The spectacular meltdown in this week’s episode of hit TV show Game of Thrones has inspired a meme that perfectly encapsulates how US foreign policy is portrayed and the reality on the ground. Daenerys Targaryen’s decision to lay waste to King’s Landing and torch thousands of civilians in the penultimate …
Read More »Pompeo: ‘We lie, cheat, and steal’
US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, who is a former CIA director, has admitted to an audience that the American spy agency trains employees to “lie, cheat and steal.” “I was a CIA director, we lied, we cheated we stole… like, we had entire training courses. It reminds you of …
Read More »UK intelligence rejects spying on Trump.
The British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has rejected claims that it was asked by the administration of former President Barrack Obama to spy on then-President Elect Donald Trump after the 2016 presidential election. A GCHQ spokesman made the comments Wednesday after President Trump tweeted that a former CIA analyst, Larry …
Read More »Opinion: Trump’s veto over Yemen is a scandalous abuse of presidential power.
Expected or not, Donald Trump’s veto of a bipartisan Congressional resolution to end US military involvement in Saudi Arabia’s murderous war in Yemen is an outrage. It will prolong the unspeakable suffering of millions of Yemeni civilians, the blameless victims of Riyadh’s vicious war. Yet Trump’s uncaring arrogance also threatens …
Read More »