By Gwynne Dyer via BangorDailyNews.com,
“I am no Mussolini,” Venezuela’s beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro insisted on television early this month. But if things go on this way, he could end up like Mussolini. That would be very unfortunate for him and also for Venezuela.
After years of DOJ service outside the spotlight, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was thrust into the public eye last week when the Trump administration cited his scathing letter of FBI Director Jim Comey's handling of the Clinton investigation as the primary reason for Comey's sudden dismissal that took pretty much everyone by surprise, including Comey himself.
After evading the press for much of the past week in the aftermath of Comey's firing, and following this weekend's unconfirmed report that Trump may be seeking to fire Sean Spicer (along with several other key members of the Trump inner circle), not to mention the latest SNL skit, today's press briefing may be somewhat awkward affair for the White House press secretary.
Expect more of the same: questions on Comey, whether there is a growing chasm between Trump and the Senate on healthcare policy as well as questions on the global malware attack.
Just over a month after the US launched a cruise missile attack at Syria, US relations with Syria are deteriorating rapidly once more after the State Department accused the Syrian government of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
Submitted by Keep Talking Greece
An unprecedented incident took place in the Greek Parliament earlier on Monday. At least one Golden Dawn MP verbally and physically attacked the leader of the parliamentary group of New Democracy. The incident occurred in front of the cameras as the debate carried out at the economic parliamentary committee on the new austerity package is being transmitted live.