Monthly Archives: June 2019

Last three U.S. Secretaries of Defense (confirmed or acting) came via General Dynamics (Mattis on board, 2013-2017), Boeing (Shanahan, 1986-2017), and Raytheon (Esper, 2010-17). — Micah Zenko (@MicahZenko) June 18, 2019

Al-Monitor: Pompeo, speaking in Tampa today shortly before Shanahan’s nomination was pulled, gave no indication he was auditioning for the Pentagon chief job. But it was unusual for a secretary of state to visit a US military command without a … Continue reading →

BBC: A New Zealand man who shared a livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks has been jailed for 21 months. Philip Arps sent the video to 30 people and to a friend, asking for it to be modified to … Continue reading →

Asia Times: Iran is at the heart of the BRI-SCO-EAEU integration road map – the nuts and bolts of Eurasian integration. Russia and China cannot allow Iran to be strangled. Iran boasts fabulous energy reserves, a huge internal market, and … Continue reading →

Craig Murray: We have seen what appears to be the most unconvincing of false flags in the Gulf. I pointed out why it was improbable Iran would attack these particular ships. Since then we have had American military sources pointing to video … Continue reading →

Wenn man im Rückblick nach den Gründen der späteren Spaltung Europas in der Irak-Krise sucht, so sehe ich eine der wichtigsten Ursachen im damaligen Unvermögen des Europäischen Rates, auf die historische Herausforderung des 11. September 2001 eine gemeinsame europäische Antwort zu finden. … Continue reading →

Gerhard Schröder: Meine Damen und Herren, ich habe dem amerikanischen Präsidenten das tief empfundene Beileid des gesamten deutschen Volkes ausgesprochen. Ich habe ihm auch die uneingeschränkte – ich betone: die uneingeschränkte – Solidarität Deutschlands zugesichert. Ich bin sicher, unser aller … Continue reading →