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The May 8 edition of the
Wall Street Journal ran a feature titled Afghan Pullout Leaves U.S. Looking for Other Places to Station Its Troops which explores options the Pentagon is entertaining to station troops and equipment for an ongoing military role in Afghanistan.
The article mentions three options: basing military personnel and hardware in Central Asian nations; concentrating them in the Middle East, particularly in the Persian Gulf (identified by the newspaper more than once as the Arab Gulf), including the U.S.’s largest base in the region at Doha, Qatar, and over a dozen other bases “in countries stretching from Kuwait to Oman”); and using aircraft carriers and their strike groups for power projection in the South Asian nation.
The Week That Will Be
Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, May 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m.: The House Administration Committee will hold a hearing titled, Oversight of the January 6th Attack: United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment and Counter-Surveillance Before and During the Attack. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Bolton, inspector general of the Capitol Police.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 9:30 a.m.: The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on the nominations of Ronald Moultrie to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security and Michael McCord to be comptroller of the Defense Department.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a hearing on ghost guns. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Harrison, commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department; Joshua Shapiro, attorney general of Pennsylvania; Nicholas Suplina, managing directo
Biden’s push for restoring aid to Palestinians faces legal hurdles and brewing political crisis
U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. Last week, his administration announced that it would allocate $90 million in aid to the Palestinians, with $75 million going to short-term projects to rebuild U.S.-Palestinian relations and $15 million for coronavirus relief.
Additionally, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on Wednesday plans to restart funding for UNRWA, the U.N. agency that deals with Palestinian refugees.
Not only are there plans to restart funding for UNRWA, but the new administration is pushing more fiscal aid and a return to the negotiating table as the Palestinians head for elections in May.
The New York Times’
Helene Cooper. Through keynote and panel conversations, our speakers will examine President Biden’s efforts to modernize the U.S. military for the conflicts of tomorrow, address its biggest foreign policy challenges including China and Russia, craft a foreign policy for the middle class, and much more.
About Our Speakers:
Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Jake Sullivan is Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Previously, Mr. Sullivan was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Mr. Sullivan also served as National Security Adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden and Director of Policy Planning at the U.S. Department of State, as well as Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He was the Senior Policy Adviser on Secretary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.
VT: An investigation at Veterans Today has cited the Department of Homeland Security, beginning with its inception after 9/11 as the mechanism used for radicalizing police as white supremacist, anti-Semitic gangs.
The DHS was created on the advice of Rudy Giuliani and was intended by Giuliani to be turned over to his former driver who he made police commissioner, Bernie Kerik. Kerik served 4 years in prison for tax fraud tied to payoffs from New York mobsters and was pardoned by Donald Trump after he lost the election.
Kerik is active in spreading election fraud and COVID 19 hoaxes.
The DHS was tasked with tying US police departments with Kosher Nostra gangs headquartered in Ukraine, Albania and Israel and arranging for thousands of US police officials to go “on the pad” with cash supplied by the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels (FBI Source) who worked in partnership with Israeli intelligence.