U.S. hopes N. Korea will respond positively to outreach for dialogue: State Dept.
Tag: Ned Price
Venezuela: US continues meddling with election & Documents Show How the US Government Used Social Media to Intervene in Venezuela
Heads Roll As Biden Policies Move To The Right
Heads Roll As Biden Policies Move To The Right
To save its falling ratings the Biden administration is not only moving to a more hawkish position on immigration and foreign policies. It is also removing officials who are not hawkish enough.
Paywalled articles, archived (search for links on archive.today or web.archive.org):
Charges of racism swirl as Haitian Americans, allies unite to protest Biden’s border crisis
Pentagon removes top nuclear policy official from post
Related:
Top U.S. envoy to Haiti resigns over “inhumane” expulsions of migrants at border
A Cult, a Fake Gov’t & US-funded NGOs Hold Panels Panning China
Taliban advances in Afghanistan, U.S. and Britain to evacuate embassies
Taliban advances in Afghanistan, U.S. and Britain to evacuate embassies
“President Biden is finding that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it,” McConnell said, urging him instead to commit to providing more support to Afghan forces. “Without it, al Qaeda and the Taliban may celebrate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by burning down our Embassy in Kabul.”
Related:
Rapid Taliban advances in Afghanistan have the US military launching strikes to destroy captured artillery and armored vehicles
Related:
US troops ‘will temporarily deploy’ to Afghanistan to help evacuate diplomats
ICYMI: The Pentagon has quietly established two new Afghanistan-linked offices, including its Defense Security Cooperation Management Office-Afghanistan, and the Over-the-Horizon Counterterrorism Headquarters, both based in Qatar. (Tip of the hat to Dr. Jonathan Schroden, who directs CNA’s Countering Threats and Challenges Program.)
– Defense One
The US isn’t going to leave Afghanistan alone:
China emerges as reliable partner for Afghan development
US Fingerprints on Terrorism Aimed At China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
U.S. State Dept. No.2 Sherman speaks with Myanmar shadow government + Reuters, UK Gov, & BBC Prepare Ground for Myanmar Intervention
Friends and family of a top suspect in the Haiti assassination say they believe he’s being framed + What the American accused of plotting to kill Haiti’s President told police
U.S. State Department Searching for Ways to ‘Support’ Cuban Protestors + Mayorkas tells fleeing Haitian, Cuban migrants to not come to U.S.
U.S. State Department Searching for Ways to ‘Support’ Cuban Protestors
Price went through the typical talking points of proponents of the embargo. He said there are exemptions for humanitarian goods. But study after study has shown, no matter how many exemptions, US economic sanctions still have a negative impact on the supply of food and medicine because it discourages companies from doing any business with the targeted countries.
Related:
Mayorkas tells fleeing Haitian, Cuban migrants to not come to U.S.
Pentagon whistle-blower under US govt probe for publishing op-eds at Global Times
Pentagon whistle-blower under US govt probe for publishing op-eds at Global Times
Related:
In May 2007, amid a U.S. troop surge in Iraq, Wired magazine published a piece titled “Military Dragged Feet on Bomb-Proof Vehicles.” The article unleashed a whirlwind of controversy that led to congressional hearings and, ultimately, hundreds of millions of dollars for lifesaving equipment.
The exposé didn’t mention Gayl, but he had leaked a key document to Wired. As a science adviser to the Marine Corps, he had recently returned from a stint in Iraq, where he had seen signs the military had delayed the rollout of much-needed armored vehicles known as MRAPs. Gayl briefed the staffs of Sens. Biden and Kit Bond (R-Mo.), who both later praised him as a “hero.”
…
Gayl claims he didn’t receive any blowback over the first op-ed, but that changed after he wrote another claiming “China-averse special interests” in the United States were “othering” or trying to “dehumanize” the Chinese in preparation for a war.
Op-eds in a Chinese state tabloid slammed U.S. policy. The author works at the Pentagon.
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
You must be logged in to post a comment.