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In case you haven’t noticed, DONALD TRUMP has every intention of throwing his weight around in Republican primaries in 2022. And whether it’s for an incumbent looking to ward off an intraparty threat or a challenger aiming to knock off a sitting senator, his endorsement matters a lot. Even candidates in safe seats stand to raise a ton of money if they can manage to secure Trump’s imprimatur.
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Former Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker and ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (US Department of State) Washington - Muath al-Amri
Former US assistant secretary of Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker revealed that the administration of ex-President Donald Trump had tried to hold direct talks with the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen before designating the militias a terrorist in January.
In an interview with Robert Sotloff for the Washington Institute, he said that the administration tried to hold the talks with the Houthis, through an Omani mediator, in late December 2020. The militias, however, rejected the proposal.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are demanding the federal government beef up cybersecurity, pointing to a series of attacks from hostile nations and the Department of Homeland Security’s current inability to detect and deter complex cyberattacks.
By Dave Gahary
George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
That ominous warning was clearly on display last month when Philip Giraldi one of the heavyweights who has been able to cross the line between the alternative media and the established media was banned from writing for
The American Conservative magazine, where he had been a contributor since its inception, because they didn’t like an article he wrote not for them, but for another publication.
Giraldi, born in New Jersey and educated at the University of Chicago and the University of London, served in U.S. Army intelligence during the Vietnam War and was a CIA operations officer, i.e., agent, for 17 years. Since his time with “the Agency,” Giraldi has been writing for several websites and magazines about national security issues and most particularly about the war on terror.