Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,
The secret is out: the ascension of Mohammad bin Salman, displacing CIA favorite Mohammad bin Nayef as Crown Prince, was in fact a white coup...
What has been an open secret across the Arab world is not a secret anymore even in the US: What happened last month in the deep recesses of the House of Saud with the ascension of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, aka MBS, was in fact a white coup.
The US president warned that Iran would face ‘new and serious consequences’ if the detained Americans were not released.
But now, as MiddleEastEye reports, Iran demanded on Saturday that the United States release Iranians detained there, a day after US President Donald Trump called on the Islamic Republic to release three US citizens.
Trump’s Appointees Worse Than Obama’s
I didn’t think it possible to assemble a less competent and more vicious government than Obama assembled, but Trump has succeeded in doing so. Stephen Lendman takes to
task the moron Trump appointed as CIA director.
Neocon CIA Director Pompeo’s Venom
by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org – Home – Stephen Lendman)
The agency operates unaccountably, its diabolical agenda incompatible with democratic values and rule of law principles.
Authored by David Stockman via LewRockwell.com,
We frequently hear people say they have nothing to hide - so surrendering privacy and constitutional rights to the Surveillance State may not be such a big deal if it helps catch a terrorist or two. But with each passing day in the RussiaGate drama we are learning that this superficial exoneration is dangerously beside the point.
Having been quite for almost 24 hours following his tweetstorm yesterday, President Trump is once again active on his Twitter account.
First, seemingly making a jab at the special counsel’s Russia investigation - following Chuck Schumer's admission that Democrats didn't lose because of the Russians - Trump scoffed at the "phony Russian Witch Hunt"...
As the phony Russian Witch Hunt continues, two groups are laughing at this excuse for a lost election taking hold, Democrats and Russians!