Monthly Archives: May 2018

Senate votes to stop debate then votes 54-45 to confirm Gina Haspel as CIA director – By Robert Willmann

Posted on May 17, 2018 by willmann

Moving quickly to prevent further opposition to the nomination of Gina Haspel as CIA Director, the Senate Intelligence Committee on 16 May (yesterday) gave her a positive vote of 10-5 in a closed meeting to move the nomination out of … Continue reading →

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RUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 17 MAY 2018 (Patrick Armstrong)

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Patrick Armstrong

PUTIN'S PRIORITIES. For those who think Putin dreams every night of conquering Estonia or re-creating the Empire, here's his actual todo list: population growth; life expectancy; real wage growth; reduce poverty; housing; technology; economic growth; high-productivity export-oriented businesses. What Moscow … Continue reading →

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“The president is not CinC of the US.” Lang

Posted on May 17, 2018 by Pat Lang

"US media figures are in the habit of referring to the president of the United States as the “Commander in Chief of the United States” People who do that badly misunderstand the structure of US government as described in the … Continue reading →

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Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Gives the Commencement Address at VMI – By Robert Willmann

Posted on May 16, 2018 by willmann

Today, 16 May, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson gave the commencement speech at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI)– http://www.vmi.edu/news/headlines/2017-2018/confront-the-crisis-in-ethics-and-integrity.php https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRtsnJhHEfk Tillerson was president of Exxon Mobil Company starting in 2004 and was both chairman and chief operating officer from … Continue reading →

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Israel, Like the Nazis, Values “Postenpflicht” by Publius Tacitus

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Balint Somkuti

While you might be inclined to think that my title is a cheap shot, it is not. It is a disgusting reality. Postenpflicht was part of a written order for the SS guards in German concentration camps during World War … Continue reading →

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Mookie and Nasrullah, a tale of two Shia

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Pat Lang

(editorial comment) Muqtada al-Sadr.  When he led the Army of the Mahdi against US occupation of Iraq, American troops called him Mookie.  He was a nasty fat fils a papa and spawn of a distinguished Shia scholar.  In those days … Continue reading →

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“U.S. Marines Shot to Kill” by Richard Sale

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Pat Lang

With Iran back in the news, I found this old file of mine from 1981. Thanks to The Washington Post, in 1976 I spent eight or nine weeks in Iran gathering notes for six front-page articles.  The discoveries I made … Continue reading →

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If you cut us do we not bleed?

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Pat Lang

  "Israel’s former national security advisor and a senior fellow at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies, Yaakov Amidror, said that the people around the world condemning the violence need to understand this isn’t like a protest in Europe. “They … Continue reading →

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IMO there will be no peace for Israel … Republished 14 May, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Pat Lang

Trump thinks he is a friend of Israel?  He has just screwed Israel out of any chance for a peace agreement with the Palestinians.  Urged on by the arch Zionists like Kushner he came to believe that the status of … Continue reading →

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Keep an eye on the FBI or CIA spy inside the Trump campaign – By Robert Willmann

Posted on May 12, 2018 by willmann

Bubbling up in the last several days is a story separate from but perhaps more highly charged and incriminating than the surveillance of Carter Page through a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant that followed Page into the Donald Trump campaign … Continue reading →

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