Everyone is suddenly talking about the Deep State – the configuration of spy agencies, career bureaucrats, and overseas spooks whose murky omnipresence has been brought to light by President Trump’s contention that he was “wiretapped” by his predecessor. With his...
Security Forces Move Deeper into Mosul; 238 Killed in Iraq
The Beltway Conspiracy To Break Trump
At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled "with fury" says The Washington Post, "mad – steaming, raging, mad." Early Saturday the fuming president exploded with this tweet: "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires...
Mass Grave, Chemical Weapons in Mosul; 185 Killed in Iraq
Into the Syrian Quagmire
Donald Trump thinks he’s going to get rid of ISIS in Syria “quickly,” and then we’ll be on our way to making America great again – but already he’s finding that the terrain there is a bit crowded, and that he has a bit more than the fast-dissipating “Caliphate” to...
The President Who Loved Generals
Let’s think about the logic of it all for a moment. The 2016 Pentagon budget came in at just over $600 billion and that royal sum, larger than the combined military investments of the next seven countries, was hardly the full measure of the money U.S. taxpayers spent...
Mosul Operations Resume After Weather Delay; 146 Killed in Iraq
Chemical Casualties Rise in Mosul; 41 Killed in Iraq
Another Hatchet Job on Snowden
In depicting National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden as a Russian spy, author Edward Jay Epstein acknowledges his debt to the CIA’s famously paranoid counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, who specialized in counterintuitive thinking that surely...
Netanyahu’s Contribution to History and Trump’s ‘Ultimate Deal’
On February 15, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and newly inaugurated U.S. President Donald Trump held their first official meeting. Strangely, they held their press conference prior to the meeting. During that press conference, in answer to the question,...