On the Campaign Trail: ——————- Foreign Policy Vision: ‘Strong and Strategic’ The junior senator from New York says “America needs a strong and strategic foreign policy, not endless wars.“ Gillibrand combines opposition to U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan, Yemen and Syria with hawkish positions on Venezuela and Iran. [Do you like Kirsten Gillibrand? Tell us...
Tag: Iran
Post
Post
Where Democrats See Danger in the World
When it comes to the biggest geopolitical threat facing the United States, the Democratic candidates are divided. In contrast to the Iran issue, where the Democrats are united, the threat issue In the first debate, moderator Chuck Todd put the question point blank to the ten candidates. “Who is the geopolitical threat to the United...
Post
Introducing the Deep State Guide to the 2020 Democrats
No matter how it turns out, the 2020 election will be a turning point for the United States’ position in the world. President Trump has broken with decades of U.S. foreign policy based on multilateral alliances, free trade agreements, and military intervention. He has scorned the intelligence agencies and largely jettisoned the inter-agency process that...
Post
Trump Administration Rehabilitates the MEK, Pro-Saddam Iranians
In Iran, the organization known as the Mujaheddin-e Khalq (MEK), is “understood to be widely reviled inside Iran as a leftist Islamist cult that sided with Saddam Hussein during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war,” writes diplomatic correspondent Barbarba Slavin. The Iran-Iraq war resulted in the deaths of a million Iranians, so the MEK is understandably unpopular....
Post
RIP: Tony Mendez, Hero of ‘Argo’ Movie
The movie “Argo” was CIA propaganda vehicle in the guise of an entertaining Hollywood entertainment. It was base on the real life exploits of Tony Mendez, a CIA officer who mastered the art of disguise. Mendez, who died recently, is being lionized in the press. Appropriately for a man whose career seemed drawn from a...