A Chicago alderwoman in a leadership position repeated the phrase “From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free,” on social media Thursday morning. Chicago Ald. Rossana Rodriguez-Sanchez, chairwoman of the city council’s Committee on Health and Human Relations, made the comments on X, formerly known as Twitter. The phrase “From the river to […]
Chicago City Council health and human relations chair uses ‘from the river to the sea’ pro-Palestinian phrase
Menendez steps down as chair of Foreign Relations Committee
Bob Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for using his position to benefit the Egyptian government, according to the indictment. | Francis Chung/POLITICO Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is stepping down from his influential role as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee following a federal indictment on Friday alleging years
âThe Time Has Come To Talk About Our Relationsâ: Trump Sits Down With Putin In Finland
President Donald Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday in Helsinki, Finland, as tensions between the U.S. and Russia rise. The important meeting between the two world leaders comes amid new indictments of Russian officials in special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigation and worsening ties between Washington and Moscow. The initial meeting was cordial but tense. […]
Trump hopes to normalize relations with North Korea.
President Trump said Thursday he hopes to normalize relations between the United States and North Korea, but noted such a development would happen at the end of the ongoing push to denuclearize the isolated nation. âNormalizing relations is something that I would expect to do, I would hope to do, when everythingâs complete,â Trump said during a […]
Restored: 5 Ways Trump, Netanyahu Improved U.S.-Israel Relations
President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Wednesday â the fourth visit by a foreign leader, less than four weeks into the new administration. At their joint press conference, it was clear that U.S-Israel relations are once again on solid ground, after eight years of hostility from the […]
They Go Low â Report: Obama Intel Officials Used âRussia Blackmailâ Claims to Undermine Trump Relations with Israel
TEL AVIV â U.S. intelligence officials warned their Israeli counterparts not to trust President-elect Donald Trump with intelligence secrets, citing alleged fears that Russia held blackmail information over Trump, according to a report today in Israelâs respected Yediot Ahronot daily newspaper. The alleged blackmail information that U.S. officials reportedly warned Israel about seems to be […]
Obama Says Race Relations Aren’t Getting Worse. Here Are 5 Ways We Know That Isn’t True.
President Barack Obama condemned the horrific video in which four young black men and women tortured a disabled white man, but proceeded to make an absurd claimârace relations have improved. “I don’t think it’s accurate to say race relations are getting worse,” Obama told CBS. Later on in the interview, Obama added, “I think the overall […]
Why Race Relations Have Gotten So Much Worse
Speaking in the wake of the Dallas horrors, President Obama correctly assured us that race relations are not as bad in this country today as they were during the Watts riots of the sixties. But that was over fifty years ago and is only part of the story.  Throughout the eighties and nineties and into the 21st Century those relations had improved to the […]
Top Senate Foreign Relations Committee Democrat Opposes Obama’s Iran Deal
The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Maryland’s Ben Cardin, will vote against President Obama’s unpopular and reckless nuclear deal with Iran’s anti-American regime. Cardin lays out his reasoning in a Washington Post op/ed: The JCPOA legitimizes Iranâs nuclear program. After 10 to 15 years, it would leave Iran with the option to […]
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: NORMALIZING RELATIONS AS PART OF SMOKESCREEN
The Obama administration will announce tomorrow that it is normalizing relations with the government of General Raul Castro in Cuba. The operations of the American Embassy in Cuba are expected to acquiesce to a number of Cuban restrictions outside the boundaries of normal diplomatic relations. In order to be able to announce this symbolic success, […]