Senate votes to approve massive $700 billion in 2018 defense spending

Senate votes to approve massive $700 billion in 2018 defense spending

The U.S. Senate passed its own version of the new defense budget on Monday, surpassing even President Trump’s requests for an increase in funding to bolster the nation’s military.  Although the chamber is Republican controlled, the $700 billion defense policy bill received support from both sides of the aisle on its way to an 89-8 […]

US Ambassador tells UN she’s ‘perfectly happy’ to turn North Korean situation over to ‘General Mattis’

US Ambassador tells UN she’s ‘perfectly happy’ to turn North Korean situation over to ‘General Mattis’

Nikki Haley, America’s Ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council on Saturday that they have “pretty much exhausted” their options in dealing with North Korea’s continued efforts to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missile platforms intended to deliver them.  Haley went on to say that the appropriate course of action at this point […]

REVEALED: Tunisian president’s family links to ‘illegal’ UAE oil deal

REVEALED: Tunisian president’s family links to ‘illegal’ UAE oil deal

A Bermuda-registered oil company owned by the ruling family of Dubai and legally represented by the brother of Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi was handed oil exploration rights by the Tunisian government in a move described as “totally illegal” by a local anti-corruption watchdog. Documents relating to the deal were published in a report this week by […]

Lawmaker tried negotiating deal with Trump to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Lawmaker tried negotiating deal with Trump to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California called White House Chief of Staff John Kelly this week to negotiate a deal to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report claims that Rohrabacher, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, would have submitted evidence that Russia was not the […]

McKeague takes over DPAA amid praise and a note of somber realism

McKeague takes over DPAA amid praise and a note of somber realism

With few exceptions, the DoD announcement on Labor Day of retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Kelly K. McKeague as director of the Department of POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has been met mostly with praise. McKeague was finally appointed 16 months after the first director resigned in June 2016. During that hiatus, there has been derision […]

UN Security Council unanimously approves strictest sanctions yet on North Korea

UN Security Council unanimously approves strictest sanctions yet on North Korea

The United Nations Security Council came to a unanimous agreement on new sanctions to be imposed on North Korea on Monday.  These new sanctions come as a direct result of North Korea’s largest nuclear test to date, executed on September 3rd, that appeared to indicate that Kim Jong un’s regime now has the ability to produce […]

John Kelly stands strong in response to Rep. Gutierrez attack

John Kelly stands strong in response to Rep. Gutierrez attack

When a member of the Trump administration is on the receiving end of a personal attack from a prominent member of Congress or the media, there is little chance they will turn a blind eye to it.  For White House Chief of Staff, John Kelly, his response to Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez’s absurd accusations relating […]

Op-Ed: Russia’s paying to post lies in your newsfeed… but do we have the moral high ground?

Op-Ed: Russia’s paying to post lies in your newsfeed… but do we have the moral high ground?

The recent revelation that Russian entities funneled money into marketing on social media platforms like Facebook in order to create dissent within the American population, particularly regarding the 2016 presidential election, has made waves on social media, and for good reason.  With many Americans continuing to counter concerns about Russian meddling as either non-existent or […]

How Jeff Sessions misrepresented the Trump Administration’s expansion of military supplies for police

How Jeff Sessions misrepresented the Trump Administration’s expansion of military supplies for police

The Trump administration made false assertions to justify an executive order expanding police forces’ access to military equipment such as tanks and grenade launchers. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Monday that President Trump would make defensive gear available to police again by undoing a policy from the Obama administration. Trump then signed an executive order whose […]