Washington D.C. (RPI) – Trump’s opponents on both sides of the Congressional aisle don’t seem so enthusiastic about challenging the president when he actually does abuse his Constitutional authority to pursue a more aggressive policy overseas. Congress, and particularly the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, seems determined to see the endContinue Reading
Caracas (VZA) – The Trump administration announced new sanctions Friday targeting five high-profile figures in the Venezuelan government and security services. The sanctioned officials are Manuel Quevedo, oil minister and president of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, National Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) Director Manuel Cristopher Figuera, SEBIN First Commissioner Hildemano Rodriguez, Military Counter-IntelligenceContinue Reading
Havana (GPA) – In a rare interview with English media from Cuba, the leaders of Colombia’s ELN pledged to be “first in line” to help repel any US attack on Venezuela. Late last month many were stunned when the internet noticed Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton leaving a White House briefingContinue Reading
Ankara (MEE) – Turkey will still launch an offensive against Syrian Kurdish forces if the United States delays the withdrawal of its troops from the war-torn country, its foreign minister has said. “If the [pullout] is put off with ridiculous excuses like Turks are massacring Kurds, which do not reflect the reality, weContinue Reading
Tehran (AHT) – The US had a great deal going from 1953 to 1979 with the Shah of Iran. For 25 years Iran was a cornerstone of the US usurping the British Empire in the Middle East, following World War Two. Iran was a base for projecting US power inContinue Reading
Damascus (MP) – Understanding the significance of the Golan Heights is in many ways key to understanding why the Syrian conflict was engineered by foreign powers in the first place. The state of Israel seems to share at least some of the responsibility for the latest shift of U.S. SyriaContinue Reading
Washington (GPA) – Contradicting Donald Trump, the President’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton has given signs of a potential indefinite delay in the US withdrawal from Syria. Speaking in Jerusalem on Sunday, Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser, John Bolton seemed to walk back the US President’s plans to withdraw US forces fromContinue Reading
Tehran (GPA) – Washington’s pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal and subsequently renewed sanctions come as US National Security Advisor appointee John Bolton’s existential objective to destroy Iran by any means necessary even if it means leveraging the soft power of a cultish death squad. US President Donald TrumpContinue Reading
Tehran (GPA) – Terrorists in Iran launched an attack on a parade on Saturday killing 25 — including a four-year-old girl. Unsurprisingly, the group claiming responsibility for the massacre has links to foreign entities in Saudi Arabia and their allies. Also on Saturday, Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, spoke atContinue Reading
Washington D.C. (AHT) – Israel and the United States have created a joint group a few months ago, through which they aim to destabilize Iran from the inside, sources reported. Israeli National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and his US counterpart John Bolton met recently in Washington to develop a strategy to putContinue Reading