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  • Top conservative says Donald Trump will be Julius Caesar-esque DICTATOR if he wins in 2024 and could use his enormous power to refuse to stand down in 2028 (Robert Kagan)

    12/03/2023 12:44:12 AM PST · by knighthawk · 113 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | December 3 2023 | SOPHIE MANN
    A famous neoconservative says Donald Trump will become a dictator like Julius Caesar if he wins the 2024 election. In the lengthy Washington Post piece, Robert Kagan lays out his argument that Trump is well on his way to becoming the GOP nominee for president and stands a good chance of defeating Joe Biden in November. He says Trump's second term would see him become the most powerful president in US history, after defeating two impeachments and coming through four indictments, which have only served to turbocharge GOP support.
  • Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War

    The Iraq war debacle, the relative (to Bush) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back. This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as Kaganism: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather a non-partisan 21st century crusade for “liberalism.” Donald Kagan, the patriarch of Kaganism, followed a similar intellectual trajectory to his colleagues Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz: Marxist academics who transformed into rabid Reaganoid Cold Warriors in response to the Soviet Union’s support for Arab nationalism...
  • Vanity: Did Fiona Hill Lie In Testimony Today?

    11/21/2019 7:14:20 PM PST · by Its All Over Except ... · 55 replies
    11/21/2019 | Its All Over Except...
    Almost everyone so far has provided worthless hearsay as did Fiona Hill who left by July 19th before the phone call, but Morrison was listening in on the phone call and said he heard nothing illegal and declated in testimony along with Volker there was Quid Pro Quo, bribery or extortion. She though appears to have lied through her teeth as even left-wing publications like Politico and others have confirmed Ukraine's role in 2016 election interference despite her attempts today to downplay their role. At the very least she would have blatantly and shamelessly provided a False Choice if both...
  • The World Putin Wants

    08/25/2022 9:28:17 PM PDT · by libh8er · 132 replies
    Foreign Affairs ^ | Sept/Oct 2022 | Fiona Hill, Angela Stent
    Vladimir Putin is determined to shape the future to look like his version of the past. Russia’s president invaded Ukraine not because he felt threatened by NATO expansion or by Western “provocations.” He ordered his “special military operation” because he believes that it is Russia’s divine right to rule Ukraine, to wipe out the country’s national identity, and to integrate its people into a Greater Russia. He laid out this mission in a 5,000-word treatise, published in July 2021, entitled, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians.” In it, Putin insisted that Belarusians, Russians, and Ukrainians are all descendants...
  • BREAKING: Former State Dept And CIA Employee Arrested, Charged With Federal Espionage

    06/22/2017 6:11:42 PM PDT · by markomalley · 194 replies
    iBankCoin ^ | 6/22/17
    A former State Department employee was arrested Thursday and charged with espionage for allegedly transmitting Top Secret and Secret documents to a Chinese government agent, according to an affidavit filed with the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA.Kevin Mallory, 60, of Leesburg is a self-employed consultant who speaks fluent Chinese. Court filings show that Mallory was an Army veteran who worked as a special agent for U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service from 1987 to 1990. Since then, Mallory has worked for various government agencies and defense contractors, maintaining a Top Secret security clearance. The Washington Post reports that Mallory...
  • Avoiding a Russian Quagmire, the Improbable Ukrainian Peace, and the Risk of Direct Russo-NATO War

    07/03/2022 8:40:45 PM PDT · by delta7 · 34 replies
    Gordon Hahn ^ | June 30 22 | Gordon Hahn
    Ukraine is losing and will lose its war with Russia. For Moscow not to lose the peace, it is unfortunately the case that a rump Ukraine may no longer provide in Russian eyes the security from the NATO/Ukraine threat it understandably (to some) seeks. Time is running out to avert a larger, truly Ukraine-wide war carried successfully by Moscow into the country’s more anti-Russian western regions and Kiev, putting an end to the Ukrainian state in lieu of NATO military intervention. However, a Russian-occupied Ukraine will simmer with partisan warfare and neofascist terrorism for some time, leaving the risk of...
  • Gen. John Allen, anti-ISIS envoy under Obama, rips Trump in Foreign Policy op-ed (barf alert)

    06/04/2020 2:04:24 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 40 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 03 2020 | Dom Calicchio
    President Trump’s words and actions Monday – railing against “weak” governors and mayors, then holding a Bible outside a historic church near the White House – may have marked “the beginning of the end” of American democracy, a retired four-star Marine Corps general writes in an op-ed article. “The slide of the United States into illiberalism may well have begun on June 1, 2020,” John Allen, who served as a special envoy for the global alliance against ISIS under former President Barack Obama and now heads the Brookings Institution think tank, writes in Foreign Policy magazine. “Remember the date. It...
  • Why The Special Counsel Needs To Fight For More Spygate Documents, Stat

    06/05/2022 11:22:40 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 2 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 03, 2022 | Margot Cleveland
    Special Counsel John Durham’s prosecution of Igor Danchenko, the Russian national who served as Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source, will soon heat up—maybe as early as next week, if prosecutors are wise and return to the grand jury to obtain the documents the Hillary Clinton campaign wrongfully withheld based on attorney-client privilege. Those documents will likely reveal Fusion GPS peddled Danchenko’s lies directly to reporters. The jury’s acquittal of former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann after less than a day of deliberations represented a setback to Durham’s three-year investigation of the Russia collusion hoax. Americans nonetheless learned much from the prosecution,...
  • FBI seizes data of retired general related to Qatar lobbying effort

    06/08/2022 4:16:24 PM PDT · by markomalley · 22 replies
    Just the News ^ | 6/8/22 | Sophie Mann
    Retired four-star Marine Gen. John Allen, is on administrative leave from his role as president of the Brookings Institute D.C. think tank after the FBI seized his electronic data on suspicion of lying to investigators and withholding evidence about his role in secretly lobbying for the government of Qatar. As a general, he commanded all U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in the Obama administration. The court records, which were unsealed Tuesday, are the latest public evidence showing the FBI and Justice Department are conducting a large-scale investigation into the stateside influence of wealthy Arab nations including Qatar, Saudi Arabia...
  • "Oh, Fiona!" Is Fiona Hill the anonymous author of the op-ed?

    09/08/2018 6:46:12 AM PDT · by Caipirabob · 87 replies
    CHILL on Twiiter ^ | 09/06/2018 | CHILL on Twitter
    "Oh, Fiona!" Take the quotes in the “anonymous” op-ed and run a search. You’ll find her there. Offered as food for thought but the author makes a compelling argument.
  • Breaking Mark Meadows — ‘Trump asked me to declassify new spygate documents this morning’

    10/05/2020 8:44:34 AM PDT · by rxsid · 78 replies
    Breaking Mark Meadows — ‘Trump asked me to declassify new spygate documents this morning’ Here's Meadows revealing that the president requested to declassify the documents that Devin Nunes asked for, which include the second and third Danchenko interviews. Of course you can always count on the Fox & Friends crew to completely miss the momentousness of that news. pic.twitter.com/oVzqqXPhGv— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) October 5, 2020   And here's what Nunes asked for, specifically the underlying evidence that shows that Danchenko and Steele were hired to "cover up what the Clinton campaign was doing", as well as the Danchenko interviews. pic.twitter.com/UryZpsi3uv—...
  • The real ‘collusion’ was the creation of ‘RussiaGate’ out of absolutely nothing

    11/05/2021 2:46:10 PM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 11/04/2021 | Post Editorial Board
    They made it all up. If you haven’t been paying attention to all the ins and outs of RussiaGate and the so-called “collusion” scandal, that’s all you need to know about Thursday’s arrest of Russian analyst Igor Danchenko. ---SNIP--- How’s that for a vicious circle? Clinton officials feed their Russian stooge disinformation, it gets laundered through British spy Christopher Steele, and the FBI uses it as the basis for wiretapping the future president’s team. This, with the active connivance of Obama intelligence officials such as James Clapper and John Brennan, who certainly knew the dossier was utter bull but publicly...
  • DURHAM ARRESTS STEELE’S TOP SOURCE

    11/04/2021 7:55:36 AM PDT · by EVO X · 58 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | 11/4/2021 | Michael Ginsber
    Federal agents arrested Igor Danchenko, the primary researcher of a dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, as part of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the origins of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The charges against Danchenko are not yet known, since Durham’s indictment is sealed.
  • The Need for a Mandatory National Service Program

    04/24/2021 11:12:13 AM PDT · by Theophilus · 77 replies
    U.S. Naval Institute ^ | April 2021 | Steve Cohen
    The Need for a Mandatory National Service Program By Steve Cohen April 2021 Proceedings Vol. 147/4/1,418 COMMENTARY FacebookTwitterRedditEmailShare COMMENTS The United States has a history of big, bold initiatives. Americans as individuals, however, have largely forgotten them. The New Deal is barely taught in school, most students do not understand why the United States fought World War II, and the Apollo space program might be remembered as an okay Tom Hanks film. Yet, big challenges and ideas have been at the core of American exceptionalism—itself a barely-remembered concept—since the founding of the Republic. Today, in the shadow of a devastating...
  • John Durham scrutinizes Steele dossier source through Brookings Institution subpoena: Report

    04/13/2021 12:51:00 AM PDT · by blueplum · 24 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | 12 Apr 2021 | Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter
    Special counsel John Durham is reportedly scrutinizing British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s main source for his discredited dossier, using a subpoena to obtain documents from the Brookings Institution related to its employment of Igor Danchenko, a researcher who visited Russia in 2016 as he worked for the ex-MI6 agent. The New York Times reported on Monday, citing “people familiar with the investigation," that Durham “has keyed in on the FBI’s handling of a notorious dossier of political opposition research both before and after the bureau started using it to obtain court permission to wiretap a former Trump campaign adviser." The outlet...
  • Brookings Institution Partnered With Shanghai Policy Center Under Scrutiny for Spying

    08/14/2020 6:44:51 PM PDT · by MarvinStinson · 7 replies
    freebeacon ^ | AUGUST 14, 2020 | Alana Goodman
    Shanghai Academy acts as a front for Chinese spy recruitment, according to FBI The Brookings Institution, a prominent Washington, D.C., think tank, partnered with a Shanghai policy center that the FBI has described as a front for China’s intelligence and spy recruitment operations, according to public records and federal court documents. The Brookings Doha Center, the think tank’s hub in Qatar, signed a memorandum of understanding with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in January 2018, the institution said. The academy is a policy center funded by the Shanghai municipal government that has raised flags within the FBI. The partnership...
  • Gregg Jarrett: Why Steele's secret source working at the Brookings Institution 'makes sense'

    07/28/2020 7:13:17 AM PDT · by jazusamo · 14 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 28, 2020 | Gregg Jarrett
    The primary source for former British spy Christopher Steele's unverified dossier working for the Brookings Institution research group "makes sense," Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Tuesday. In an interview on "Fox & Friends," Jarrett explained that he had previously run into former Brookings Institution senior research analyst Igor Danchenko's name several times. "I could never piece it together. Because frankly...it is so wild and stupid that Steele's source was not from Russia but -- it's a guy in Washington, D.C. working for the liberal Brookings Institution," he said. "Now, it sort of makes sense because the president of...
  • How Black Lives Matter’s Antagonism To Marriage And Family Hurts Black Americans

    06/16/2020 9:02:12 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 24 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 16, 2020 | Glenn T. Stanton
    BLM seeks to dismantle the very institution that research consistently shows is most likely to aid and empower black Americans: the natural family. Black Lives Matter — the organization, not the irrefutably true statement — has taken center stage in the necessary debate on race today, overshadowing others like the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.All know that BLM’s leadership is strongly calling for the defunding and possible abolishment of local police departments. This proposal has been resisted or dodged by leading Democrats for various reasons. But what about BLM’s view of the family as a resource for black...
  • Former Clinton Official Named as Russian Dupe (Strobe Talbott)

    03/04/2008 7:45:08 PM PST · by river rat · 159 replies · 1,646+ views
    Accuracy in Media ^ | March 04, 2008 | AIM Report
    Snip..... In what could be the biggest State Department scandal since State Department official and United Nations founder Alger Hiss was exposed as a Soviet spy, a top Clinton State Department official and former Time magazine journalist has been identified as having been a trusted contact of the Russian intelligence service. Snip... The sensational charge against Strobe Talbott is made in a new book based on interviews with a Russian defector. Snip... Talbott has been and continues to be a major foreign policy thinker. Back in 2000, when he was named head of the Yale Center for the Study of...
  • Chief Justice Roberts now dragged into Democrat impeachment process

    11/22/2019 6:36:42 AM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 85 replies
    American Thinker ^ | November 22, 2019 | Ed Timperlake
    The target of Democrat zealots in the House of Representatives lead by Speaker Pelosi and Adam Schiff is to impeach and remove President Donald Trump. Sadly for him the person they have a much higher probability of removing from his lofty perch is Chief Justice John Roberts. The famous cliché; the law of unintended consequences is fast approaching. ... Since the Constitution definitely states it must be the “Chief Justice” by title that presides over a Senate trail it can easily be understood and fully accepted that provision (b) of serving in government employment is not an ABA ethical disqualification....