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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) denounced as “Totally vague” a statement that he thought was the rationale used by the Trump administration to justify force in Iran when it was actually the statement used by the Obama administration to justify force in Libya. Host Bill Maher said, “So, this statement from the administration, ‘The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force…because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.’ That’s too vague for you?” Schiff answered, “Totally vague.” Maher then said, “Okay, because…
Norwegian police said an explosive device had been thrown at the diplomatic compound Sunday morning Norwegian police are investigating an explosion outside the US Embassy in Oslo as a possible act of terrorism. The incident occurred amid heightened security for American diplomatic missions following the US-Israel air war with Iran.The blast happened at around 1 a.m. on Sunday and caused minor damage to the entrance of the diplomatic compound. An explosive device appears to have been thrown at the building, Grete Metlid, head of operational services at Oslo police, said during a press conference. Photographs from the scene show broken…
(AFP) — Iran struck Gulf infrastructure on Sunday, hitting fuel tanks at Kuwait’s international airport and damaging a desalination plant in Bahrain as Tehran pressed its missile and drone campaign against its neighbours into a second week. Two border guards were also killed “while performing their national duty”, Kuwait’s interior ministry said without elaborating on the circumstances. Neighbouring countries have borne much of Tehran’s response after the US and Israel launched a massive air campaign against Iran, with 16 people, eight of them civilians, killed in the Gulf states since the war began, according to an AFP tally. Iran President…
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that he has cautious optimism about Operation Epic Fury and “I just don’t get what liberals don’t get about liberation.” He also stated that Iran “was a fascist theocracy, and nothing in the Middle East was ever going to get better while they were still there f*cking everything up.” Maher said, “I just want to reiterate what I said in the monologue, I’m cautiously optimistic, unless he puts boots on the ground, then he’s going to lose me. We’ll see, for now. I just don’t get what liberals don’t…
Lindsey Graham has described the ongoing conflict in the Middle East as “a good investment” The US will control almost a third of the world’s oil and reap record profits if it succeeds in toppling the Iranian government, hawkish Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told Fox News on Sunday.Graham made his comments as global oil prices surged past $100 per barrel, a rise that President Donald Trump dismissed as “a very small price to pay” for the US‑Israeli war against Iran, which was launched on February 28.Graham described the cost of the attacks on Iran as the “best money ever spent,”…
President Donald Trump is weighing options that could include deploying special operations forces into Iran to secure or destroy highly enriched uranium stockpiles as part of his pledge that Tehran “will not have a nuclear bomb,” according to multiple reports Saturday. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump suggested the possibility of a ground operation had not been ruled out, saying U.S. forces could move in at a later stage of the conflict if necessary. “Right now we’re just decimating them, but we haven’t gone after it,” Trump said, referring to Iran’s nuclear material. “But something we could do…
During his opening monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that if President Donald Trump “puts boots on the ground, yeah, then I’ll hate it. Now, I know too many happy Iranian Americans. Sorry. And you cannot name one horrible thing that has happened in the Middle East in the last 50 years and not connect it to this fascist theocracy.” While recounting what’s happened recently, Maher said, “Also, this week, war. Did you hear about that thing? We bombed Iran, and it’s going on. Now, if you expected me to say I hate it.…
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is using her country’s non-intervention policy as a cover for the fact that Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia were not invited to President Donald Trump’s Shield of the Americas summit. This week, Sheinbaum claimed that her country believed in not interfering with other countries’ internal politics and in the peaceful resolution of conflicts. When asked this week if she would be attending the Shield of the Americas summit, Sheinbaum simply replied, “No.” As Breitbart Texas reported, the summit took place this week in Miami and included 12 presidents from Latin American countries who were in favor of…
Former President Joe Biden (D) compared his intellect with the intellects of mourners at Reverend Jesse Jackson’s memorial service on Friday in Chicago at the House of Hope arena. In attendance were former presidents Barack Obama (D), Bill Clinton (D), Clinton’s wife, Hillary, former Vice President Kamala Harris (D), and Reverend Al Sharpton, Fox News reported. Biden had been telling the mourners how as a child he stuttered and was mocked for it, noting that oftentimes people make fun of such things because they think it makes the person appear unintelligent. He continued his remarks by stating, “If I told…
They reportedly have had bad experiences acting as Washington’s proxy in past conflicts Iraq’s Kurds are against joining the US attacks on Iran, and have voiced concerns about being left facing Iranian retaliation with no ground or air defense support, Axios reported on Saturday.The CIA began working to arm Kurdish forces hostile to the Islamic Republic after the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran last Saturday, according to CNN. While US President Donald Trump initially voiced support for Kurds getting involved in the conflict, he backpedaled on the idea on Saturday.“The Kurds must not be the tip of the…