“This New York lawyer says he has found a link between Saudi officials and the hijackers. The U.S. government refuses to do anything about it.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/04/saudi-arabia-911-lawyer-214996
“It’s easy to explain, once you understand that there is no such thing as foreign policy: all policy is domestic.”
Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/04/11/behind-trump-syria-turnabout/
“In the wake of the terror attacks in England, France, Germany and elsewhere, can we finally admit that the war on terror is an utter and complete failure? So if the war on terror has failed, what should we do to stop terrorists?”
“Indeed, the U.S. has carried out regime change in the Middle East and North Africa for six decades.”
“In October, Trump blasted then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton‘s position on Syria — that the U.S. military should take out al-Assad’s airfields, the exact type of strike Trump ordered Thursday — by saying attacking a Russian-backed government could start World War III.”
Read more: https://mic.com/articles/173471/trump-world-war-iii-attacking-syria-wwiii-ww3
“The YPG is not your typical ethnic or sectarian faction. Its fighters are loyal to an imprisoned guerrilla leader who was once a communist but now espouses the same kind of secular, feminist, anarcho-libertarianism as Noam Chomsky or the activists of Occupy Wall Street. The Kurds are implementing these ideals in Rojava, and that has attracted a ragtag legion of leftist internationals, like Belden, who have come from nearly every continent to help the YPG beat ISIS and establish an anarchist collective amid the rubble of the war – a ‘stateless democracy’ equally opposed to Islamic fundamentalism and capitalist modernity. They call it the Rojava Revolution, and they want you.”
“Trump has been saying that NATO members need to pony up their required contributions to NATO. Doesn’t all that seem a bit illogical? After all, why force taxpayers, both American and European, to continue contributing their hard-earned money to an entity that is obsolete, outdated, outmoded, and old-fashioned? But as we have seen with bureaucracies, once you bring them into existence they sometimes become like a permanent cancer on the body politic.”
Read more: http://www.fff.org/2017/02/24/part-obsolete-trump-not-understand/
“‘Snowden is a spy who should be executed,’ the President posted on Twitter in 2013, and CIA Director Mike Pompeo has also suggested that Snowden should be put to death. The White House did not immediately comment on the NBC report, but the Justice Department told the network that it would welcome the return of Snowden. Trump himself, who has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, has questioned the economic restrictions and said in January, ‘If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing some really great things.'”
“A joint U.S.-Japanese statement said the U.S. commitment to defend Japan through nuclear and conventional military capabilities is unwavering. The statement amounted to a victory for Abe, who came to Washington wanting to develop a sense of trust and friendship with the new U.S. president and send a message that the decades-old alliance is unshakeable. Japan got continued U.S. backing for its dispute with Beijing over islands in the East China Sea that China also claims. The statement said the two leaders affirmed that Article 5 of the U.S.-Japan security treaty covered the islands, known as the Senkaku in Japan and the Diaoyu in China.”
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-japan-idUSKBN15P17E
“In comments published in the European press on Tuesday, Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro said the ‘grossly undervalued’ euro served as a currency for Germany alone, allowing the country to ‘exploit’ the United States and others. On Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary-designate Steven Mnuchin softened the traditional U.S. ‘strong dollar’ mantra, suggesting that the dollar’s current strength may be working against what has become perhaps the administration’s central economic priority: reviving U.S. manufacturing and exports.”
Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-germany-analysis-idUKKBN15F2WP