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There may be an impeachment in the works - but some think the target may not be Trump

Jim Hoft
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 21 May 2018 01:32 UTC
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© Associated Press / Susan Walsh
Far left hack and historian Jon Meacham said Monday that he thinks impeachment will be the "season finale" to President Trump's time in office. Meachum made the courageous announcement on the Morning Joe echo chamber on Monday.

Meachum, the former Editor-in-Chief of leftwing Newsweek, may be on to something.

But he might be surprised with the final result.

It would be hard for the Deep State and their supporters in Congress to impeach President Trump for mean tweets. It would not be hard for Congress to impeach Barack Obama for spying on the opposition candidate during a national election.

And that is where this story is heading.

Comment: What a lovely thought. But as has been seen before, those at the top of the heap tend to walk. Witness Killary.

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European Union revolts against Washington: Marks new stage in US-European relationship

Alex Gorka
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 19 May 2018 00:00 UTC
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The May 16-17 EU-Western Balkans summit did address the problems of integration, but it was eclipsed by another issue. The meeting turned out to be a landmark event that will go down in history as the day Europe united to openly defy the US. The EU will neither review the Iran nuclear deal (JPCOA) nor join the sanctions against Tehran that have been reintroduced and even intensified by America. Washington's unilateral withdrawal from the JPCOA was the last straw, forcing the collapse of Western unity. The Europeans found themselves up against a wall. There is no point in discussing further integration or any other matter if the EU cannot protect its own members. But now it can.

President Trump has his own reasons to shred the Iran deal, but he needs Europe to strong-arm Tehran into signing a "better" agreement. Were it to do so, the US administration would make it look like a big victory. Washington does not shy away from threatening its allies with punitive measures but the EU is standing tall, deepening the rift. As European Council President Donald Tusk put it, "With friends like Trump, who needs enemies?" According to him, the US president has "rid Europe of all illusions." Mr. Tusk wants Europe to "stick to our guns" against new US policies.

Comment: See the Sott Focus: US And Israel Holding Global Economy Hostage in Showdown With Iran

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Vader

Iraq 2.0: New US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is setting the stage for regime change in Iran

Jake Johnson
AntiMedia
Tue, 22 May 2018 22:06 UTC
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Probable psychopath Mike Pompeo
In a speech at the right-wing Heritage Foundation on Monday that critics said should put to rest all lingering illusions that the Trump White House wants anything other than regime change in Iran, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo outlined a "wildly unrealistic" list of demands that Iran must meet if it wants nuclear talks with America and warned that the U.S. will "crush" Tehran with sanctions if it doesn't comply.

"Pompeo has not outlined a strategy, but rather a grab bag of wishful thinking that can only be interpreted as a call for regime change in Iran," Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, wrote on Twitter in response to the secretary of state's remarks. "This speech could have been given word-for-word by [national security adviser John] Bolton."

Echoing Maloney's assessment of Pompeo's newly unveiled "Plan B" for nuclear negotiations-which comes around two weeks after President Donald Trump violated the Iran nuclear accord and placed the U.S. on the path to yet another war in the Middle East-National Iranian American Council (NIAC) president Trita Parsi argued that the Trump administration's demands are intentionally unrealistic and "clearly designed to ensure there cannot be any new negotiation."

"If you maximize pressure and set unachievable demands, you solely pave the way for war," Parsi wrote. "That is the objective of Trump, and that's been the objective of his cheerleaders in Saudi and Israel."


Comment: US And Israel Holding Global Economy Hostage in Showdown With Iran

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Here's why Bloody Gina, America's torturer-in-chief now runs the CIA

Eric Zuesse
The Duran
Tue, 22 May 2018 21:25 UTC
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© Agence France-PresseGina Haspel comes out after testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on her nomination to be the next CIA director in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on May 9, 2018.
This is the way a dictatorship has to act in order to stay in power

On May 17th, the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee voted 10 to 5 to approve Gina Haspel as America's new chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. Back in 2002, she had headed the CIA's "black site" in Thailand where she ordered and oversaw the torturing of Abu Zubaydah, trying to force him to provide evidence that Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, but Zubaydah had no such evidence and wasn't even able credibly to concoct a story that President George W. Bush could use to 'justify' America's invading Iraq in response to 9/11.

Subsequently, Zubaydah has been held incommunicado in Guantanamo in order to prevent him from being able to be heard by the American public regarding what 'our' Government did to him (and possibly even in order to bring formal charges against the U.S. Government regarding its treatment of him), and (to the extent that he knows) why the U.S. Government did this.

Comment: Bloody Gina looks to be a disastrous pick to lead the CIA if advancing peace was really the goal of the US. One more step on the road to war with Iran and Russia? 'Enhanced interrogation' worked for Iraq.

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Human Rights Council votes to investigate Israel - UN head says Israel cages Gazans 'in a toxic slum from birth to death'

Allison Deger
Mondoweiss
Sat, 19 May 2018 20:35 UTC
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© United Nations / Elma OkicIbrahim Khraishi, Permanent Observer Representative of the State of Palestine to the UN and other international organizations in Switzerland speaks at the Human Rights Council special session on "the deteriorating human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem". United Nations Office in Geneva, 18 May 2018.
The United Nations highest human rights group voted Friday in Geneva to investigate Israel for human rights violations in "the military assaults on the large-scale civilian protests that began on 30 March 2018" in the Gaza Strip, after convening a special session.

The the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) passed the resolution with 29 votes in favor and 14 abstentions. The U.S. and Australia alone voted against it.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticized the council after the meeting, defending Israel for engaging in "legitimate defense of its own border against terrorist attacks."

"It is another shameful day for human rights," Haley said.

Comment:

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Flashback Hillary hoping voters will forget - will you?

Diane Rigali
rense.com
Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:11 UTC
Hillary Clinton

Comment: By 2008, Killary had already amassed an impressive number of scandals. America has dodged a bullet, not once but twice.


Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her "record," which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or "co-president" - and her seven years in the Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes:

HILLARY, As First Lady, assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Pat Moynahan, key votes were needed to pass her legislation, that she would "demonize "anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.)

Comment: Further on Killary's shenanigans since 2008, see

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Vader

SOTT Focus: US And Israel Holding Global Economy Hostage in Showdown With Iran

Corey Schink
Sott.net
Tue, 22 May 2018 19:19 UTC
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Squeezing Iran's economy
For decades now the US and Israel have waged regime change across the Middle East and North Africa. In the chaos that ensued Iran underwent a transformation that naturally expanded its influence. Now, upset with the consequences of their actions, the US and Israel have a new plan: take the global economy hostage in order to force Iran to abandon that influence. As usual, Russia is doing its best to manage the West's insanity while maintaining course for a more sane future.

On May 1, 2018, hours after Netanyahu issued his bizarre 'Iran lied' powerpoint presentation, and a week before Trump ditched the Iran deal, Netanyahu and Putin had a phone conversation. During this chat Putin stressed the deal's importance for international stability, reiterating that it must be "strictly observed by all parties." Not one who's prone to taking 'international stability' into account, Netanyahu had other ideas.
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Bad Guys

UK Defense Secretary throws tantrum over productive German-Russian gas relationship because it undermines NATO scare tactics


RT
Tue, 22 May 2018 19:52 UTC
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© Jens Büttner/Global Look PressCommittee worries that German reliance on Russian gas a "fundamental flaw" to NATO battle plans
UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson told the Commons select committee of his fears of German over-reliance on Russian gas - should conflict arise between NATO and Moscow.

Williamson appeared during a Defence Committee on US, NATO and UK defense relations ahead of July's upcoming NATO summit, where MPs scrutinized the MoD's financial priorities as members of the alliance look to boost individual military spending to a minimum of 2% of their GDP.

Responding to a question on how quickly the UK could field a war-fighting division to the Baltics in the event of a conflict, Williamson said that while a force of 10,000 UK troops could be fielded between 2-10 days, a mechanized or armored brigade would take "significantly longer," up to 20 days for deployment.

He added that all NATO troops, "not just British forces" would be used in the event of such a mobilization and said the alliance was still in discussions on how to boost military mobility.
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SOTT Focus: Iran in The Crosshairs as The Empire Enters Its Mad Dog Days

John Wight
RT
Tue, 22 May 2018 19:37 UTC
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Mike Pompeo's bellicose rhetoric against Tehran leaves no doubt that Washington has embraced the status of international renegade.

Pompeo's speech, delivered in his capacity as secretary of state, evinced a blatant disregard for the integrity of international treaties and respect for international law. It also ensures that the last vestiges of credibility enjoyed by the US has now been shredded in the eyes of a world grown weary - weary of a Trump administration which, in its caprice and continual threats, is more redolent of a New York mafia crime family than a respectable and responsible government.

With Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) - better known as the Iran nuclear deal - his administration has embarked on the path of conflict with Iran in conjunction with regional allies Israel and Saudi Arabia. Together they comprise an axis of aggression that imperils the stability of the region, with potentially grave consequences for the rest of the world given the succour such a regional conflict would give to extremism and global terrorism.

It also sets a dangerous precedent when it comes to arriving at a peaceful resolution to the on-going crisis in Ukraine and ensuring a successful outcome to the inchoate process of peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.
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Snakes in Suits

Pompeo: 'Terrorist' Iran turned Syria into a 'kill zone' - or was it the US?


RT
Mon, 21 May 2018 23:30 UTC
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© CNBC.comSecretary of State Mike Pompeo
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for "perpetuating" the 7-year Syrian war, causing a refugee crisis and provoking terrorist attacks in Europe, by supporting the "murderous Assad regime." Is he correct?

The accusations came as part of Pompeo's 12-point ultimatum to the Islamic Republic delivered on Monday, in which the newly-appointed official slammed its "financing of terror" and "destabilizing activities." But does Washington have the moral authority to accuse Tehran of malign meddling, and has its own influence brought more peace? Syria is a good test case.


Comment: Click on the Pompeo tweet video - hear it for yourself. Outrageous lies and vile arrogance! Hard-put to say the Trump administration is 'coaxing' Iran into a new deal.

EU response from Mogherini, via RT:
The 12-point US ultimatum to Tehran does nothing to further talks with the Islamic Republic on issues not covered by the nuclear deal, nor does it make the world safer, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said.

The top EU diplomat has been dismissive of the Trump administration's plan to coax Iran into a new deal by demanding an array of unilateral concessions, including its departure from Syria and withdrawal of support from its allied militias across the Middle East.

The ham-fisted approach envisaged by Washington does not serve any practical purpose, Mogherini argued on Monday, saying that Pompeo's speech "has not demonstrated how walking away from the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] has made or will make the region safer from the threat of nuclear proliferation or how it puts us in a better position to influence Iran's conduct in areas outside the scope of JCPOA."

Mogherini has become one of the most vocal defenders of the 2015 nuclear accord since the US pull-out earlier this month, reiterating the deal should remain intact as the basis for any future talks with Iran, including over its missile program that has been a major irritant for the West. Denouncing US President Donald Trump's decision to quit the landmark agreement, she reminded that it was "not a bilateral agreement and it is not in the hands of any single country to terminate it unilaterally."
See also: Pompeo's 12 demands list for Tehran is 'an ultimatum designed to fail'

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