Month: November 2020

Biden’s foreign policy: the return of American exceptionalism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Biden’s foreign policy: the return of American exceptionalism

Karim Sadjadpour, a foreign policy expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: “Tony and Jake still believe in the idea of American exceptionalism.”

However, Mr Sadjadpour, who knows both Mr Blinken and Mr Sullivan, said they would instinctually veer away from military adventurism in favour of diplomacy and de-escalation. He added they shared Mr Biden’s belief that America “must lead by the power of its example not only the example of its power”.

Martin Indyk, a former US ambassador now at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the duo had learned to be “very wary of regime change” and would steer away from overthrowing governments.

I’ll believe it, when I see it!

Trump wants to throw out ballots from 238,000 Wisconsin voters

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump wants to throw out ballots from 238,000 Wisconsin voters

In an election decided in Wisconsin by about 20,000 votes, President Donald Trump wants to throw out more than 200,000 ballots.

The Trump campaign is seeking to disqualify 238,420 ballots cast during the Nov. 3 election between Dane and Milwaukee counties, according to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis — an effort that has been unsuccessful so far as part of recounts in both counties but could end up in court.

This is BS!

Acting SecDef Visits Somalia Amid Rumors of Troop Withdrawal

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Acting SecDef Visits Somalia Amid Rumors of Troop Withdrawal

President Trump dramatically escalated the drone war against al-Shabab by loosening the rules of engagement in Somalia. In 2019, the US conducted 63 airstrikes in Somalia, the most in a single year. More bombs fell on Somalia in the first seven months of 2020 than during the entire administrations of George W Bush and Barack Obama combined.

The Chinese Uyghur Dark Legend and Washington’s Campaign to Counter Chinese Economic Rivalry

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Chinese Uyghur Dark Legend and Washington’s Campaign to Counter Chinese Economic Rivalry

Dig below the surface of the allegations that Beijing is abusing its Muslim population, and you won’t find concentration camps and genocide, but a US-led effort to create a Chinese dark legend. The roots of the demonization campaign are to be found in Washington’s desire to counter China’s challenge to US economic supremacy.

On Orwell

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

On Orwell

The only people who misunderstand George Orwell’s 1984 are those that go around trying to imagine it has a “leftist” message. It is mistaken to imagine that children in the English-speaking world get his work drilled into them like a mantra because, somehow, genuine socialists managed to sneak his work past a censor that banishes the likes of Karl Marx and Malcolm X.

‘State-sponsored terrorism’: John Brennan slams reported assassination of Iranian scientist

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

‘State-sponsored terrorism’: John Brennan slams reported assassination of Iranian scientist

“This was a criminal act and highly reckless,” Brennan charged. “It risks lethal retaliation and a new round of regional conflict.”

He urged Iran to remember that President-elect Joe Biden will take office in January.

“Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage and to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits,” he counseled.

“I do not know whether a foreign government authorized or carried out…the murder of Fakhrizadeh. Such an act of state-sponsored terrorism would be a flagrant violation of international law and encourage more governments to carry out lethal attacks against foreign officials,” Brennan warned.

Trump Pentagon deploys USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf: report

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump Pentagon deploys USS Nimitz aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf: report

“The official said the move was decided before news came of the assassination of a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist,” Starr explained. “But the movement of the US forces is an increased deterrence message to Iran regardless the official noted.”

“The movement puts increased American military firepower and thousands of personnel into the region through the end of the Trump Administration. It may be up to President-elect Joe Biden to decide when to withdraw them,” she added.

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