(WEBPUBLICA) New York – President Trump’s decision to kill a senior Iranian general “endangered Americans,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As the resolution makes its way to the Senate, two Republicans have pledged support for the bill, DW has reported quoting various news sources.
The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of a [...]
By John J. Metzler - NEW YORK — Peering into the crystal snow globe, it’s time to predict, prognosticate and presage into the year ahead. Without a pun we need the proverbial 2020 vision to decipher the political and security landscape that awaits us in the new year with both long running static conflicts and newly unpredictable crises.
Here [...]
By Borut Grgič *- First it was the U.S., already under the junior President George Bush and well before President Donald Trump, who declared NATO obsolete. Then a few weeks ago, the French president proclaimed it brain dead. Only for the two to meet last week in London for some more muscle flexing. But there is a real cost [...]
WEBPUBLICAPRESS (London/New York) – The US president called Macron’s “brain dead” NATO remarks “nasty,” saying he could see Paris leaving the alliance. The remarks set the tone for what is expected to be another tense summit among NATO allies, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported from British capital.
US President Donald Trump kicked off a tense two-day NATO summit on [...]
By Austin Davis and Anila Shuka (DW) – The appointment of the controversial US ambassador to Germany signals renewed American interest in solving the conflict. But it also has potential to further sour relations between Berlin and Washington.
President Donald Trump selected the US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, as his administration’s special envoy between Serbia [...]
By John J. Metzler - UNITED NATIONS — In the wake of Iranian initiated missile/drone attacks which significantly crippled the Saudi Arabian petroleum industry and threatened to bring the Persian Gulf region closer to the brink of a military confrontation, the Trump Administration and its allies have pursued a tough but decidedly restrained policy of deterrence rather than [...]
By Kane Farabaugh – DECATUR, ILL. (VOA News) – Continuous wet weather disrupted the spring planting season for Southern Illinois farmer Jim Raben, meaning he is anticipating a lean harvest this year.
“For our area and probably for our farm, probably 20, 25% prevent plant,” he told VOA at the 2019 Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois. [...]
By Barbara Wesel (DW) - Emmanuel Macron proved himself to be a master of diplomacy at this year’s G7 by outmaneuvering the US President on Iran. In doing so, he’s also taken over as Europe’s foreign policy leader, says DW’s Barbara Wesel.
The French president invested an enormous amount of preparation time and political capital so [...]
By John J. Metzler - Bondville, VT — For those of us of a certain age, we vividly remember where we were on July 20, 1969 the date of America’s successful Lunar landing.
On a cool July southern Vermont evening my parents and I visited friends to watch what was expected to be a live transmission from the [...]
By Ken Bredemeier (VOA News) – U.S. President Donald Trump has found his latest target for acerbic ridicule — a hijab-wearing Muslim newcomer to Congress named Ilhan Omar. She is a Somali refugee but naturalized U.S. citizen whom Trump views as something less than a patriotic red, white and blue American.
Trump railed against the lawmaker Wednesday [...]
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