Kushner Under Fire for Receiving $30M From Israeli Firm While Shaping Middle East Policy

“While Mr. Kushner has sold parts of his business since taking a White House job last year, he still has stakes in most of the family empire—including the apartment buildings in and around Baltimore.”

Jake Johnson
بواسطة Jake Johnson
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, speaks with Haim Saban, about the Trump administration's approach to the Middle East region at the Saban Forum in Washington, DC (Brookings Institute Twitter)

President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is once more under intense scrutiny after new reporting revealed that his lucrative financial relationship with Israel has deepened even as his influence over U.S. Middle East policy—from his leading role in Trump's effort to "derail" a U.N. vote against Israel to his sway over

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ولادة التمرد: "الصفقة السرية" الأمريكية الإسرائيلية للتلاعب بالاحتجاجات في إيران

ومع عمل إدارتي ترامب ونتنياهو الآن بشكل متناغم، فإن العداء الأمريكي الإسرائيلي تجاه إيران قد نضج الآن وتحول إلى خطة لتكرار ما حدث في سوريا منذ أكثر من ست سنوات – اختطاف الاحتجاجات الصغيرة وتحويلها إلى غطاء لتمرد ممول من الخارج. تهدف إلى الإطاحة بالحكومة الإيرانية المنتخبة.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
President Donald Trump talks to reporters before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, May 22, 2017, in Jerusalem. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Using the recent protests as cover, the governments of the United States and Israel are advancing a much larger plan for covert regime change against the Iranian government, one born out of the “secret deal” negotiated and signed between the two countries right before the widely covered but relatively small protests in Iran began in late

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The Undrained Swamp: Wasteful Spending Marks End Of Fiscal Year In DC

Rule Number One for federal agencies approaching the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30 is “don’t get caught with any unspent funds.” Buy something — anything — or Congress will cut your budget going forward. Swamp-drainer Trump’s first year in DC continues the long tradition of September binge spending.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Government spending, government waste

Despite promises of fiscal conservatism, a balanced budget, and a reduced federal deficit, the Trump administration has given in to a “use it or lose it” spending frenzy spurred by the end of the 2017 fiscal year. The spending binge, long a fixture in previous administrations, took place during the end of September, as federal agencies chose to

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US Turns to Ukraine for Next Russia Proxy War Gambit

With Ukraine rolling out a murderous ethnic cleansing campaign in its Donbass region on the Russian border, the Russian government has responded with restraint. The new provision of arms to Ukraine by the U.S. will likely change that — and start a proxy war more dangerous than Syria’.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
John McCain Ukraine Nazi

Just weeks after announcing a plan to arm the Ukrainian government with lethal weapons, the Pentagon announced on Friday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis – who has endorsed the plan – will be traveling to Ukraine this coming week in order to reassure the government in Kiev that the U.S. is “firmly committed to the goal of restoring Ukraine’s

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Trump Cabinet Members Hold Weekly Bible Study In The White House

While Christian groups protest Trump’s policies, cabinet meets with pastor to study scripture

Julia Conley
بواسطة Julia Conley
Mike Pence pauses while administering the oath of office to Energy Secretary Rick Perry, March 2, 2017. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

The founder of a group dedicated to making "disciples of Jesus Christ in the political arena" has been leading a Bible study with top members of the Trump administration. Ralph Drollinger of Capitol Ministries has been working with cabinet members including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Health and Human

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US Targets Syria, Iran and Russia with Same Chemical Weapons Claims

On Monday, award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh exposed the U.S.’ justification for bombing the Syrian government in April as having been based on a lie. But the U.S. is still using the same debunked justification to target not only the Syrian government, but also Russia and Iran.

Whitney Webb
بواسطة Whitney Webb
Nikki Haley, United States' Ambassador United Nations, shows pictures of Syrian victims of chemical attacks as she addresses a meeting of the Security Council on Syria at U.N. headquarters, April 5, 2017. (AP/Bebeto Matthews)

On Monday, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh – best known for breaking some of the biggest stories of the Vietnam and Iraq wars – managed to prove that the Trump administration’s decision to bomb Syrian government territory was based on false pretenses that were entirely unsupported by U.S. military intelligence. The bombing, which

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