Tag: Trump

Moscow (RT): A US appeals court has denied the Trump administration’s request to reverse Friday’s order by a federal judge temporarily lifting the travel...

Jim W. Dean - Of all the UN nations only the US has an official preemptive strike doctrine, which was pushed through, post Cold War, by the NeoCons with a Bill Clinton that was fully on board a uni-polar US world dominated geopolitical situation.

Jim W. Dean - Missed in all the reporting was a federal judge in Washington preparing to issue a bench warrant to have Trump arrested by US Marshals for criminal contempt due to defying a court order.

When he took oath as the American president, it was expected that being the president of the superpower, Trump would soften his attitude and would behave with responsibility.

Washington’s UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Until people of Crimea, the 95% that voted to leave Ukraine, are forced to rejoin and be slaughtered?  Wait, I...

  US President Donald Trump has struck a tougher line with Israel, warning that building new settlements or expanding existing ones "may not be helpful"...

The new US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has strongly condemned Russia’s “aggressive actions” in Ukraine even as the administration of US...

Federal health officials may be about to get greatly enhanced powers to quarantine people, as part of an ongoing effort to stop outbreaks of...

  ... by Gordon Duff, VT Senior Editor ___________ To the Trump administration, the photo above has to seem more than dramatic.  This is the only photo...

Ewen MacAskill, Spencer Ackerman and Jason Burke The US military has launched an investigation into the scale of civilian casualties in a botched special forces...

A foreign-backed Syrian opposition figure says members of his militant group are training with US troops in preparation for a joint operation to recapture Daesh-held Raqqah.

US President Donald Trump threatened to send troops to Mexico during a phone conversation with President Enrique Pena Nieto last week, says a report.

In a tense telephone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, President Donald Trump has reportedly accused Canberra of trying to export terrorists to the US, pledging to review a "dumb deal" to take in hundreds of asylum seekers.

A five-year-old boy was detained for several hours at Washington Dulles International Airport on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order...

Though I am not sure why, many Americans have forgotten that we are all from somewhere else, that we share more than what divides us. I am saddened about how this nation has forgotten its values and for what we allegedly stand for as Americans.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is vowing legal action after the US Army Corps of Engineers was directed to complete an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline project. The tribe insists the environmental impact statement should be completed first.

Less than one-third of Americans believe US President Donald Trump’s travel ban targeting seven Muslim-majority countries makes them "more safe," a new poll shows.

In what an official said was the first military raid carried out under President Donald Trump, two Americans were killed in Yemen on Sunday — one a member of SEAL Team 6 and the other the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born al Qaeda leader who himself was killed in a U.S. strike five years ago.

Editor's note:  What if Trump, Bannon, Sessions, DeVos and the handlers, Netanyahu, Sater and those we don't know, were all criminally insane, leading a...

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Arab and Kurdish forces in northern Syria, says it has received armored vehicles from the US, indicating increased support from Washington under the administration of President Donald Trump.

US under Trump among external threats to EU – council president Tusk Published time: 31 Jan, 2017 12:25Edited time: 31 European Council President Donald Tusk...

  US President Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims and his other anti-Muslim actions show that he represents the same forces that carried out the September...

US President Donald Trump’s lobbying ban sounds good on the surface but is not likely to make a difference since his has put “the bad people” in charge of everything, says Gordon Duff

By RICHARD W. PAINTER and NORMAN L. EISENJAN. President Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries is being...

Jim W. Dean - Trump's team of political operatives on his Whitehouse staff just delivered a lasting deep wound to his administration for their amateurish execution of their proposed review of the Visa issuing procedures.

Jim W. Dean - I thank Uri for choosing the King Kong satire title rather than King Dong, so I did not have to censor. After all, we are a family magazine with standards to uphold.

US President Donald Trump's idea to build safe zones in Syria has provoked mixed emotions in Ankara. Speaking to Sputnik, Turkish security analyst Dr. Nihat Ali Ozcan suggested that the introduction of safe zones in Syria would tip the balance in favor of the Syrian armed opposition.

US President Donald Trump should be blocked from making his planned state visit to Britain as long as his "Muslim ban" policy remains in place, says UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

When Secretary of State Tillerson fired Tom Countryman, we have no idea why but here at VT, Countryman is well known.

Gordon Duff - Trump calls on making resisting arrest a "hate crime" against police then asks supporters to infiltrate demonstrations and spit on police.

Jim W. Dean - Everyone in the oval office knew that the person on the other end of the line had more geopolitical experience than all of them put together.

An ex-KGB chief suspected of helping the former MI6 spy Christopher Steele to compile his dossier on Donald Trump may have been murdered by the Kremlin and his death covered up.

Gordon Duff - the Syrians coming to the US are victims of American war crimes, we did it. These people are selected and chosen by us, they go through humiliating and unimaginable screening and Donnie Trump knows all of this.

The ball is now in their court !

“Jerusalem for All” would keep the city unified under international agreement, and preserve the unique quality of the city, and its special status as a holy city for Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Jim W. Dean - Trump bails out during his first week in office on his first foreign policy plank by having General Mattis reassure Germany and France not to worry about any major NATO changes. This act puts all of Trump's other foreign policy statements "in play".

Jim W. Dean - Has a neo-Genghis Khan and army descended upon Washington? If so, we will not have to wait long to get confirmation. Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress will now have blank check power to rule America, something we have historically preferred to avoid with either party.

Jim W. Dean - The concept of Obama thinking he was going to get the TTP trade deal concluded in total secrecy was always a mindblower for me. Hopefully he can tell us all about it in his book.

While many factors probably contributed to the unexpected victory of Donald Trump, much of the blame has been attributed to the alleged hacks by the Russians and the release of the emails by Wikileaks.

Trump has a pro-rich agenda and besides him all his cabinet ministers are millionaires who have no idea about the pangs of poverty and deprivation. He is therefore not likely to touch any of the real destroyers of the US economic health and élan and as such hope of making America great again will be illusory.