Politics

Hillary Clinton could lose her chance to face-off Donald Trump in the general election if she takes her eye off Bernie Sanders in the upcoming California primary on June 7. An influx of voter registration threatens to derail Ms Clinton’s lead over Bernie Sanders. A win for Sanders in the June 7 presidential primary contest in California would give him the credibility to flip Clinton’s super delegates to his side at the Democratic National Convention in July.

Israeli military forces have reportedly arrested a correspondent for Iran’s Al-Alam news channel in the occupied Golan Heights. According to a police spokemsan, 43 year old Bassam al-Safadi, a resident of the Druze village of Majdal Shams has been accused of “publishing statements in support of terror groups and incitement to violence or terror”.

A new Donald has entered the Republican presidential race; Donald Eugene Lowe, a “real” Donald from Texas. Conservative Republican Donald Eugene Lowe will be officially challenging Donald Trump at the convention in July. Donald Trump may no longer be the GOP presumptive presidential nominee. PR Newswire reports: “It’s been done before and it can be done again,” Lowe says. Lowe recalls that at the 1880 Republican National Convention that when Secretary of the Treasury, John Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant or James G. Blaine could get enough votes to secure the nomination, delegates chose James A.

After 15 years of claiming that Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible and acted alone, high-ranking Americans are publicly blaming Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 terrorist attacks…. and now Saudi Arabia is publicly blaming the United States. However, according to investigative journalist Wayne Masden, it was American neocons, Saudi Arabia and Israel that successfully pulled off the September 11 attacks. They are now infighting to the point that the layers of secrecy surrounding the crime of the 21st century, are starting to peel away.

Max Boot offers some typically wrongheaded thoughts on America’s foreign wars. He alleges that the U.S. has a habit of losing “won” wars:

What do all these betrayals of trust have in common? A failure by the American population and politicians to sustain a long-term commitment that would build on battlefield gains [bold mine-DL].