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BOEHNER PLAYS HARDBALL WITH STATE DEPARTMENT

by | Jun 11, 2015

Threatening to cut the State Department budget 15%, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said the $47.8 billion budget would also restrict funds from being used to set up a diplomatic mission in Cuba. Boeher mirrored the House GOP’s frustration over the slow pace of...

IRAN-BACKED HEZBOLLAH MILITIA BATTLES ISIS

by | Jun 10, 2015

Announcing today he’d send 450 more U.S. advisors to Iraq, President Barack Obama signaled no change in U.S. policy toward the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Refusing to put U.S. boots on the ground, Barack disagreed with his Capitol Hill critics led by Sen. John...

JEB BEATS HIS CHEST PROMISING TO CONFRONT PUTIN

by | Jun 9, 2015

Retired from politics for eight years after serving as Florida governor, 62-year-old Jeb Bush hopes his European trip, before announcing June 16 as a 2016 GOP candidate, burnishes his foreign policy credentials. Bush promised to counter Putin’s aggression to “isolate...

G7’s EMPTY REBUKE OF PUTIN’S UKRAINE INVASION

by | Jun 8, 2015

Hosting the G7 conference with the world’s strongest economies except Russia in the Bavarian Alps, German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned Russian President Vladimr Putin’s 2014 Ukraine invasion. Merkel and U.S. President Barack Obama insisted that the G7 opposed...

OBAMA AND KERRY AT ODDS OVER UKRAINE

by | Jun 7, 2015

When Russian President Vladimir Putin finished hosting the Sochi Winter Olympics Feb. 23, 2014 it didn’t take long for the former KGB colonel to invade Crimea March 1, 2014. Putin watched a day earlier Ukraine’s elected leader Viktor Yanukovich chased out of Kiev in...