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President Trump’s ‘Friends’ in Saudi Arabia

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“Trump and his unabashedly Iranophobic generals have allowed the United States to become a patsy for Saudi Arabia, actively abetting or tacitly endorsing MBS’s ambitions. Yet whatever the administration’s purported intent, throwing in with the Crown Prince will only exacerbate the disorder that previous U.S. administrations have done so much to create.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/president-trumps-friends-in-saudi-arabia/

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Pentagon’s African Command: “We Don’t Consider You a Legitimate Journalist”

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“The command has deflected questions about the killing in Mali, offered murky and shifting explanations of the attack in Niger, and cleared U.S. personnel of wrongdoing in Somalia before launching a new investigation into the killings. All of this comes as the Defense Department as a whole has become less transparent and accessible, according to numerous journalists who cover U.S. national security. At the same time, according to the Pentagon’s Inspector General, there has been a rise in complaints of misconduct by senior officials, as well as reprisals against whistleblowers.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/13/we-dont-consider-you-a-legitimate-journalist-how-i-got-blacklisted-by-the-pentagons-africa-command/

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Turkey vows to ‘drown’ US-backed insurgent force

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“‘The United States has admitted that it has created a terrorist force along our country’s border. Our duty is to drown this army of terror before it is born,’ Erdogan said in a speech in Ankara.  The U.S.-led coalition declined to comment on Erdogan’s threats.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/us-coalition-230-cadets-recruited-for-syria-border-force/2018/01/15/092bea6a-f9d4-11e7-9b5d-bbf0da31214d_story.html

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Alfred McCoy: Tweeting While Rome Burns

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“In just one extraordinary year, Trump has destabilized the delicate duality that has long been the foundation for U.S. foreign policy: favoring war over diplomacy, the Pentagon over the State Department, and narrow national interest over international leadership. But in a globalizing world interconnected by trade, the Internet, and the rapid proliferation of nuclear-armed missiles, walls won’t work. There can be no Fortress America.”

Read more: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176373/tomgram%3A_alfred_mccoy%2C_tweeting_while_rome_burns/

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Korea: Peace Breaks Out, Despite McMaster

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“Do Ryom and Kim really deserve to be vaporized because of a war that ended nearly 70 years ago?”

Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/01/10/korea-peace-breaks/

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Did secret deal let hundreds of ISIS fighters flee Raqqa?

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“The BBC reports 250 ISIS fighters were permitted to leave Raqqa with 3,500 family members to ISIS-controlled territory. The U.S. and British-led coalition reportedly knew about the deal brokered by Syrian Democratic Forces and monitored the exodus. Quentin Sommerville of our partners at BBC report.”

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Pat Buchanan: What Is America’s Mission Now?

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“The [Iran] episode exposes a malady of American foreign policy. It lacks consistency, coherence and moral clarity, treats friends and adversaries by separate standards, and is reflexively interventionist.  Thus has America lost much of the near-universal admiration and respect she enjoyed at the close of the Cold War.  This hubristic generation has kicked it all away.”

Read more: http://buchanan.org/blog/americas-mission-now-128460

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Eric Margolis: Trump’s Failed Coup In Iran

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“Listen to the state-‘guided’ US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran.  The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran’s spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.’ Trump tweeted that Iranians were finally rising up against what he called their hated, brutal regime.  Talk about manufactured news.”

Read more: https://ericmargolis.com/2018/01/trumps-failed-coup-in-iran/

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Justin Raimondo: Why the Korean ‘Crisis’ Is Completely Phony

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“South Korea’s interest is to a) avoid war with the North, and b) restart peace negotiations with Pyongyang and move toward fulfilling the promise of reunification. Both countries have ministries devoted to reunification and there is much political capital to be gained if progress can be made along this path.  The fact is that Washington is the third man out on this date.”

Read more: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2018/01/08/korean-crisis-completely-phony/

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The British Empire in Yemen

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“One of the reasons that Americans are unable to draw the parallels between Great Britain and the United States is that the U.S. version of empire hasn’t followed the British model. Instead of converting foreign lands into colonies, the U.S. government has followed the Soviet Union’s model of empire that was established in Eastern Europe. It uses local proxies or ‘puppets’ to serve as agents for the U.S. government, just as the Soviets did in Eastern European countries. This has enabled the United States to maintain the façade of supporting ‘independent’ regimes in the countries it controls, which just happen to ‘invite’ the United States to maintain military bases in their countries.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/10/british-empire-yemen/

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