Tag: Trump

Jim W. Dean - McCain throws down the gauntlet to Trump and his brilliant White House team to put up or shut up on their charge that the Obama administration legally or illegally wiretapped Trump and his campaign.

Former prime minister Ehud Barak cautioned against taking American President Donald Trump at his word Monday, as the US administration’s special envoy was set to land in the country for the first time.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lobbying work for the Turkish government involved payments to several former FBI officials and a retired admiral who served in a top intelligence role for the joint chiefs of staff.

Two key players in the region actively fighting against the jihadists, Russia and Iran, have not been invited to the gathering because, according to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, "they’re not part of the global coalition."

Editor's note:  Ali was dragged out of line, where he was accompanied by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz  mind you, to be "leaned on" because...

Jim W. Dean - The Theater of the absurd returned to Washington last weekend, or perhaps it never left. The FBI's James Comey went to the Capitol Thursday to brief the top Senate and House Intel Committee Congressmen in a secure basement facility.

American president licensed to run brothels across China with his own "gun toting pimp army" of bodyguards

Barbara Honegger says the Jeff Sessions "lied to Congress" scandal may be the beginning of the end for the Trump Administration...because Congressional intelligence committee members may be producing evidence that Christopher Steele's allegations about are true.

PressTV discusses border issues with VT writer, musician, and artist Johnny Punish

We add "Petraeus" to the list, one he may be head of, "blackmailed Americans working for foreign intelligence agencies. To this list which includes a president

 Lawrence Douglas For all his inconstancy of character, Donald Trump is a master...

US President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order on immigration banning citizens of six Muslim-majority countries from entering the US, but removing Iraq from the original list.

Jim W. Dean - Trump really is losing his cool. The intercepts he is referring to show he has not grasped that when the NSA and FBI are monitoring foreign communications, which only requires picking up one foreign party, the other can be a US citizen where there is not a violation as an "inadvertent collection".

 Trump and his military planning chief, General Jared Cohen, have authorized US Special Operations Teams, including Delta and US Navy SEALS, to operate inside...

The Trump administration has a plan to extend the war in Syria.

Gordon Duff - I hate writing this. I just finished explaining Kevin's piece on Korea and just finished talking with Jimmie. I am not allowed to mention who I talked with last night but the NSA can check their recordings.

Jonathan Freedland Who’s the villain here? Naturally our rage focuses on Donald Trump, a pantomime baddie drawn, as he would put it, from central casting. But behind...

Jim W. Dean - From a long-term Intel perspective, we knew that an economically successful China would eventually be tagged as a "threat", and the US dogs of war would eventually be sent to do some 21st century gun-boat diplomacy.

Interviewed from his retirement home, Abe Foxman waxed apoplectic, saying "Trump should be ashamed of himself..."

Jim W. Dean - We had Gordon to roast the Prez last night over his Santa Claus with the magic sleigh speech that had endless goodies for everybody, all for free.

US Sets Up Military Base in Syrian Manbij to 'Defend It From Turkish Attack' The fall of al Bab, more a "change of flags" exercise,...

Editor's note:  When Israel tried to set up Syria by planing evidence of the use of poison gas, Israel aided by Ukraine, Georgia and...

Donald Trump’s oft repeated campaign promise to build a wall is not only not advisable, it’s a bad idea.

F. William Engdahl - A strategic pivot is taking place to build a war coalition for US control of the oil and gas of the Middle East. It is not about “peace” in cooperation with Russia in Syria, because Washington must break the Eurasian triangle or face superpower twilight. That is what the entire Kissinger-Trump project is about.

BY JULIE K. BROWN “Why at this time did there have to be this stupid mission when it wasn’t even barely a week into his...

Mathew Maavak — Evidently, Trump had either miscalculated or misrepresented the extent and nature of America’s greatest existential threat. Instead of draining the swamp, the White House...

Tensions between Washington and Beijing and the uncertainty of US President Donald Trump's policy create conditions for tighter cooperation between China and Latin America. ©...

Bill O’Reilly and Fox News have been lambasted for providing fake news after interviewing a “Swedish Defense and National Security advisor,” in relation to Trump’s #LastNightInSweden gaffe, who no one had ever heard of.

Gordon Duff - First it was Senator John McCain, his first illegal trip to Syria since he met with ISIS leader Baghdadi in 2014. Then General Joseph L. Votel arrives and has meetings as well.

  A proposal by the administration of US President Donald Trump to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps a “terrorist organization” has reportedly stalled over...

Jim W. Dean - Well, it looks like the grownups have won another one with the new White House staff, with its backing off putting the terrorist tag on Iran's Republican Guard BEFORE seeking feedback from the professionals.

...by  Gordon Duff, VT Senior Editor In a series of explosively bizarre abuses, Trump has "gone to the mattresses" not only against the press, but...

US President Donald Trump decided to boost profits for private prisons by rescinding an order that limited the construction and use of such facilities,...

Military vehicles, bulldozers and riot-geared police have moved into the Oceti Sakowin camp near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota, intended to clear out the remaining protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline.

US new President Donald Trump confused the Swedes and Pakistanis in particular and the people of other countries of the world in general by confusing the terror attack in Pakistan’s town of Sehwan with Sweden.

Jim W. Dean - Trump is playing the spoiler by demanding that EU members fund their own defense costs so they are more likely to feel the political pain of their own voters over bellicose war rhetoric over the make-believe Russian bear aggression plans.

More troops in Poland and more ICBMs fired off China won't cover for Trump going full "Alex Jones" and then some.  Congrats for making...

The owner of a company which provided security for Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf business has been found guilty of a £400,000 VAT fraud. Kevin McKay's...

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor During his Florida "I was run out of Washington on my ear" rally, Donald Trump outlined his plan, worked out...