Obama Restricting Gun Speech
This past week, the National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a red alert to members concerning President Barack Obama’s end-run plan around Congress to criminalize firearms-related Free Speech that should alarm every American not just gun owners.
According to the NRA, President Obama is quietly taking “Executive Action” – through the State Department – to censor online speech related to firearms.
The regulatory assault is hidden deep inside the “”Unified Agenda” of regulatory objectives” – an Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) list of 19 gun regulations President Obama has in the pipeline and wants etched in stone before he leaves office.
Flashpoints in U.S.-Turkey Relations in 2021 Getty/AFP/Bakr Alkasem
Turkish soldiers patrol the northern Syrian Kurdish town of Tel Abyad, on the border between Syria and Turkey, on October 23, 2019.
Sam Hananel
Introduction and summary
Relations between Turkey and its Western allies in the United States and Europe have been on a steady downward trajectory for some eight years. While Presidents Donald Trump and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan established a measure of rapport, their highly personalized dealings only papered over the structural differences undermining the relationship. With President Joe Biden unlikely to continue Trump’s laissez-faire approach, several of these simmering disagreements could bubble over in 2021 and lead to a deeper rupture in relations. Beyond the change of tone and approach from a new U.S. administration, several key strategic and energy decisions could determine Turkey’s direction for years to come.
On Wednesday, January 13, 2021, the President signed into law: H.R. 221, the “Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act,” which elevates the Sp
MICHAEL R. POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE
The State Department has designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism for repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists.
The Trump Administration has been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home, and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere.
With this action, we will once again hold Cuba’s government accountable and send a clear message: the Castro regime must end its support for international terrorism and subversion of U.S. justice.
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US re-designates Cuba as state sponsor of terrorism
The Trump administration has re-designated Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism , reversing an Obama-era decision days ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that the US government had been focused from the start on denying the Castro regime the resources it uses to oppress its people at home and countering its malign interference in Venezuela and the rest of the Western Hemisphere . The State Department has designated Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism for repeatedly providing support for acts of international terrorism in granting safe harbor to terrorists, Pompeo said.