Corporate Media Sounds Drums of War. Russians Will Greet Us as Liberators!

Declassified US Intelligence Report on Russia: a Critical Review

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released a declassified report concerning Russia and the 2016 US presidential elections.  The report is titled, “Assessing Russian Activities and ( Read more... )

Wall Street Neoliberal Democrats Awesome Plan for 2020: ObaHillaBot 2.0! Orange Mutant Monster Wins Re-Election.

Which Part of the 1930s Did You Not Get? Americans Finally Learn To Cooperate On A National Suicide Project
What you assist... you will becomeAmericans have, in recent years, managed to secure for themselves a false and therefore ( Read more... )

Gary Johnson Couldn’t Name North Korea’s Leader, Kim Jong-Un

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential nominee, can’t seem to catch a break.

After a couple of very public mistakes, including asking an interviewer what Aleppo was and the time he struggled to name a foreign leader he admired, the former governor of New Mexico on Wednesday had ( Read more... )

US presidential candidate Gary Johnson fails to name a foreign leader he admires

Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, asked during a televised town hall meeting to name a foreign leader he admires, struggled to come up with a single one, saying that he was having an “Aleppo moment ( Read more... )

As a delicate ceasefire appeared to be holding, the Syrian military said an airstrike Saturday by the US-led coalition hit a regime military position in eastern Syria.

The US military said the coalition thought it was hitting ISIS militants, but hours later said the airstrike may have struck Syrian soldiers.

A senior administration official told ( Read more... )

This is the Newsweek article I posted about early this morning. In that post, blackjedii kindly added the link to the full article when it became available, but I feel that it's important enough to warrant its own post.

How the Trump Organization's Foreign Business Ties Could Upend U.S. National Security

Updated | If Donald Trump is elected president, ( Read more... )

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OP: This article was published in August, so whenever you see "next month" in the text, mentally substitute "this month," lol.Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are scheduled to appear on the same stage early next month at a “commander-in-chief forum” devoted to national security, military affairs and veterans issues ( Read more... )

[O.P.: I'm too tired to do Shakespearean insults tonight, so I've settled for changing the "T" name to "Drumpf" (except in the case of direct quotes).]

MEXICO CITY - Donald Drumpf told Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday he would build a border wall to keep illegal migrants out if he wins the U.S. presidency, but Pena Nieto held ( Read more... )

A frequent weapon for Democrats in the 2016 election is to publicly malign those they regard as critics and adversaries as Russia sympathizers, Putin stooges, or outright agents of the Kremlin. To put it mildly, this is not a new tactic in U.S. political discourse, and it’s worth placing it in historical context. That’s particularly true given how ( Read more... )