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KERRY PRESSES CEASEFIRE AS SYRIA POLICY FAILS

by | Feb 12, 2016

Meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Munich Feb. 11, 70-year-old Secretary of State John Kerry announced a “cessation of hostilities” March 1 in Syria, for the purposes to getting humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged area. Since Russia joined the...

FED’S YELLEN BLUFFS ABOUT MORE RATE HIKES

by | Feb 11, 2016

Telling Congress Feb. 10 that a rate cut was unlikely, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen hinted that there’s still a chance the Fed will tighten more in 2016. Yellen’s words aren’t taken lightly by Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P 500...

NEW HAMPSHIRE QUAKES 2016 PRESIDENTIAL RACE

by | Feb 10, 2016

Tossing the mainstream political establishment into chaos, New Hampshire’s landslides for GOP real estate mogul Donald Trump and Democratic Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders served notice that voters looked for something different in 2016. Since Bernie announced April 30,...

NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY TO SHAKE UP GOP RACE

by | Feb 9, 2016

Jockeying for position in last-ditch efforts to find a lane to continue their presidential races, GOP candidates took out the knives in ABC’s Feb. 6 debate. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ripped into Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) whose impressive third-place Iowa finish...

HILLARY’S NEW ATTACK DOG: HER HUSBAND BILL

by | Feb 8, 2016

Dismissing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) political revolution as “hermetically sealed” from reality, former President Bill Clinton tried to level the playing field for Democratic front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. When Bernie nearly tied...

SAUDI KING SALMAN’S PROPAGANDA OVER-THE-TOP

by | Feb 7, 2016

Calling on foreign powers to not interfere with Saudi Arabia’s internal affairs, King Salaman showed off his prodigious propaganda skills, knowing full well, it’s the other way around. Contrary to Salman’s view, Saudi Arabia has funded the proxy war in Syria costing...

OBAMA’S SYRIA POLICY COLLAPSES

by | Feb 6, 2016

President Barack Obama’s policy backing the Saudi proxy war against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has failed with Syrian troops re-capturing territory lost to Saudi-backed opposition groups. On the campaign trail, former Secretary of State Hillary...

HILLARY AND BERNIE CLASH ON FOREIGN POLICY

by | Feb 5, 2016

Pulling rank on 74-year-old Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in a Feb. 4 MSNBC debate moderated by Chuck Todd and Rachel Madow in Durham, N.H., 68-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Bernie of “smearing” her by “insinuation” over her strong...

RUSSIA WARNS OF TURKEY’S SYRIA MILITARY BUILD-UP

by | Feb 4, 2016

Since shooting down a Russian SU-24 fighter jet Nov. 24, 2015 for briefly entering Turkish air space, Russian President Vladimir Putin put Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on notice that any more aggression would result in a Russian military response. Erdogan...

TRUMP ACCUSES CRUZ OF IOWA DIRTY TRICKS

by | Feb 3, 2016

Accounting for the 9% difference in the Des Moines Register pre-election poll, showing real estate mogul Donald Trump up by 5% but losing to Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) by 4%, Trump cried foul. With political pundits predicting a large turnout would favor Trump, Monday’s...