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Iran’s Leadership Must Decide “If They Want Their People To Eat” – Pompeo
Iran’s Leadership Must Decide “If They Want Their People To Eat” – Pompeo Less than a week after US Secretary of State Secretary Mike Pompeo told Fox News Sunday that the “Iranians are responsible for the starvation’ of Yemeni civilians” he’s again issued hugely provocative words, telling the BBC during an interview that Iranian “leadership has to make a decision […]
Iran Shuts Off Oil Tanker Tracking System As US Sanctions Start
Iran Shuts Off Oil Tanker Tracking System As US Sanctions Start The US on Monday (Nov 5) is reimposing disciplinary measures targeting Iran’s oil, shipping, insurance, and banking sectors in what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called “the toughest sanctions ever placed” against Iran. In response, Tehran has reportedly turned off all oil tanker […]
Saudi Arabia Answers Pompeo’s Call For Yemen Ceasefire By Ramping Up Airstrikes
Saudi Arabia Answers Pompeo’s Call For Yemen Ceasefire By Ramping Up Airstrikes The Saudi Air Force has unleashed a massive attack across the Sana’a Governorate over the last 48 hours, reports Middle East-based Al Masdar News citing Yemeni sources on the ground. This appears to be the Saudi response to the U.S. call for a ceasefire “in the […]
Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie?
Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie? The Saudi “investigation” into the Khashoggi murder, conducted on the demand of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is not yet complete. But preliminary conclusions have been announced in the Saudi media. Turns out (surprise, surprise!) Khashoggi died while in a choke-hold following a fist-fight […]
War Plans on Iran Mean Trump and Saudis Coordinating Cover-up of Khashoggi Killing
War Plans on Iran Mean Trump and Saudis Coordinating Cover-up of Khashoggi Killing Finally, nearly three weeks after what most of the world suspected to be a foul murder, the Saudi regime has officially admitted that Jamal Khashoggi was killed in its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. No sooner had the Saudis issued their latest lie […]
Be Skeptical Whenever The Political/Media Class Converges On A Single Narrative
Be Skeptical Whenever The Political/Media Class Converges On A Single Narrative The Trump administration has ended its weeks-long silence on the disappearance of the Saudi Arabian Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Following a briefing from Secretary of State Pompeo who has just returned from a visit to Riyadh and Ankara, the president has said that […]
Pompeo Vows “Series Of Actions” Against Venezuela’s Maduro “In The Coming Days”
Pompeo Vows “Series Of Actions” Against Venezuela’s Maduro “In The Coming Days” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued an incredible statement to Fox News on Friday, vowing to take “series of actions” in “the coming days” against Nicolas Maduro’s government in Venezuela. The threat was couched in terms of being in the “best interest” of Venezuelans, […]
How US Government Relies on Lying Media
How US Government Relies on Lying Media On Friday, August 31st, the neoconservative US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “The 3 million Syrians who have already been forced out of their homes and are now in #Idlib, will suffer from this aggression. Not good. The world is watching.” By “this aggression,” he was referring to the […]
Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone?
Can’t We Just Leave Syria Alone? Assad was supposed to be gone already. President Obama thought it would be just another “regime change” operation and perhaps Assad would end up like Saddam Hussein or Yanukovych. Or maybe even Gaddafi. But he was supposed to be gone. The US spent billions to get rid of him […]
North Korea Blasts “Double-Dealing” US After Pompeo’s Canceled Trip
North Korea Blasts “Double-Dealing” US After Pompeo’s Canceled Trip The war drums are starting to beat again. The North Korean media lashed out at the “double-dealing” US for “hatching a criminal plot” against Pyongyang, days after Donald Trump told Secretary of State Mike Pompe to cancel his upcoming trip to North Korea. In an editorial, […]
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The brothers’ plutocratic view of business-as-government even has a name: Pompeo. As in Mike Pompeo, the Trump regime’s latest secretary […]
Ecuador Continues Playing Hardball With Assange
Ecuador Continues Playing Hardball With Assange A day after she was elected president of the UN General Assembly, the Ecuadorian foreign minister said Julian Assange would remain incommunicado in Ecuador’s London embassy, as James Cogan explains. On Monday Ecuadorian Foreign Minister María Fernanda Espinosa was elected to a one-year term as president of the United […]
US Debating Whether To Expand Military Presence In Yemen
US Debating Whether To Expand Military Presence In Yemen As if the US hasn’t already done enough to exacerbate the humanitarian crisis raging in Yemen, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the Trump Administration is considering a request by the United Arab Emirates for “direct US support” as a coalition of Sunni majority nations […]
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just like Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia in […]
End of unipolar world? New world order evolves in response to US demands on Iran
End of unipolar world? New world order evolves in response to US demands on Iran © Getty Images If Mike Pompeo’s ultimatum to Iran, after US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, was fulfilled it would inflict economic warfare on the country and set up Tehran for failure while reasserting a US-led unipolar world order. […]
