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Democrats Demand Redacted Version of Mueller Report
“No evidence of collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government” -ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM BARR April 18, 2019 The two-year saga known as ‘The Mueller Report’ has come to a disappointing, albeit predictable end for Democrats on the morning of...
As Israel Votes: Sanctions on Soleimani, US Designates IRGC Terrorist Organization
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters his 5th term after securing victory in the Israeli elections promising to establish a government quickly. Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Yisrael Beiteinu, Right-wing Union and Kulanu- right-wing parties were elected into...
Narco-America: How Cartels are Influencing U.S. Border Policy with Psyop Tactics
Officials Resign as Public Pressure Intensifies Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation from her post as Secretary of Homeland Security announced yesterday by President Trump on Twitter to be replaced by Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan comes at a...
US Mexico Border Closure
Human Trafficking Increasing in Caravans With another weaponized migrant caravan set to arrive on the US Mexico border inducing a cascading crisis, President Trump’s administration is set to close the border as Mexico abandons its obligations to the US. The...
Trump China Trade Negotiations Push for Progress on Forced Tech Transfers
President Trump’s negotiations with President Xi Jinping report a shocking win on global technology transfers, but US companies need to make the next move. Knocking China out of number one on global exports will take mobilizing the American private sector and...
President Trump to Chase Down Resources in Africa to Combat the Spread of Chinese and Russian Influence
A Quick Look at Nigeria Following the Trump administration’s release of its African strategy the inauguration of which the Nigerian president attended in Washington D.C., Nigeria continues to be a focus point for the US to compete with Chinese investments in Africa as...
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants
Iran Threatens Europe with Drugs and Migrants When will Europe learn that helping Iran skirt sanctions will not reward them with economic gains nor the security they seek. President Rouhani is threatening Europe with floods of migrants to their borders and drugs. It’s...
Solutions Between Security, AID, and Development Problems
[continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts, and Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and...
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament
Weapons Flows, Regional Conflicts, Gun Culture, and Failures of Disarmament [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace and Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior...
Africa’s Wealth of Mineral Resources, Oil and Gas, and Prior Development Attempts
The Gold Rush of Chad, Libya, Sudan, Niger, and Algeria [continued from International Security Crisis and Development in Africa: The Allure of Globalism to Fund the Pursuit of Peace] In an arc stretching from Sudan to Southern Algeria, gold surfaced between 2011 and...
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore Exposes US Government Corruption with Secret Agreements with Iran and Saudi Arabia
Mike “Thomas Paine” Moore writes to expose Former CIA Director John Brennan among others in his book, Paine: How We Dismantled the FBI in Our Pajamas. The book available on Amazon provides an account of one cover up after another by George W. Bush, Barack Obama and...
Ceasefire in Gaza Not Likely to Last
After some 500 rockets were sent into Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, a cease-fire was reached with critics on both sides already gathering in protest. Protests this year have already claimed over 200 Palestinian protesters of the blockade on Gaza. 500...
Sanctions on Iran Working Amidst International Panic
Sanctions on Iran are working. Iran’s government is showing signs of beginning to bleed out by flooding the market with liquidity and providing loans to people on the verge of default, mainly the middle class. However, this does not appear to lessen the level of...
8 Taliban Members Sanctioned After US General Shot in Taliban Attack
US General Shot in Taliban Attack and 8 Taliban Members Sanctioned U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley died after being shot in a Taliban attack also killing 2 Afghan leaders in Kandahar province where the US mission trains and advises Afghan security forces and...
Exploring Issues of Migration, Open Borders, and Trafficking
Turning Crisis into Opportunity for Millions of Migrants Currently in International Flux The 4,000 migrant caravans from Honduras in transit to the Mexico-US border point to two distinct problems that deserve immediate attention. One is the issue of open or closed...
Iran’s Heroin Manufacture Coincides with Legalization of Drug Use in Europe, Canada, the US
Are Safe Injections of Heroin Funding the Taliban and the IRGC? Narcoterrorism is designed to weaken states internally using soft war tactics. Opium killed 64,000 Americans in 2016. Afghanistan is one of the largest producers of opium narcotics with the opium trade...
Strike on Disputed Oil Destination- Kurdistan
Kurkuk Remembered Nearly a year ago, on October 16, 2017 Iraqi and Iran-backed paramilitary forces captured the oil province of Kurkuk from the security forces and Peshmerga of Kurdistan. Now, Kurdish activists are calling for a one hour strike in protest to military...
Trump’s Counterterrorism Strategy Full Span of United States Power
The Framework of a Global Spear President Trump will use the “full span of United States power and use every available tool to combat terrorism at home, abroad and in cyberspace.” Singling out Iran, Pakistan, and others, the strategy contains coordinated efforts...
The Stakes and Hysterics Surrounding Justice Kavanaugh’s Appointment to the Supreme Court
Kavanaugh: One of the Most Critical Appointments in US History The rise of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court comes at a transformational time in the relationship between private and public sectors; changes in culture and worldviews; and new areas of...
UN Orders US to Remove Sanctions on Iran
Amidst New Allegations of Secret Nuclear Sites, Iran prepares for Sanctions to Hit The US government has ended the Treaty of Amity with Iran in order to neutralize the UN threat in its recent decision to uphold Iran’s claim at the ICJ as the US prepares to continue...
The Stakes and Hysterics Surrounding Justice Kavanaugh’s Appointment to the Supreme Court
Kavanaugh: One of the Most Critical Appointments in US History The rise of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court comes at a transformational time in the relationship between private and public sectors; changes in culture and worldviews; and new areas of...
New Saudi Investment in Kurdistan Strengthens Iraq and Accelerates Iran’s Decline
Saudi Material Support the Kurds Kurdish independence is being used to build more pressure on Iran in the region. This is especially visible in the opening of Kurdish and Saudi relations following recent Kurdistan's elections and after sustaining attacks from Iran...
Biggest Trade Deal in US History
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to Target Manufacturing Returning the US to the manufacturing stage as a major powerhouse, the new free trade agreement targets manufacturing, farming, and ranching industries across North America as a three-way trade zone valued at...
Kavenaugh Hearings One Week FBI Investigation
Kavenaugh Hearings: Blake Silenced; Feinstein Exposed; Battling in the Hearing Room “November is Coming,” was the widespread threat to Brett Kavenaugh’s appointment to SCOTUS after tears from Dr. Ford’s “revenge of the Clinton’s for 2016,” and Senator Lindsay Graham’s...
AI Disruption Opportunities for Critical Infrastructure
The Role of Artificial Intelligence to Create Stability From the shaky divide of Israel and Palestine, the destabilization of the EU, to declarations of Kurdish independence and rumbles of armed poverty inside North and South Sudan, the business of establishing peace...
Speakers at the United Nations Address World Trade and Security
Takeaways from President Trump and other UN Speakers President Trump addressed the international community at the United Nations promoting the alternative of patriotism over globalism and strength over coercion and intimidation in the foreign policies of all nations....
Private and Public Security: Future Demands Change
Jeff Sessions on Shootings, Death, and Policing Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently addressing members of law enforcement said plainly, "If you want more shootings, more death, then listen to the ACLU, Antifa, Black Lives Matter and groups who do not know the...
With Self-Government Comes the Choice of New Friends against Old Enemies
Kurds Seek Independence After Iran Missile Strikes With Iran not approving the Erdogan, Putin, Naroduchi negotiations to leave Idlib unharmed and intact suggests the rebel territory may be saved in order to compel the rebels to confront Iran or hold Iranian forces...
Russia’s Diminishing Resources and Proliferation in Unstable Regions
Depletion of Russia’s Mineral Wealth Russia is expected to run out of many of its mineral resources by 2025. Within a decade economically viable reserves of zinc, manganese, copper, nickel, and platinum will have run out, these mineral resources are necessary for...
Energy Solutions to the Problem Grid Part 2
The US Nation’s $177 Billion Electric Bill Investment Gap Most transmission and distribution (T&D) lines of the electric grids in the US were constructed in the 1950s and 60s with only a 50-year life expectancy. There are three main interconnected power grids– the...
Exploring Issues of Migration, Open Borders, and Trafficking
Turning Crisis into Opportunity for Millions of Migrants Currently in International Flux The 4,000 migrant caravans from Honduras in transit to the Mexico-US border point to two distinct problems that deserve immediate attention. One is the issue of open or closed...
Iran’s Heroin Manufacture Coincides with Legalization of Drug Use in Europe, Canada, the US
Are Safe Injections of Heroin Funding the Taliban and the IRGC? Narcoterrorism is designed to weaken states internally using soft war tactics. Opium killed 64,000 Americans in 2016. Afghanistan is one of the largest producers of opium narcotics with the opium trade...
Strike on Disputed Oil Destination- Kurdistan
Kurkuk Remembered Nearly a year ago, on October 16, 2017 Iraqi and Iran-backed paramilitary forces captured the oil province of Kurkuk from the security forces and Peshmerga of Kurdistan. Now, Kurdish activists are calling for a one hour strike in protest to military...
UN Orders US to Remove Sanctions on Iran
Amidst New Allegations of Secret Nuclear Sites, Iran prepares for Sanctions to Hit The US government has ended the Treaty of Amity with Iran in order to neutralize the UN threat in its recent decision to uphold Iran’s claim at the ICJ as the US prepares to continue...
New Saudi Investment in Kurdistan Strengthens Iraq and Accelerates Iran’s Decline
Saudi Material Support the Kurds Kurdish independence is being used to build more pressure on Iran in the region. This is especially visible in the opening of Kurdish and Saudi relations following recent Kurdistan's elections and after sustaining attacks from Iran...
Reconstructed Israeli Attack on Russian Surveillance Mission
Russia Bolsters Syrian Missile Defenses After IL-20M Shot Down Israeli aircraft may have baited a radar lock on the Russian IL-20M surveillance mission by flying so closely that the Syrians accidentally locked on their own target attempting to pick up radar emissions...
CIA Removes top Iran Experts
Iran Specialists in the CIA Step Down Patriots will be pleased to hear that some of the CIA’s top Iran experts are quietly being removed from their posts and transitioning to private sector positions. Leaked emails and cell phone conversations and declassified FISA...
Iran is Starving Yemen to the Brink of Death
With Iran sidelined from Idlib missions in Syria, it may seek retaliation in Yemen as famine and starvation threaten ½ the population. Many are urging an immediate end to the conflict. Pompeo is urging continued US support for the Saudi-led forces. The window of...
With Self-Government Comes the Choice of New Friends against Old Enemies
Kurds Seek Independence After Iran Missile Strikes With Iran not approving the Erdogan, Putin, Naroduchi negotiations to leave Idlib unharmed and intact suggests the rebel territory may be saved in order to compel the rebels to confront Iran or hold Iranian forces...
Syrian Conflict Continues in the Province of Idlib
Airstrikes Expected as Forces Converge on Rebels With as many as 30,000 ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq, the Syrian conflict recently renewed as Assad attempts to neutralize the last pockets of resistance backed by Iran including possible chemical attacks on rebel...
Iran’s Heroin Manufacture Coincides with Legalization of Drug Use in Europe, Canada, the US
Are Safe Injections of Heroin Funding the Taliban and the IRGC? Narcoterrorism is designed to weaken states internally using soft war tactics. Opium killed 64,000 Americans in 2016. Afghanistan is one of the largest producers of opium narcotics with the opium trade...
UN Orders US to Remove Sanctions on Iran
Amidst New Allegations of Secret Nuclear Sites, Iran prepares for Sanctions to Hit The US government has ended the Treaty of Amity with Iran in order to neutralize the UN threat in its recent decision to uphold Iran’s claim at the ICJ as the US prepares to continue...
New Saudi Investment in Kurdistan Strengthens Iraq and Accelerates Iran’s Decline
Saudi Material Support the Kurds Kurdish independence is being used to build more pressure on Iran in the region. This is especially visible in the opening of Kurdish and Saudi relations following recent Kurdistan's elections and after sustaining attacks from Iran...
CIA Removes top Iran Experts
Iran Specialists in the CIA Step Down Patriots will be pleased to hear that some of the CIA’s top Iran experts are quietly being removed from their posts and transitioning to private sector positions. Leaked emails and cell phone conversations and declassified FISA...
China to Train Afghan Counterterrorism Brigade
China has increasing trouble keeping out of regional conflicts as its trade interests continue to expand in the Middle East. Afghanistan's counterterrorism brigade per a recent agreement will now be training in China. The recently discovered mineral wealth in the...
The #FreeIran2018 Movement is Against International Corruption
The Nuclear Deal is 50 Shades of F*CKED There is a lot of confusion and spin being deployed in the mainstream media this week about the integrity of the nuclear agreement and why people are protesting in Iran. There is a public declassified version of the nuclear...
Iran’s Supreme Leader to Give Up Hope
Iran’s Supreme Leader to Give Up Hope “There is no problem with negotiations and keeping contact with the Europeans, but you should give up hope on them over economic issues or the nuclear deal," Iran’s Supreme Leader, Khamenei was quoted as saying according to a Fox...
We Cannot Feed Our Families with Silence
“We cannot hold back because we cannot feed our families with silence,” says a Kermanshah protestor in the winter of 2017-18, according to Iran Human Rights Documentation Center an estimated 5,000 protestors have been arrested as a result of the Iranian protests. Six...
Iran’s Regime Moves Closer to the Edge
Islamic Regime Panics Amid Tanking Economy Iran’s government attempts to intimidate the UN during its lawsuit at the International Court of Justice to lift U.S. sanctions while claiming the Strait of Hormuz with IRGC Naval forces confronting the US Navy in the Gulf....
US, EU, and Reza Pahlavi: United in Solidarity Against Iran Regime
Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds While protestors fight for the release of individuals wrongfully imprisoned by the Iranian government individuals like Mostafa Abdi, a Gonabadi Dervish, Narges Mohammadi, a mother of two, and Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights...
China Investment in the Congo Isn’t Helping
Congo is Rich in Minerals Kinshasa, Congo-- the third largest city in Africa, a fireman sits in full dress in a station that has no walls, no roof, and no amenities. They have all burned. Yet, the river Congo is the world's second-largest river. A young Congolese boy...
Refugee Camps Lead to Slum Cities
Slums Are Growing with an Influx of Refugees The mass migration movements from Syria, and other countries across Africa, are in excess of 60 million displaced people. Recently plans for refugee camps have surfaced that on paper would support the refugees but in...
Terror Colonies of Africa Influenced by Middle Eastern Powers
AQIM, Al Shabab, Boko Haram, and Hezbollah to Tear them Down; GCC and Iran to Build them UP This geographic configuration isn't anything new. Middle East investment in Africa suggests a larger mission of break down local power and rebuild with their own...
Migration in Africa Calls for Innovation in Energy, Food, and Crime Sectors
Energy Shortage Ethiopia’s first waste-to-energy facility started construction in 2013 and was inaugurated this week as part of a United Nations environmental program to transform the Koshe dump site into the Reppie Project. The facility converts waste to energy by...
Tackling the Arc of Instability in Africa
From the Arc of Instability to Africa’s Spear of Smart Cities The African continent currently represents billions of dollars in USAID programming with little to no accountability for performance, anti-corruption measures, or efficiency plans that work towards...
Harnessing the Power of Public-Private Engagement
Growing Dissent, Decline of the Patriotic Spirit, or Globalization As tech monopolies like Google continue to absorb the top performing tech companies and the brightest minds in the robotics field, a recent study by the Air Force Law Review advised the president on a...
Chad Basin Migration and Development and US Critical Infrastructure Investment Project
Archival Institute welcomes Senior Fellow John Melkon to lead an international team tasked to build a statistical model to meeting the challenges of migration and other problems causing regional instability in Africa’s Chad Basin. The task force will examine the...
Interview with Alex Vatanka (Middle East Institute)
Introducing Alex Vantanka He is an Adjunct Scholar at the Middle East Institute in Washington D.C. and as well as the U.S.-based Senior Middle East Analyst at HIS Jane’s. He currently lectures as a Senior Fellow in Middle East Studies at the U.S. Air Force...
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