Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org,
Hillary Clinton-aligned Super PAC, Correct the Record, is taking a page out of Vladimir Putin’s playbook by employing a $1 million dollar professional internet troll army to build a paid, positive consensus about the Clinton campaign. The effort, called “Breaking Barriers 2016,” claims:
Who could have seen that coming? It appears President Obama's ill-advised Op-Ed and visit to The United Kingdom, exhorting his "friends" to 'just say no' to Brexit and vote democratically to stay part of an undemocratic superstate, has backfired for the establishment. A poll by YouGov suggests that Obama's high profile intervention in the UK's EU Referendum failed with 65% of Brits seeing his comments were not "appropriate."
Emma Ashford rejects the idea that Saudi Arabia is a “good ally” for the U.S.:
These tensions reflect a basic reality: Saudi Arabia may once have been a good ally, but today the relationship is toxic. Saudi actions are more often negative for U.S. policy objectives than positive. Rather than repairing the relationship, U.S. policymakers should reduce support for Saudi Arabia’s regional agenda.
The ever-expanding war on ISIS just got a little larger:
President Barack Obama said Monday he will send as many as 250 additional military personnel to Syria, significantly increasing the U.S. presence there in an effort to help local forces and extend recent gains against Islamic State.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says that he can not rule out a combat role for British troops in Libya. British ground troops, supported by the Air Force and Navy, may go to Libya to take action against ISIS in the future, Hammond said, just days after telling MPs that no such plans were in the works. RT reports: Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond made his remarks in a Telegraph interview on Sunday. Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) are seeking to turn Libya into a “bolthole” for launching attacks on mainland Europe or Western ships at sea, Hammond argued.