Politics

Former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, once considered a front runner for a senior position in the Trump administration, continues to take jabs at the President-elect.  After being forced to apologize a few weeks back for saying that Trump no longer wishes to "Drain The Swamp" in Washington D.C., Gingrich is back with new controversial comments suggesting, yet again, that the Trump administration may ultimately cave to the demands of the far left.  Per ABC News:

A leaked John Kerry audio recording reveals that President Obama requested his administration to facilitate in ISIS rising to power.  On September 30th 2016, the New York Times very quietly released a leaked audio recording of Secretary John Kerry discussing the White House’s strategy when it came to Syria and ISIS.

The Obama administration were behind the recent ban on cash in India, which saw millions of citizens take to the streets in protest.  In early November, without any warning, the Indian government banned two of the largest denomination bills at Washington’s request. Norberthaering.de reports: US-President Barack Obama has declared the strategic partnership with India a priority of his foreign policy. China needs to be reined in. In the context of this partnership, the US government’s development agency USAID has negotiated cooperation agreements with the Indian ministry of finance.

In a time of great change; upheaval of norms and establishment status quo dissolution, there is one steadfast member of the elite that the world can rely on to never change - no matter how the facts around him do. Nobel-prize-winner Paul Krugman has begun the year as he ended the last, with a New York Times' op-ed exclaiming that "America has become a 'Stan'."

A former US ambassador to the UN has urged Donald Trump to punish the Obama administration for deliberately sabotaging relations with Israel. John Bolton says that the recent UN Security Council resolution on Israel was a deliberate ploy by Obama and others to “box Donald Trump in.” Sputniknews.com reports: “I just think it was a very bad idea,” Bolton said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.