DUSTIN FRANZ/AFP via Getty Images The train that derailed near the Ohio-Pennsylvania line this month — which was carrying toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride — had broken down before on its route as workers expressed concerns about the load size, according to reports. The train derailed in East Palestine on February 3 but reportedly broke down “at least once”
Cincinnati Shuts Off Water from Ohio River due to East Palestine Contamination
March 4, 2023 by
Cincinnati Shuts Off Water from Ohio River due to East Palestine Contamination AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar The City of Cincinnati shut off its local sourcing of water from the Ohio River following the train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio. The local government announced its decision Friday: Out of an abundance of caution
Ohio House passes $12.6 billion state transportation budget in response to East Palestine train derailment
March 2, 2023 by
Proposed safety measures in response to the East Palestine train derailment are part of a $12.6 billion state transportation budget passed Wednesday by the Ohio House with bipartisan support. The budget proposal would fund pavement, bridges and other highway projects over two years and includes $1 billion targeted for improvements to rural highways. It would […]
Ohio Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown Excuses Joe Biden’s Absence in East Palestine
March 1, 2023 by
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), up for reelection in 2src24 and likely to face a tough opponent, excused Joe Biden’s absence when asked about the president visiting East Palestine, where a train carrying chemicals derailed. During a press gaggle in Ohio, a reporter asked Brown about the consensus in East Palestine that Biden would not show
Report: U.S. Deploys B-52 Bombers to Middle East to Deter Iran
December 13, 2020 by
The U.S. military reportedly deployed two B-52H bombers to the Middle East on Thursday as part of an effort to deter Iran from potential attacks in the region, a senior U.S. military official told Voice of America (VOA). “The flight was not about any offensive action; it was about deterring Iran from acting out,” the…
Ending Our ‘Shell Game’ Foreign Policy in the Middle East
November 18, 2020 by
No U.S. strategy can be a panacea, but a strategy of restraint offers the best way forward for both the U.S. and the region. Almost two years since the president declared that U.S. forces would be leaving Syria, American troops are still in that country illegally on a mission that has nothing to do with…
EXCLUSIVE — Sen. Lieberman Praises Trump: USA in Position to Bring Stability in Middle East and Asia.
May 11, 2018 by
Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) discussed the Iran nuclear agreement on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, stating that President Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday that the United States is pulling out of the deal “took guts.” “I actually think it’s a great thing,” Lieberman told Breitbart Editor-in-chief Alex Marlow. “I think the president made the correct decision, and, […]
Pompeo becomes U.S. secretary of state as North Korea, Middle East issues await.
April 26, 2018 by
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state on Thursday, and the former CIA director set off immediately on a trip to meet key allies in Europe and the Middle East. Pompeo, a former Army officer who was a Republican congressman, is regarded as a Trump loyalist […]
Armada of US warships steaming toward Middle East.
April 13, 2018 by
The guided missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke gets under way as part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group deployment toward the Middle East. An armada of 12 warships — the largest US strike force since the 2003 Iraq war – is steaming toward the Middle East as President Trump mulls an attack on […]
My Encounter With George Soros’s Bright-Eyed Missionaries Left Me Deeply Disturbed
February 11, 2018 by
Author and sociologist Frank Furedi claims globalist activists working for billionaire financier George Soros bragged about toppling governments at a private lunch. A former professor of sociology at the University of Kent in Canterbury, Furedi recounted his experience with the globalist’s “missionaries” in an article for the Telegraph newspaper, having been prompted by the revelations […]
Report: Middle East Christians on the Eve of Destruction.
January 16, 2018 by
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories are amongst the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to a new report. Although Christians claim the area as their Biblical heartland alongside Israel, persecution and discrimination, especially in the past 15 years, means they now constitute no more than three to four per cent per cent of the […]
U.S. Will Direct Humanitarian Programs in the Middle East; No More U.N. Funding
October 29, 2017 by
Funding that vile international body (driven largely by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation) is as good as funding jihad, Jew-hatred, creed apartheid, gender apartheid and sharia worldwide. The OIC is made up of 56 Muslim countries and the terrorist Palestinian Authority. The OIC, Bat Ye’or explains, is nothing less than a “would-be, universal caliphate.” It […]
German Intelligence: Jihadi Children Returning From Middle East Pose Serious Security Risk
October 23, 2017 by
Germany’s domestic spy agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has warned that the children of jihadists who travelled to the Middle East and are now returning could pose serious security risks and become a “new generation” of Islamic radicals. Head of the BfV Hans-Georg Maaßen made the warning this week, saying: “We […]
How Can We Help The Most Refugees? By Resettling Them In The Middle East NOT The United States (Educational Video)
January 30, 2017 by
Best Option For Refugees Is To Resettle Them In The Middle East On November 5, 2015 The Gateway Pundit wrote about a report that had been released that showed that the United States could resettle 12 times more refugees in the Middle East than it could in the United States because of the costs associated. The […]
WORST PRESIDENT EVER: Obama’s Libyan Catastrophe Unleashed Hell on Middle East and Europe
January 4, 2017 by
In late August WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange joined FOX and Friends to discuss the leaked Hillary Clinton emails. When pressed as to what was the most damaging email to date, Assange noted a stream of emails related to Hillary Clinton’s involvement in Libya. Assange stated that 1,700 emails were released related to Hillary’s involvement in Libya but […]
10 Lies Secretary of State Kerry Told During His Big Middle East Peace Speech
December 31, 2016 by
On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry gave a speech on his proposed plan for peace between Israelis and Arabs. His plan: blame the Jews, pretend that Palestinian terrorism and incitement isn’t representative of the actual Palestinian government, and then blather for 69 more minutes. His speech razed facts to the ground in a fashion […]
Trump appoints the right team to regain the Middle East
December 28, 2016 by
The Trump administration is dedicated to undoing the harm done by the Obama administration in the Iran Deal. To succeed, it needs the right team. Relatively few people have heard of the Center for Security Policy. That’s about to change because it is playing a prominent, if not dominant role, in the Trump transition team […]
Policy Recommendations on the Middle East for the Trump Administration
December 14, 2016 by
The United States’ stature as a leading global power in the Middle East has eroded in recent years. The administration’s decision to play a reactive rather than a proactive role in the Middle East created a vacuum in the region that was filled by elements that worked against the interests of the United States and […]
Poll: 74% Voters Reject Obama’s Middle East Refugee Plan
September 21, 2016 by
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Tuesday that shows “voters reject Obama’s new Middle East refugee plan.” News of widespread public opposition to more refugees comes three days after Saturday’s stabbing of ten Americans in a St. Cloud, Minnesota mall by Somali refugee Dahir Adan, and the bombings in New York and New Jersey, allegedly perpetrated by Afghan […]
War and Peace in Putin’s Middle East
August 27, 2016 by
The Times of Israel reports that, on Tuesday night, “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin…and discussed regional issues and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.” It was hardly, of course, their first chat. In June, Netanyahu was in Moscow to meet with Putin. He was there, too, for that purpose in September 2015 […]
Media Ignores Ongoing Genocide of Christians in The Middle East
August 18, 2016 by
On March 17, 2016, Secretary of State John Kerry officially declared the extermination of Christians and other minority religious groups in the Middle East a genocide. The move came after years of pressure from a number of human rights groups including the The Philos Project, The American Mesopotamian Organization, Open Doors, Knights of Columbus, In Defense of […]
Hillary’s Middle East Turmoil: 161 Die During Coup in Turkey, ISIS Claims Nice Attack that Left 84 Dead
July 17, 2016 by
At least 161 people have died during an overnight coup attempt by the Turkish military against the established government. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed he is in control of the country early Saturday as loyal military and police forces defeated the uprising. Explosions, air battles, and gunfire have left more than 1,500 injured. The […]
China’s Imperialism and Militarization in the South and East China Seas Must be Stopped
March 13, 2016 by
China in violation of international law is claiming islands and reefs which belong to U.S. allies and other nations as well as vast portions of the South and East China Seas. James Robert Clapper is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who is currently the Director of National Intelligence. Previously, he […]
Obama’s Middle East Policies Dictated by Phony Iran Deal
January 12, 2016 by
The Obama administration continues to capitulate to Iran’s demands in order to ensure that an unworkable, unsigned international agreement somehow restrains that regime’s quest for nuclear weapons. The media are also working overtime to make sure that Obama’s White House isn’t embarrassed by its repeated concessions to Iran. “Hours after circulating a draft of proposed […]
China’s Imperialism in the South and East China Seas Continues
January 9, 2016 by
China in violation of international law in claiming islands and reefs which belong to U.S. allies as well as vast portions of the South and East China Seas. Reuters published an article entitled “China again lands planes on disputed island in South China Sea: Xinhua” on January 6, 2016. On January 6, 2016, China landed […]
Cuba, Russia, and East Germany Placed Nearly a Hundred Spies in the CIA
January 8, 2016 by
Bill Gertz wrote an article entitled “CIA Fooled by Massive Cold War Double-Agent Failure” which was published in the Washington Free Beacon website on December 28, 2015. He explained how the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was fooled by almost a hundred double agents pretending to be working for the agency but secretly worked for communist […]
Christianity In The Middle East: On The Verge Of Extinction
December 9, 2015 by
About 1.3 million Iraqi Christians have been displaced, murdered or taken prisoner since 2003. A centuries-old civilization now faces permanent extinction while the rest of the world, including the U.S. government, looks on. As Christians across the world begin to celebrate Christmas, the 300,000 remaining Christians displaced in Iraq and Syria are preparing for a […]
Who Will Save Middle East Christians: Obama or Putin?
October 6, 2015 by
Few Western foreign policy analysts have taken seriously Vladimir Putin’s radical reorientation of Russia from communism back to Russian Orthodox Christianity. Putin is perhaps uniquely qualified to discern that his nation’s identity has been for centuries within a spiritual, distinctly Christian narrative and that a violent rending of Russia’s historically religious roots led to utter […]
Cheney: Middle East Problems Are ‘A Direct Consequence’ Of Obama’s Policies
September 6, 2015 by
Liz Cheney blasted Barack Obama’s policy for handling Iraq saying what we see now is, “A direct consequence of walking away from the Middle East and creating chaos, creating a vacuum that ISIS, that Iran, that America’s enemies are now filling.” Cheney, a former State Department official and daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, appeared […]
Update on the Christian persecution in the Middle East
June 14, 2015 by
Ted Shoebat, author of For God or For Tyranny, gives update on the Christian persecution in the Middle East and discusses President Obama’s decision to send additional troops to Iraq to fight ISIS advance.