Biden envoy, Joseph Yun, helped shape defensive policy for the Pacific islands while consulting for a private firm that represents a massive conflict of interest.
The Military Industrial Complex Has an Inside Man in the Pacific
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Armenia is pivoting to the West + More

This claim that Azerbaijan is establishing itself under the autocractic influence of Russia explains most of the perception managing narrative presented via the media lately.
Armenia is pivoting to the West, it’s time for Europe to step up
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‘Armenia is pivoting to the West. It’s time for Europe to step up’
For the past year, I have been working with and advising the Armenian government on their efforts to strengthen their democracy and promote peace in the South Caucasus. This is something I believe deeply in. That is why I launched the independent Friends of Armenia Network – a high-level group that includes former prime ministers, European commissioners, ministers, and sitting parliamentarians. In a report published on March 27, we proposed a detailed approach that the European Union should take to help make Armenia’s Western, democratic trajectory irreversible.
– Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Rasmussen Global: Anders Fogh Rasmussen launches high-level group to support democratic Armenia
Rasmussen’s Report: Deepening EU-Armenia relations: More Europe in Armenia
“Friends of Armenia” turned out to be crooks, schemers and chumps
Russia MFA: Friends of Armenia Network report objective is to tear Armenia from Russia, EAEU
USAID: U.S. Enhances Support For Armenia At The U.S.-EU High-Level Meeting
2002: Divided They Conquer: Armenian Ethnic Lobbies in the United States (Most are still active) – H/T: Penny2
Venezuela: Disqualified Politicians Can Launch Supreme Court Appeal
Mexico City, Mexico, December 1, 2023 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The Venezuelan government and the US-backed hardline opposition have agreed to allow the country’s Supreme Court to review the cases of candidates disqualified from running for public office, the parties announced Thursday via Norwegian mediators.
Venezuela: Disqualified Politicians Can Launch Supreme Court Appeal
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again
At some point over the past few years, the Biden administration revoked one of the few progressive policies that Trump-era officials implemented in the effort to bring greater transparency to foreign influence in Washington. The New Republic has learned that with little fanfare, and with even less explanation, the White House has stopped requesting that American think tanks disclose funding from foreign governments. “This is not the policy of the U.S. State Department,” an agency spokesperson said last month.
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again (archived)
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?
Patients and doctors expect drug regulators to provide an unbiased, rigorous assessment of investigational medicines before they hit the market. But do they have sufficient independence from the companies they are meant to regulate? Maryanne Demasi investigates
From FDA to MHRA: are drug regulators for hire?
Justice Department sues Google to break up its advertising empire
Biden Chief of Staff: PEU to PEU
President Biden will change his Chief of Staff in the near future. Current Chief of Staff Ron Klain (Revolution LLC) will be replaced by Jeff Zients (The Cranemere Group and Portfolio Logic LLC). Biden will go from one private equity underwriter (PEU) to another.
Biden Chief of Staff: PEU to PEU
Corruption Caught On Tape
During a televised hearing, a Wall Street-friendly GOP lawmaker thanked a bank CEO for hiring his top aide.
Corruption Caught On Tape
US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard
After the August 20 car-bomb assassination of Darya Dugina, the daughter of a Russian ultranationalist political philosopher, US media outlets quickly branded the 29-year-old as an agent in Russia’s “disinformation war.” Rather than treating her as a member of the civilian press, they seemed to downplay her death as a casualty of war.
US Media Held Murdered Russian Journalist to a Dangerous Standard
NY Times claim that Russia drove attacks on Linda Sarsour is nonsense
Did Russian government trolls really drive a pro-Israel, anti-Muslim campaign targeting Palestinian American Democratic Party activist Linda Sarsour?
NY Times claim that Russia drove attacks on Linda Sarsour is nonsense
H/T: Katie Halper

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