Mike Pompeo

The neocons and the media demand tough talk and even tougher action from their candidate and Pompeo is already running hard to oblige them.

In a speech delivered this Tuesday, at the Washington Press Club, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed that the new “home base” of Al-Qaeda is Iran. He did so without any evidence to support his claim. Why has this been taken so seriously? The claim that Iran is somehow hosting, aiding and abetting al-Qaeda, Read More...

In what are likely his final few days in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been taking a number of increasingly outlandish and aggressive policy steps.
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(Photo credit:  Yander Zamora/EFE) On January 11, in his final days before leaving office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added one parting blow to the series of bludgeons his administration has inflicted on Cuba for four years: putting the island on the list of “state sponsors of terror” that includes only Iran, North Korea and […]
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In a parting gift to the Cuban exile community for their loyalty to Trump, the US declared Cuba a “state sponsor of terror.”
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The US State Department designated Yemen’s Houthi movement — the most effective force in fighting al-Qaeda — as a “terrorist” organization. Meanwhile Washington and Saudi Arabia have supported al-Qaeda. The United States government has designated the main enemy of al-Qaeda in Yemen, the Houthi movement, as a terrorist organization, after spending years backing al-Qaeda in the country. Like the US-led wars on Syria, Libya, former Yugoslavia, and 1980s Afghanistan, Yemen represents an example of an armed conflict where Washington has […]

Exclusive: Sec. Mike Pompeo: China’s Communist Party Is ‘Inside the Gates’ When it came to the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan said America should “trust, but verify.” Now, as the Chinese Communist Party has broken promise after promise, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls for a policy of “distrust and verify.” In this episode, […]

The Deep State is preparing the ground for the next phase of the greatest intelligence show on earth, Tom Luongo writes.

The most tarnished legacy of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be his introduction to U.S. foreign policy the racist dogma of the Christian Reconstructionist Church, Wayne Madsen writes.

On December 2, the Embassy Protection Collective (EPC) members, who were arrested in May 2019 when the United States illegally invaded the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC, completed their probation, ending the risk of the 30 days in prison that was being held over their heads. I am one of the four who were arrested. […]
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