Speaking on Friday during a visit to Istanbul, Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters that US hopes that Iran would immediately reverse its nuclear program “are neither logical nor will ever be realized.” “The logic is that the person who left the agreement will return to it, and we, who are …
Read More »Mask off: Fauci says lack of ‘candor’ from Trump administration about Covid-19 likely cost lives, gets accused of hypocrisy
After a Thursday press briefing where he mostly fielded questions about the benefits of working with the Biden administration over Trump’s, Fauci joined CNN on Friday morning and took similar questions. Asked if a “lack of candor or facts” from former President Trump led to contributed to the death toll …
Read More »Trump says he ‘will be back in some form’ & wishes Biden’s administration luck in farewell ceremony
The outgoing US president and first lady spoke to a group of supporters on the day of Joe Biden’s inauguration as Trump’s successor in the White House. Trump, who decided to snub the ceremony, asserted that his administration had been a success and claimed credit for the future successes of …
Read More »New administration, same old regime change? Biden to recognize Guaido as self-declared leader of Venezuela & will keep sanctions
Anthony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for secretary of state, told members of the US Senate on Tuesday that there were no plans to rescind the US recognition of Guaido as the leader of the South American nation, even though the country is still firmly under the control of the elected government …
Read More »Interventionist Samantha Power is latest pick to serve in Joe Biden administration as USAID head
Though her appointment was rumored in Washington for weeks, Biden’s transition team officially confirmed it on Wednesday. Power is best known for her “humanitarian” interventionism advocacy. As an aide at the Obama White House, she championed US intervention in Syria and Libya – where US-backed Islamist militants sought to overthrow …
Read More »The Trump Administration 2017-2021 – An Obituary
After four long years, and a lot of delusional LARPing on both sides, President Donald Trump will be leaving the White House on January 20 to make way for America’s next astroturfed czar of centrism, Joe Biden. Trump supporters don’t like to admit it, but it’s clear that something went …
Read More »Five predictions for the Joe Biden administration: 2021 edition
Career politician Joe Biden will take charge of the broken US political system amid a global pandemic. He will be inaugurated on January 20 with Americans so divided that he will be the second straight president who must try to govern a country where about half the people don’t respect …
Read More »With nothing left to do but plunder, Biden administration embraces loyalty over competence… just like Trump
Without competence, though, even the most unquestioning loyalty is all but meaningless. Mining his former boss’ personnel files to fill important roles may seem like the noble thing for Biden to do now, given Obama’s central role in getting his former vice president elected commander-in-chief, but when it comes time …
Read More »The return of the Obama ‘adults’ in a Joe Biden administration is likely to spell ruin for America
To those watching the drama unfolding in Washington, DC around the stalled efforts on the part of nominal President-elect Joe Biden in forming a transition team, the parallels are eerily familiar: a bitterly contested election between an establishment political figure and a brash DC ‘outsider’, a controversial outcome delaying the …
Read More »Biden administration will find it hard to integrate itself in a world changed by Trump
If the press reports are true, it appears that much of the world joined the roughly 50 percent of Americans who celebrated the news that Joe Biden had passed the Electoral College threshold of the 270 votes needed to become president-elect. While America struggles to find a path where Biden …
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