Actor Christian Bale has garnered rave reviews for his role as former US Vice President Dick Cheney in the new film, VICE. For most pundits, the analysis stops there. But does its surface narrative do justice to one of the most pivotal periods in American, and world history?
By Dr. Ron Paul
I’m starting to wonder whether President Trump has any power over US foreign policy at all. Many people believe that the US president is just a figurehead, with actual foreign policy firmly in the hands of the deep state. Trump’s latest dramatic U-turn on pulling troops from Syria certainly feeds such theories.
This week I am joined by Yuval Laor of the Open Minds Foundation, and one of my co-hosts for Open Minds On Air. We discuss the neoconservative movement, the exploitation of trauma, and Israel. Yuval and I start off the conversation with the breaking news that Donald Trump has decided to pull the US out the Iran Nuclear Deal. We talk about what this means for America and the prospect of war with Iran. Yuval gives us his perspective of this as an Israeli-American, and how the public within Israel is reacting to the news.
21st Century Wire says…
By now, you’ve heard about two major international events that have taken place over the last 72 hours.
The Heritage Foundation, perhaps the US’ most well-known neoconservative think tank, co-hosted an event last week with India’s elite Observer Research Foundation (ORF) titled “The New India-U.S.
This pond sludge has emerged from the deep, and is quickly becoming the new ‘swamp viper’ of the Neocon set…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a Monday prime-time performance for the world – but it was probably only meant for an audience of one: U.S. President Trump.
Bibi’s theatrical show, complete with cartoonish slides and magician curtains, was billed as Israel’s smoking gun ‘dossier’ on Iran’s ‘secret nuclear program’ in defiance of the 2015 nuclear deal that Trump is expected to make a decision on later this month.
U.S. District Judge George B. Daniels of the Southern District of New York ordered Iran to pay more than $6bn to victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks – despite the fact that The 9/11 Commission’s official investigation found no evidence of Iranian involvement.
What happens when an unthinkable war meets an unbeatable case of war fever? Thanks to Russia-gate, unsubstantiated reports about the use of poison gas in Syria, and a slew of similar factoids and pseudo-scandals, the world may soon find out.
In saner times, including during the Cold War at even its most heated, political leaders knew not to push a conflict with a rival nuclear power too far. After all, what was the point of getting into a fight in which everyone would lose?
President Donald Trump has made a new move, which is simply NOT to move in pressing new sanctions against the Russian Federation in regards to their support of the Syrian regime under President Bashar al-Assad. This move came as a surprise, because only hours before the US envoy to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, was presenting the move for such new and severe sanctions against Russia.
Sputnik News reports that White House Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders announced that the imposition of new sanctions was being placed on hold.
This naturally produced a media firestorm.
