Mike Pompeo: Bully Boy!
Stephen LendmanPompeo - The same applies to John Bolton and Elliott Abrams, a warmongering trio hostile to world peace and stability, a menace to humanity, a psychopathologically impaired troika.
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Contemptuous Undemocratic Dems
Stephen LendmanUSA - Dems controlling the House Judiciary Committee would be ridiculed as laughing stocks if their actions to continue Russiagate witch hunt proceedings weren't so serious -- their actions politicized, not legitimate, contemptuous of justice under
The Lies That Form Our Consciousness and False Historical Awareness
• https://www.paulcraigroberts.org,Paul Craig RobertMy generation associated dystopias, such as George Orwell's 1984, with the Soviet Union, a country in which explanations were controlled and criticism of Stalin would land a person in the Gulag.
US Warns UK Over Huawei and 5G Wireless
• https://moneymaven.io, by MishUS Sec. of State Mike Pompeo warns the UK about 5G wireless. Pompeo threatens to end defense cooperation with the UK.
US Air Force Combat Laser Shoots Down Air Launched MissilesThe Air Force Research
• https://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangThe Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) used a ground-based version of a combat laser weapon system shoot down of multiple air-launched missiles in flight.
New Housing Data Warns The Era Of Double-Digit Home Price Gains Is Over
• https://www.zerohedge.comFollowing last month's disastrous starts and permits data, Tuesday's release of the S&P/Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index hinted at a nasty slowdown in all 20 metropolitan regions the index tracks, indicating that the era of double-digit gr
Trump and Putin Hold a 90-Minute Telephone Call, US Liberals Go Ballistic
• By Robert Bridge Strategic CultureLike a pit bull with its favorite chew toy, the Democrats refuse to abandon the debunked 'Russian collusion' script, to the point where a simple phone call between Moscow and Washington triggers rabid media hysterics.
Pretext For War- Pompeo Pushes Iran To Quit Nuclear Deal
• https://www.youtube.comPompeo and Bolton are hoping that one of two false pretexts will push Trump to war on Iran. First the bogus intel report from Israel that Iran was poised to attack and second the disinformation that Iran is pulling out of the JCPOA treaty. Will the n
Will the U.S. And Israel Wage A "Summer War"?
• https://www.moonofalabama.org, BJ. Swift comments at the end of the Iran JCPOA thread (emphasis added):
Mike Pompeo rejects Canada's claims to Northwest Passage as 'illegitimate'
• https://www.theguardian.com, Leyland CeccoSpeech to Arctic Council delegates prompted frustration and surprise among experts and government officials
Will the U.S. Start a War Against Iran?
• https://www.commondreams.org, by Vijay PrashadTrump--with Bolton and Pence--seek to provoke a war. These are dangerous men with a dangerous agenda.
Nearly One in Two Americans Takes Prescription Drugs
• https://www.bloombergquint.com, Shelly HaganAmericans are good at popping pills. About 46 percent of the U.S. population used one or more prescription drugs in the past 30 days, according to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics.
As Credit-Card Defaults Climb, Banks Are Hoarding The Riskiest Accounts
• https://www.zerohedge.comAs each of the seven largest credit-card issuers in the US reported a troubling jump in default rates to levels not seen in the better part of a decade, we noted last week that relaxed lending standards combined with 'Non-GAAP' FICO scores suggest th
How the American Culture of Convenience Is Killing Us
• https://www.theorganicprepper.com/american-cultureIn the United States, we are lucky to have massive convenience at our fingertips. I was talking to one of the instructors for the urban survival course, who is from Sweden, on a car ride. He was blown away by some of the things I told him about the l
Iran Retaliates To US Provocations: Threatens To Accelerate Uranium Enrichment
• https://www.zerohedge.comIran celebrated the one-year anniversary of President Trump officially withdrawing the US from the JCPOA - or the Iran deal, as it's better known - by suspending its commitments under the 2015 treaty, an unprecedented escalation from Tehran that will
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
• https://www.rutherford.org"When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public busi
Market Turmoil Continues After Liu Confirms Washington Visit; Beijing "Prepared For Talks Break
• https://www.zerohedge.comContinuing the pattern of China countering belligerent American trade rhetoric with attempts to calm its domestic market, turmoil across global markets continued Tuesday even after Beijing confirmed that Vice Premier Liu He would travel to Washington
Israel Again Bombs Gaza - But Is It "In Response"?
• https://www.moonofalabama.org, BSince Friday noon a fire exchange between besieged Palestinians in the Gaza strip and Israel escalated into heavy bombing and missile fire.
America Needs A Debt Jubilee
• www.paulcraigroberts.org, Paul Craig RobertsAs school children my friends and I were very interested in archeology and ancient civilizations. We read all the available books. My best friend intended to become an archeologist and to explore ancient ruins about which we imagined more than we act
Orwellian Cloud Hovers Over Russia-gate
• By Ray McGovern Consortiumnews.comGeorge Orwell would have been in stitches Wednesday watching Attorney General William Barr and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spar on Russia-gate. The hearing had the hallmarks of the intentionally or naively blind leading the blind with
The oil route that could be at the center of a U.S. warning of 'unrelenting force' against I
• https://www.greenwichtime.comAfter what national security adviser John Bolton called "a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings," the U.S. government said Sunday that it was deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the
US Sails 2 Destroyers Through South China Sea, Provoking Beijing As Trade Tensions Flare
• https://www.zerohedge.comThough the US military has repeatedly insisted that its 'freedom of navigation' operations in the South China Sea were totally disconnected to trade talks with China, the timing of the latest operation in which two American destroyers sailed within 1
Venezuela: Establishment Talking Points Translation Key
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Caitlin JohnstoneThings keep heating up in Venezuela, with possible "military options" now being seriously discussed at the Pentagon. And of course you know what that means!
Army's Future Attack Helicopter Zooms Ahead Of Schedule
• https://www.zerohedge.com, By Tyler DurdenLast month, we reported that the US Army was considering whether it should purchase Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) to replace its aging fleet of Boeing AH-64 Apache and Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior copters.
Another "Jolly Little War"?
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Eric MargolisSure. Let's invade Venezuela. Another jolly little war. It's full of commies and has a sea of oil. The only thing those Cuban-loving Venezuelans lack are weapons of mass destruction.
Leaked: USA's Feb 2018 Plan For A Coup In Venezuela
• https://www.zerohedge.com, by Eric ZuesseA detailed plan from "UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND" dated "23 FEBRUARY 2018" was issued with the title "PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE VENEZUELAN DICTATORSHIP 'MASTERSTROKE'" and is here presented complete.
Details Emerge on Failed US-Backed Coup in Venezuela
• https://news.antiwar.com, Jason DitzOpposition figure Lopez met with generals while under house arrest
Assange to Extradition Court: 'I Won't Surrender to the US for Doing Journalism'
• https://consortiumnews.com, By Joe LauriaJulian Assange had his first day in court on Thursday in his fight against extradition to the United States in an historic press freedom case that could have a profound impact on the future of journalism.
China Plays Defense…and Offense Against America
• https://www.newsbud.com, PETER LEEChina held its annual Belt and Road bash in Beijing. Xi Jinping carefully and effectively parried Western attacks on China's signature strategic initiative.
Does America Have an Economy or Any Sense of Reality?
• By Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.orgWe are having a propaganda barrage about the great Trump economy. We have been hearing about the great economy for a decade while the labor force participation rate declined, real family incomes stagnated, and debt burdens rose.
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