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Sebastian Gorka’s Long History of Denying the Right Wing Terrorism Threat
by Eli Clifton A review of Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka’s comments over the past two years reveals a consistent dismissal of any suggestion that non-jihadist terrorism poses any threat to Americans....
View ArticleDHS Official Katharine Gorka Posts Video Condemning DNC Ties to “Left Wing...
by Eli Clifton A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official who worked to eliminate a grant supporting efforts to de-radicalize neo-Nazis has shared, via Facebook, a Fox News video defending...
View ArticleNew Senior Adviser to US Ambassador to Israel: Ideology Trumps Experience
by Marsha B. Cohen Aryeh Lightstone, an orthodox rabbi with no diplomatic experience, is now the senior adviser to US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. In 2014-15, Lightstone served as CEO of...
View ArticleAnti-Iran Deal Billionaire Tom Kaplan Lashes Out at Iran
by Eli Clifton A couple hours before and a few blocks away from where President Donald Trump delivered a speech to the United Nations on Monday, a group of anti-Iran deal advocates held their annual...
View ArticleAre Billionaire Donors Driving Trump’s Iran Policy?
by Eli Clifton President Donald Trump’s latest denunciation of the Iran nuclear deal (also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA) at the United Nations was hardly a surprise. Indeed,...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why Trump Is Moving Towards War With Iran
by Trita Parsi Make no mistake: We do not have a crisis over the Iran nuclear deal. It is working and everyone from Secretary Mattis and Tillerson to the US and Israeli intelligence services to the...
View ArticleTrump Ignores Advisers on Iran Deal, Follows Money
by Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe Although much of the Washington commentariat has depicted Trump’s extraordinarily bellicose speech Friday against Iran and the nuclear deal as the latest example of his...
View ArticleFuture of JCPOA In Hands of GOP Indebted To Billionaire Iran Hawks
by Eli Clifton President Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), appears to have fallen in line with the views espoused by...
View ArticleDid Trump Greenlight Neoconservative Takeover of State Dept. and CIA?
by Eli Clifton Donald Trump is likely to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo and choose Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) to take over the intelligence agency, according to...
View ArticleTrump’s Biggest Donor Pushed for Jerusalem Embassy Move
by Eli Clifton On Wednesday, President Donald Trump may announce U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital while continuing to keep the U.S. embassy in in Tel Aviv. The move goes toward...
View ArticleNYT’s Argentina Op-Ed Fails to Disclose Authors’ Financial Conflict of Interest
by Eli Clifton On Tuesday, Mark Dubowitz and Toby Dershowitz, two executives at the hawkish Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), took to the op-ed pages of The New York Times to celebrate last...
View ArticleIran Hawks Embrace Protest Movement But Show Little Concern for Iranian Lives
by Eli Clifton As the protests across Iran reach the one-week point, Iran hawks are using their echo chamber to claim concern for the wellbeing of Iranian protesters and pushing the Trump...
View ArticleTom Cotton Appointed “Never Trump” Bill Kristol’s Son Legislative Director
by Eli Clifton Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies in the Senate, advising Trump before the alleged “shithole” comments about Haitians and African immigrants and on...
View ArticleGorka Joins Outlet That Published “Ten Things I Hate About Jews”
by Eli Clifton Sebastian Gorka’s role as a deputy assistant to President Donald Trump ended in August 2017. A series of investigative articles tied him to Vitezi Rend, a Hungarian group the State...
View ArticleDoes Menendez Owe a Debt to Adelson and Trump?
by Eli Clifton Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), freshly cleared of corruption charges following the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against him, is set to return to his job as the top...
View ArticleAdelson-Funded Friends of Israel Excuse European Alt-Right’s Anti-Semitism
by Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton A familiar group of super-hawkish, anti-Iran U.S. billionaires has been spending millions of dollars on a rather eclectic and somewhat bizarre organization of mainly foreign...
View ArticlePompeo: Springtime for Irano/Islamophobes
by Jim Lobe and Eli Clifton “Great news for the Republic!” tweeted Sebastian Gorka, on hearing the news that CIA Director Mike Pompeo is replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Gorka, who was...
View ArticleIs Mike Pompeo as Islamophobic as His Spiritual Adviser?
by Eli Clifton An examination by LobeLog of statements and studies by Secretary of State-designate Mike Pompeo’s “spiritual adviser” reveals a deeply ingrained anti-Muslim theology coupled with a...
View ArticleTrump’s Choice of Bolton Satisfies His Biggest Donor
by Eli Clifton and Jim Lobe Last August, shortly after John Kelly replaced Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and Steve Bannon was fired as the president’s chief strategist, John Bolton...
View ArticleBolton-Led Group Partnered With Racist, Anti-Semitic Website
by Eli Clifton President Donald Trump’s incoming national security adviser, John Bolton, is best known for his one-size-fits-all policy prescriptions for geopolitical challenges facing the U.S. in...
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