house judiciary holds barr in contempt; trump claims executive
Today, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that President Donald Trump has declared executive privilege over the entire Mueller report. ..…
iran partly resumes nuclear activities to enrich uranium : the dong-a
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo canceled his visit to Germany scheduled on Tuesday, turning his route to Iraq to discuss Iran-related issues. ..…
us and nato reject the un treaty and deploy new nuclear weapons in
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg thanked the United States because with this installation, “the first of its kind with a land-based base”, they greatly enhanced the ability to “defend European allies against ballistic missiles from outside the Euro-Atlantic area”. ..…
shock: over 1% of guatemala, honduras entered us since september
., acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin K. The migration flows, especially of vulnerable families and children, from Central America through Mexico, to remote areas all along U.S border, represent both security and humanitarian crisis. ..…
william barr cited for contempt of congress as democrat asks how trump
Due to Nadler's 'blatant abuse of power, and at the attorney general's request,' White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters, 'the president has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege.' . ..…
hundreds of former federal prosecutors: trump guilty of obstruction of
Those include Attorney General William Barr’s lies to the Congress about the Mueller report and Mueller’s reactions to his (Barr’s) mischaracterization of that report, Barr’s resistance to testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Trump’s insistence that none of his current or past aides can..…
trump's trade war is bad, and everyone is losing
“There’s no question that some of the trade policies helped in the G.D.P. number,” said Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary. . Technically speaking, the secretary is right: Net exports added to growth in the first quarter, according to the preliminary number the Commerce Department..…
john bolton's best chance for a war with iran is now
On Monday acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said the deployment was made because of a credible threat by Iranian regime forces and he offered no details. ..…
special counsel report on russian interference in the 1984 election
Kennedy tasked fellow Democrat Tunney to make contact with Russian government, then under control of Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of Communist Party and former head of KGB. ..…
yemen war 'does not serve any party' says oman’s ambassador to us
Omani Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah listens Omani Ambassador to US Hunaina Al-Mughairy as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks while attending Gulf Cooperation Council summit on the sidelines of United Nations General Assembly meeting New York City, Sept 28, 2018.. ..…
archbishop demetrios resigns: end of an era for the greek orthodox
The resignation on Saturday of Archbishop Demetrios brought to close his twenty-year-long leadership of Greek Orthodox Church America.. ..…
china’s algorithms of repression
—Chen Quanguo, Xinjiang party secretary, in a directive issued on August 17, 2017 [9] . ... [The party secretary] randomly chose a vehicle number and asked the operator to pull up the vehicle’s location. . ..…
no alternative to self-determination in kashmir dispute
The writer is secretary general of the World Kashmir Awareness Forum . ..…
no time to go 'wobbly': pompeo scolds britain over china and huawei
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Britain on Wednesday it needed to change its attitude towards China and telecoms company Huawei, casting the world's second economy as threat to West similar to that once posed by Soviet Union.. ..…
biden's early support for same-sex marriage still remembered for
The next day, then-White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was hammered with questions throughout his regular briefing on Biden’s remarks and whether Biden had gotten in front of the president and why Obama continued to oppose same-sex marriage. . ... Immediately afterward, then-White House Press..…
military force will not achieve u.s. objectives in venezuela
few weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Venezuela's, Colombia, to strike Reagan-esque pose in calling on Maduro government to open bridge into Venezuela to allow entry of humanitarian aid. ..…
jomo kwame sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, former economics professor, was United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, and received Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing Frontiers of Economic Thought... ..…
frc blog » uk report: 80 percent of world's persecuted religious
Commissioned by Foreign Secretary, that majority of the world's persecuted religious believers are Christians. ..…
protest for “two states”
The PSC protest is widely sponsored, but the message from Unite union general secretary Len McCluskey backing it makes no reference to its actual demands. ..…
u.s. to send military hospital ship toward venezuela
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters Tuesday the decision to send the military hospital ship came after careful discussion with Navy Adm. ... The military leaders had met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton last week. . ..…
afghanistan, the forgotten proxy war. the role of osama bin laden and
For any errors that Leonid Brezhnev, the General Secretary at the time, may have made (which do deserve a fair amount of criticism, but are not the focus of this article), the 1979 decision to intervene on behalf of Afghanistan against U.S. imperialism was not one of them. ..…
ny senate passes bill for trump's state tax returns
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected the effort, and later Tuesday New York Times published report on 10 years of Trump's tax information. ..…
2020 census: scope of the decennial census is now in scotus’ hands
On March 26, 2018, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross issued memorandum directing Census Bureau to reinstate question about citizenship status on the 2020 census questionnaire. ... After conducting trial, the district court ruled that Secretary Ross decision to add the citizenship question..…
sc in-house committee on sexual harassment: a “travesty of
Suresh, National General Secretary, PUCL . Related . . . Related . . . . . . . ..…
new york senate oks giving us house trump state tax return
Federal law allows Congress to demand the president's tax returns under certain circumstances, and on Monday Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to disclose Trump's federal returns to Democratic-controlled House, saying the request lacks legitimate legislative purpose... ..…
will the u.s. start a war against iran? – countercurrents
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the “indications and warnings” included actions by the Lebanese political formation Hezbollah. ..…
nyt: trump 'siding with autocrats' by weighing terror label for muslim
The newspaper goes on to note that Trump officials who opposed labeling MB a terror group – namely former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, former Secretary of State Rex W. ... Citing unnamed Trump officials, the news outlet noted that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and John R. ..…
the “pro-western revolution” in ukraine has been a
The White House’s then press secretary, Sean Spicer, said that Poroshenko was scheduled to see vice president Mike Pence alone, but in the end “a compromise was reached” so that he could talk to Trump. . ..…
trump regime middle east saber rattling
Acting US war secretary Patrick Shanahan turned truth on its head, claiming the Islamic Republic poses “a credible threat” to US regional forces and interests. . ..…
ecuador’s crackdown on abortion is putting women in jail
A prosecutor arrived with his secretary, and they began to question her: What happened? ..…
deep state conditions public for war – american free press
Paul Craig Roberts was assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and was associate editor and columnist at The Wall Street Journal. ..…
maligned in black and white: southern newspapers played a major role
Three times on the section’s front cover he lambasted the newspaper’s owner, Daniels, who would go on to become secretary of the Navy and U.S. ambassador to Mexico. ..…
one has to only look at afghanistan to see americans at war with their
Reports that U.S military has stopped tracking the amount of territory controlled or influenced in war-torn Afghanistan by Afghan insurgencies is the latest sign of just how badly U.S is losing control of Afghanistan. ..…
potus is heading to new york – the 1600 report
Press Secretary Jay Carney will Air Force One... ..…
making sense of the $1.25 trillion national security state budget –
So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the U.S. military is woefully underfunded, think twice. ..…
a dollar-by-dollar tour of the national security state
So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the U.S. military is woefully underfunded, think twice. ..…
farsnews
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of the World Assembly of Islamic Awakening Ali Akbar Velayati denounced the deadly arracks of Tel Aviv against defenseless Palestinians, calling for full stop of brutalities against the people of Gaza. . . . . ..…
the development of workers’ liberty’s ideas on israel and
Memory suggests that we re-did the page. . [3] I’ve checked: it was part of a big campaign against creating a new German army. . [4] In the later 1950s, I even found Jewish-background youngsters in the YCL who sang Irish nationalist, Irish Republican, and even Catholic-sectarian songs, led by the branch..…
bob berg, coleman young's press secretary, dies at 76
Bob Berg, Mayor Coleman Young's press secretary, dies at 76 . Christine Ferretti The Detroit News . ... The following month, Berg was hired as press secretary to Detroit Mayor Coleman A. ..…
san francisco poised to ban facial recognition technology
Mark Finchem could not get hearing on his bill in the legislature, except has filed with Secretary of State order to get the issue on the ballot. ..…
china’s extensive internal spy network - international
During April 30 visit with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry Geng Shuang insisted the country is handling the in the region... ..…
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