James Mattis

Mattis' resignation letter stated, "Because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position."

It would be nice to think the president has final say on foreign policy, given the U.S. Constitution. But the misleading troop withdrawal announcement, followed by Trump’s boastful tweet, suggests the exact opposite, says Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence Special…Read more →

By Philip Giraldi

In case you missed it, US efforts to prolong the world’s most serious humanitarian crisis in Yemen continue to succeed spectacularly. US military support enables the Saudi coalition to continue to bomb markets, docks, mosques, hospitals, school buses, weddings and funerals, and other civilian targets with impunity. The Saudis’ Yemeni enemy, the Houthi rebels, have no effective air defenses.

SANA’A, YEMEN — Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, the head of Ansar Allah’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, welcomed U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ recent remarks urging an end to the three-year-long Saudi-led war in Yemen. In a tweet, Al-Houthi urged Mattis to announce an immediate end to the war, as well as to the Saudi coalition’s blockade that has triggered a famine in the world’s poorest nation.

Two letters that tested positive for the deadly poison, ricin, were sent to the Pentagon addressed to Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson. Another letter that also may contain ricin was sent to President Trump.

A new book, an anonymous Op-Ed and an Obama speech in the first seven days of September appeared to reveal dangerous insider moves against a dangerous, but constitutionally elected president, writes Joe Lauria. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News…Read more →

21st Century Wire says…

WASHINGTON — Media reports emerged this week that suggest that U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis may soon find himself out of a job, as President Donald Trump and his closest advisors are now “actively” discussing possible candidates to replace the Pentagon chief.

(MEE) — In an explosive new book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward, US President Donald Trump allegedly told Defence Secretary James Mattis that he wanted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assassinated after a chemical attack in Syria in April 2017. “Let’s f***ing kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the f***ing lot of them,” Trump told Mattis. The Washington […]