U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, center, visits with U.S. Gen. Vincent K. Brooks, commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea, right, at the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP/Lee Jin-man)
A poster on the street with a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump and a sentence referring to a quotation of Iranian Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 10, 2017. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
NEW YORK — (Analysis) Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rhetoric was a cocktail of ostensibly nationalist economics and isolationist foreign policy that was viewed by much of the punditocracy as a sharp break from traditional U.S. policy. But while his words seemed to be filled with promise, his actual policies have, rather predictably, shown themselves to be hollow.
Author John Potash joins me in the first hour for a discussion of his book The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders. John describes the radical political life that Tupac was born into; mother Afeni Shakur and step father Mutulu Shakur were both prominent Black Panthers. We talk about the impact that this had on Tupac and how this would ultimately shape his life and his untimely death. John talk about the political messages with in Tupac’s songs, as well as his efforts behind the scenes to broker peace between gangs such as The Bloods and Crips.
So-called “low-life leakers” certainly have a sense of irony.
(COMMONDREAMS) The leaks just keep on coming.
Contacts between the US Secretary of State and Russia’s Foreign Minister are growing more frequent, which is a positive sign amid the pressure and attempts by the Deep State to derail any sort of US-Russia dialogue.
According to a press statement released on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website, Rex Tillerson spoke with Sergey Lavrov by phone.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives for a meeting on the conflict in Syria during a meeting of the G-20 Foreign Ministers in Bonn, Germany, Feb. 17, 2017. (Oliver Berg/AP)
Whilst the meeting between the leaders of the US and Russian militaries – Dunford and Gerasimov – took place away from the spotlight in Baku, Azerbaijan, the world media’s attention was focused on the meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Bonn.
The Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stand together during the G-20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Bonn, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AP/Michael Probst)
(REPORT) — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told nations opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that the US would not cooperate militarily with Russia until it stopped labeling all Assad’s opponents as terrorists, a Western diplomat said on Friday.
21st Century Wire says…
Amazingly, this story was all but completely blacked out of the US media. Considering what ‘fragile and tense’ relations there are between the US and Russia, it seems unreal that the US media would choose to ignore this story…
While the US media were busy obsessing over Donald Trump’s scandale de jour, for the first time, the new U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has stated his desire to arrange a meeting with Donald Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the soonest possible date in order to discuss the pressing issues of Syria and the war in Donbass. As the lyrics to the T. Rex song go, ‘Get it on’.
But there is a problem when it comes to getting it on, most of Trump and Tillerson’s new team are not yet in place.
Lavrov stated the problem quite clearly,
