WHITE HOUSE

A petition currently active on the White House website is asking President Trump to officially designate “Anti-Fascist Action” or ANTIFA, as a terror group.

Confirming earlier reports from Matt Drudge and the NYT, on Friday afternoon the White House confirmed that Trump decided to push out his chief strategist, and the man who according to many got him elected, Stephen Bannon.
“White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Steve Bannon have mutually agreed today would be Steve’s last day. We are grateful for his service and wish him the best,” the White House said in an emailed statement.

Bannon formally joined Trump’s team a year ago, helping propel Trump through to the White House as the chief executive of the campaign.
After Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, Bannon was appointed to a senior advisor role under President Trump.
Earlier this week, he gave a candid interview to a liberal magazine where he blasted some of his adversaries inside the White House.

A few weeks ago Matt and I were invited to Portsmouth University to give a presentation on our research and analysis for National Security Cinema. We opted to do an interactive multi-media workshop that explains how the relationship between government and Hollywood works, and how this influences what we end up watching on screen.

In the first hour I am joined by my good friend Lizzy to discuss her recent work in Palestine. Lizzy just returned from the town of Beit Sahour where she was teaching music to child refugees. We talk about Her experiences in actually traveling to Palestine from the US and some of the bizarre realities of this process. I also share some of my own personal experience traveling to Palestine and my trouble when leaving Israel. We then move onto the issue of Islamophobia and discuss the realities of it and how it can subconsciously manifest itself.

(ANTIWAR.COM) After months of the Pentagon failing to sell a concrete plan of military escalation in Afghanistan to the White House, officials now say that the administration is considering getting back on track with a drawdown, that would lead to a full pullout from the country after 16 years.

(ZHE) — That didn’t take long: just ten days after Anthony Scaramucci was appointed as the new White House communications director, the NYT reports that Trump has removed Scaramucci from the role of Communications Director, as requested by the new chief of staff, John Kelly.

In one of the shortest lifespans of a top White House official in recent memory and the shortest of Donald Trump’s Presidency, Anthony Scaramucci has resigned from his position as White House Communications Director just 10 days after agreeing to take the job.

In June 2016 the Pentagon repealed a ban on openly transgender people serving in the US military. A year later and Tzar Trump I has reinstated the ban, causing a panic among the liberal Left for whom the right of transgender people to kill innocent civilians in foreign countries is more important than the right of those people to not be killed. From my perspective, less people in the military is a good thing, regardless of whether they consider themselves male, female or anything else.

President Donald Trump has just resolved days of speculation over a possible shake up in White House senior leadership by firing his chief-of-staff, Reince Priebus.
Simultaneously, the president named Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as Priebus’ replacement.
Trump made the announcement, as usual, via Twitter: