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Iran Announces Plan To Stay In Syria As Pompeo Issues Unprecedented Threats
Iran Announces Plan To Stay In Syria As Pompeo Issues Unprecedented Threats After last Thursday’s relatively brief meeting in Sochi between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad wherein Putin stressed that it is necessary for all “foreign forces” to withdraw from Syria, there’s been much speculation over what Putin actually meant. Many were quick […]
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions
Pompeo Lands In Saudi, Immediately Calls For New Iran Sanctions Well that didn’t take long. Just two days after being sworn in as US Secretary of State, former CIA Director Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday on a hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East to reinvigorate support for new sanctions against Iran. As […]
The Coming Crisis with Iran
The Coming Crisis with Iran Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 With the appointments of Mike Pompeo as secretary of state and John Bolton as national security adviser, Donald Trump has signaled his preparedness by the May 12deadline to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and ramp up pressure on North Korea if it […]
US New Moves: War with Iran May Be Much Closer Than We Think
US New Moves: War with Iran May Be Much Closer Than We Think The US does not intend to end or even curtail its military presence in Iraq (as well as Syria) after the defeat of the Islamic State. It is planning to turn Iraq into a major theater of confrontation with Iran. There are […]
Trump White House Weighing Plans For Private Spies to Counter “Deep State” Enemies
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WEIGHING PLANS FOR PRIVATE SPIES TO COUNTER “DEEP STATE” ENEMIES THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is considering a set of proposals developed by Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a retired CIA officer — with assistance from Oliver North, a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal — to provide CIA Director Mike Pompeo and […]
Taking Aim at Wikileaks
Taking Aim at Wikileaks Various scribbles have started to pepper the conversation started by the adventurous Mike Pompeo after he branded WikiLeaks a hostile intelligence agency before the Center for Strategic and International Studies. (This would have generated a wry smile of content from Julian Assange.) The words of the Central Intelligence Agency chief are […]
Is the CIA Writing Legislation for the U.S. Congress?
Is the CIA Writing Legislation for the U.S. Congress? Today I want to highlight a troubling bill moving through Congress that seems inspired by a thuggish, authoritarian speech given earlier this year by CIA head Mike Pompeo. I found that speech so disturbing at the time, I wrote an entire piece taking it apart. Below […]
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech
Prosecution of Assange is Persecution of Free Speech US authorities are reported to have prepared charges to seek the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. This overreach of US government toward a publisher, whose principle is aligned with the U.S. Constitution, is another sign of a crumbling façade of democracy. The Justice Department in the […]
WikiLeaks Issues Response To CIA Director Mike Pompeo
WikiLeaks Issues Response To CIA Director Mike Pompeo The feud between Julian Assange and Wikiealks is growing. After being blasted by new CIA Director Mike Pompeo yesterday as a “hostile non-state intelligence service,” late on Thursday Julian Assange responded on Twitter by trolling the CIA, the “state non-intelligence agency,” over its own roles in producing […]
