CIA director made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet Zelenskyy and pledge deeper US support
CIA director William J. Burns made a secret visit to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledge deeper US support, CNN reported Wednesday, citing two sources familiar with the trip.
Burns traveled to Kyiv earlier this month, CNN said. His trips are usually kept secret, The New York Times reported.
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The New York Post’s Twitter account sent out several disturbing, since-deleted tweets this morning encouraging political violence against high-profile Democratic leaders with some racism and misogyny sprinkled in for good measure. Evidence of the nefariousness is below, and is tough to read.
Someone Is Causing All Sorts of Headaches for the New York Post
FRANKFURT – BASF said costs at its European sites must be cut to a “permanently” smaller size because of a triple burden of sluggish growth, high energy costs and over-regulation, with the German industrial giant’s boss throwing his weight behind a planned expansion in China.
BASF seeks ‘permanent’ cost cuts at European operations
Brandon’s handlers are going to be disappointed! Businesses are supposed to move to the US! Time to twist Olaf’s arm (again)! Maybe tell him that Germany needs to decouple from China, as well?! /s
Decades of failed policy, including US and French counterterrorism programs, have some African leaders looking for alternatives.
Western paternalism in Africa reaches its limits
After Saudi leaders pushed to slash oil production despite a visit by President Biden, administration officials have been left fuming that they were duped.
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“I keep listening to, ‘Are you with us or against us?’ Is there any room for, ‘We are for Saudi Arabia and the people of Saudi Arabia’?” he said. “We will have to deliver our ambitions.”
U.S. Officials Had a Secret Oil Deal With the Saudis. Or So They Thought.
Biden Orders Progressives to Denounce Themselves on Ukraine
Congressional “progressives” are cowards and charlatans. They may actually believe in some of what they claim to espouse but at the end of the day they are more opportunistic than anything else. They have carved out a niche for themselves in certain parts of the country where voters are in fact progressive and want to see their political ideology put into practice. But good luck ever seeing that when the leader of the Congressional Progressive Caucus makes a fool of herself and her members when they didn’t have the courage of their very slim convictions.
According to Ryan Grim, Kevin McCarthy didn’t say that he would stop funding Ukraine. He was basically referring to his voters.
Haitians are in the streets against puppet governments, harsh austerity measures, poverty and neglect, and decades of foreign coups and invasions. Stop the new US led re-invasion and occupation of Haiti!
Send an email to US and UN Authorities to demand NO FOREIGN INVASION IN HAITI!!!
Open Letter on Haiti Intervention to ALBA Secretary General Sacha Llorenti
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The US is ushering a new foreign policy doctrine through “The Global Fragility Act.” We need to not only understand these new forms of imperial practice, but to also see the cunning use of language in the service of US imperialism.
Prologue: The Global Fragility Act, April 2022
Defense News | October 25, 2022
Ukraine-bound NASAMS are in US hands now: Raytheon
Raytheon Technologies has delivered two sophisticated NASAMS air defense systems due for Ukraine to United States government, its chief executive said Tuesday.
Raytheon provides Pentagon with interceptor missiles for war in Ukraine
Speaking with former judge Andrew Napolitano in a recent interview (uploaded yesterday) and embedded below, Col. (ret.) Douglas MacGregor, a former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, says:
Douglas MacGregor issues a dire warning that US is preparing for direct military engagement with Russia over Ukraine
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