Politics

Israel Pushes Trump to Wider Wars

Robert Parry reports that “Russia-gate is empowering Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to strong-arm President Trump into escalating the Syrian war by abandoning a recent cease-fire and challenging Iran and Russia.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47472.htm

Netanyahu intends to use the US to overthrow Syria and Iran in order to end those governments’ military and financial support for Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that prevents Israel from annexing southern Lebanon with its water resources.

It has been exactly one week since the latest Russia story involving Trump, or in this particular case his son, and with attentions once again starting to drift from the main news cycle narrative of the year, which was eclipsed today by the Senate republicans' humiliating failure to replace or repeal Obamacare, on Tuesday afternoon a White House official said that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a second, "previously undisclosed" (except to all the world leaders who were in the room at the time) meeting at the G-20.

Behold, A Pale Horse: Its Rider Is Named Neocon And Hell Follows Him

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

For a year, the big question of Russiagate has boiled down to this: Did Donald Trump’s campaign collude with the Russians in hacking the DNC?

And until last week, the answer was “no.”

As ex-CIA director Mike Morell said in March, “On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians … there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. … There’s no little campfire, there’s no little candle, there’s no spark.”

Authored by Darius Shahtahmasebi via TheAntiMedia.org,

Iranian officials have struck back at the Trump administration’s verbal attacks on Iran, suggesting the U.S. should worry about its own domestic problems before turning a critical eye towards them. According to al-Monitor, an arguably pro-Tehran media site: