New anti-boycott bill would be more extensive than previous legislation
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Source: Another Day In The Empire
Trump Threatens to Kill Iran's Spiritual Leader
The USG is the number one terror organization in the world.
January 18, 2020
Trump murdered Qassem Soleimani for "saying bad things" about the USG, according to The Hill. The president, gathered Friday at Mar-a-Lago with donors and supporters, also threatened Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader.
The so-called "Supreme Leader" of Iran, who has not been so Supreme lately, had some nasty things to say about the United States and Europe. Their economy is crashing, and their people are suffering. He should be very careful with his words!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020
In other words, if the leader of Iran criticizes the USG for wrecking Iran’s economy and forcing hardship on the people through sanctions, he might find himself targeted by a Hellfire missile.
For Trump, however, criticizing the USG for its endless war crimes comes in second to personally insulting the stable genius. On the day Trump made this threat, Khamenei characterized Trump as a clown, and this prompted the president to basically say he will kill the leader of a foreign nation for saying bad things about him.
Iran's supreme leader said President Trump is a "clown" who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will "push a poisonous dagger" into their backs https://t.co/Yf8B1yKiVj— POLITICO (@politico) January 17, 2020
This one got under #Trump's skin - 'vicious clowns' - "[Soleimani was] the anti-terrorist Commander of the whole region,” #Khamenei said. #Iran pic.twitter.com/YaETfBX3nM— tim anderson (@timand2037) January 18, 2020
It should be noted Khamenei is not stranger to assassination attempts. In 1981, Mujahedin-e Khalq tried to kill him with an exploding tape recorder, which seriously injured Khamenei, who was Iranian president at the time. His right arm was paralyzed by the attack.
MEK was delisted as a terrorist organization by Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State. The murderous organization, guilty of killing American citizens, is lauded on both sides of the artificial political divide. For instance, the former Marxist terror cult has shared friendly relationships with the likes of Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton, Ed Rendell, R. James Woolsey, Porter Goss, Louis Freeh, Michael Mukasey, James L. Jones, Tom Ridge, and Howard Dean. Most receive piles of money for their support.
Imagine the result if Trump was injured by an exploding tape recorder and the culprit was Iran. The exceptional nation, with its neocons running foreign policy, would waste no time bombing the hell out of Iran, killing thousands, and this would be cheered on by the American people, so easily hoodwinked and ready to believe lies.
This is precisely why Iran has yet to seriously confront the USG despite its four decades of economic warfare and absurd propaganda pegging it as the world's top international terrorist nation. However, if we step outside of Bizarro World for a moment and confront reality, we will discover that the USG is the number one terror organization in the world.
Iran has to go because it is a symbol of resistance to bankster neoliberalism. Donald Trump is the current Mafia don for the financial elite. He is threatening to kill the top leader of Iran—its spiritual as well as political leader—and if he manages to do that, there will be serious blowback, not only against the USG military bases scattered around the Middle East, but quite possibly in the American heartland as well, including the targeting of neocons and others pushing for a war that would benefit Israel and further deplete America's treasure (or rather, require more debt piled on future generations) and spill an incalculable amount of blood.
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Ed.'s note: David Wurmser in 2008 was a board member of the Jewish oligarch Sheldon Adelson's Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET). EMET promotes views in the media of the Arab–Israeli conflict in the Middle East. Wurmser has been credited as being one of the main authors of the 1996 report A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a paper prepared for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This advocated pre-emptive strikes against Iran and Syria, the removal of Saddam Hussein from Iraq and the abandonment of traditional "land for peace" negotiations with Palestinians. In other words, all out war using America to destroy just about every country in the Middle East except Israel. As we have recently learned, "securing the realm" has worked out really well for Afghanistan. And as far as the drug trade is concerned, it was never meant to be threatened.
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Wurmser also helped to found Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). MEMRI's trajectory and direction have been largely dominated by hawkish "pro-Israel" politics, and its work has been repeatedly criticized for being biased and at times purposely misleading. This is because there are Israelis and probably former IDF working at MEMRI. MEMRI's other co-founder includes Yigal Carmon, former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence service. Wurmser is also involved as a "research associate" at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a predominantly Neocon think tank that generates "research" favorable to Israel and Jewish interests.
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KEY ARCHITECT OF 2003 IRAQ WAR IS NOW A KEY ARCHITECT OF TRUMP IRAN POLICY
Source: RT News
Welcome, swamp monsters! How Bush-era warmonger David Wurmser is helping Trump take down Iran
20 January 2020 | By Robert Bridge
Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of the book, 'Midnight in the American Empire,' released in 2013.
A supporter of US President Donald Trump with a "Drain the Swamp" sign, Montana, US, July 5, 2018. © Reuters / Joshua Roberts
Despite Trump's pledge to 'drain the swamp' and reduce the US military's global footprint, a chief architect of the 2003 Iraq War has the ear of the White House on Iran. What could possibly go wrong? As Donald Trump's first term dwindles, it appears his new campaign slogan will be "if you can’t beat the swamp, join it." That much seems evident not only from the Trump administration's courting of diehard hawks – gung-ho guys like Elliott Abrams and Mike Pompeo – but by the recent news that David Wurmser was offering counsel to John Bolton, former National Security Advisor to the White House.
It should be briefly recalled that Wurmser – who has worked for a number of think tanks, including the influential American Enterprise Institute – contributed heavily to the report that argued Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction. That claim was eventually proven to be false, but not before a whole lot of damage was done. The outcome of the disastrous 2003 Iraq War that followed in the wake of that ‘bad intelligence’ is well documented by now, with the Iraqi people still suffering the consequences.
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Wurmser gets another chance
According to journalist Eli Lake, Wurmser built the case for "regime disruption" against Iran in a series of memos sent to Bolton in May and June 2019, a period when tensions between Tehran and Washington were peaking in the Persian Gulf. Lake, who says he was privy to the memos thanks to a high-level source, provides a glimpse into Wurmser's hawkish thought processes, revealing he told Bolton that offensive military action against Iran would "rattle the delicate internal balance of forces… which the regime depends for stability and survival."
KEY ARCHITECT OF 2003 IRAQ WAR IS NOW A KEY ARCHITECT OF TRUMP IRAN POLICY..#DavidWurmser..#Empire..#endlesswar https://t.co/Othh1O9TV6— Vas (@crypticvalentin) January 17, 2020
On another occasion, after Iran had downed a US drone, Wurmser suggested in a memo (dated June 22) a retaliatory attack "on someone like Soleimani or his top deputies." Judging by Bolton's well-known aggressive stance on Iran, however, he probably did not require much convincing from Wurmser to go after Tehran with both guns blazing.
The revelation that Wurmser was feeding Bolton advice sheds a much-needed light – albeit an opaque one – on Trump's inexplicable decision in early January to "take out" General Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds Force. That high-risk move, carried out on the territory of Iraq, prompted Tehran to respond days later with calibrated strikes on two US military bases inside of Iraq. Today, the situation remains volatile as rhetoric between the two sides has replaced – at least for the time being – outright violence.
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Now the question: what could have compelled Trump to place any trust in Wurmser, whose resume reads like that of a bull in a china shop? One possibility is that Trump had no idea Wurmser was feeding Bolton and other members of his administration what amounted to yet more regime change shenanigans in the Middle East. This seems plausible considering the contradictory messages the White House was sending immediately following Soleimani's cold-blooded murder.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, for example, claimed the US had specific information on "imminent" Iranian attacks "against American facilities, including American embassies [and] military bases." Trump, meanwhile, didn't sound any more confident with regards to the "imminent threat" of an Iranian attack when he told Fox News, "probably it was going to be the embassy in Baghdad."
Stranger yet, Defense Secretary Mark Esper, perhaps being more forthcoming than is usual for a military man with secrets to protect, admitted "I didn't see [evidence], with regard to four embassies" being targeted for attack by Iran. Esper eventually came around to saying that he "shared the president's view" of an imminent attack from Iran.
Please go to RT News to read the entire article.
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