After the celebration of the White House signing of normalization accords among Israel, Bahrain and UAE, invoking Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton’s signing of Israeli-Palestinian peace accords in 1979 and 2000, euphoria is wearing off and a sober realization is setting in: they may not be all they’re cracked up to be. Of course, […]
Trump’s Middle East Normalization Based on Bullying, Extortion
Donald Trump runs U.S. Middle East policy much the way Don Coreleone ran his Mafia empire: through pursuit of common interests where possible and, if that failed, through bullying and extortion. News reports indicate few, if any of the Middle East states negotiating to normalize relations with Israel are doing so out of the goodness […]
Adelson Paid Spanish Security Firm to Spy on Assange, Then Handed Off to U.S. Intelligence
Among the more whackadoodle developments to come out of Julian Assange’s UK extradition trial is the Guardian report that Sheldon Adelson’s Sands Company paid a Spanish company to plant surveillance gear inside the Ecuadorean Embassy to spy on Assange while he was holed up there. I have asked the Sands if they have any statement […]
Trump Has COVID: Could This Be His Undoing?
Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020 I don’t usually write about subjects like this. There are so many others who cover elections. I prefer not to reinvent the wheel. But […]
