Sputnik News- The people loyal to the administration of former US President Barack Obama waged a months-long campaign to take down the new president's National Security Adviser Michael Flynn that eventually led to his resignation, US media reported Wednesday.
On Monday, Flynn stepped downafter information abouthis conversations withRussian Ambassador ...
The murders of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota have sparked public outrage on social media and in the streets of the United States. Awareness of the ever-increasing numbers of Black Americans lynched by the police in the US has grown following the murder of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in August of 2014.
However,...
To mark the first anniversary of President Obamas deal with Iran, the folks at the Foreign Policy Initiative have just published a comprehensive compilation of promises vs. results. Its a devastating roundup.
FPIs Tzvi Kahn notes what Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and other top officials promised at the time would happen if the deal went ...
When the 2008 capitalist crash sent shockwaves throughout the entire global economy, the US ruling class scrambled for a political remedy. The most effective remedy thus far has been the ruleof Barack Obama. Obama'spresidency has been defined byhis service to Wall Street and his ability to convince broad sections of the population that the capitalist ...
U.S. government hypocrisy is, as most everyone knows, boundless. Its also utterly transparent. Our public officials evidently see no shame in belying their professions of benign intent with awesome malevolence and destruction. After all, theres always the doctrine of American Exceptionalism to justify the unjustifiable.
Take for instance Barack ...
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerrysaythat allowing family members of 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia for its complicity in that crime would set a terrible precedent that would open the United States up to lawsuits from abroad.
Wonderful! Let the lawsuits rain down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream!
Suing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is leaving the door open to new sanctions relief for Iran, including possibly long-forbidden access to the U.S. financial market, prompting increased concern from Republican opponents of last year's nuclear deal.
Rep. Ed Royce, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, expressed alarm in a letter this ...
As the 44th American president's second term in office nears to its end, a number of political experts offer their analysis of Obama's general style of foreign policy and his alleged Middle East failure in particular, along with what opportunities it created for President Putin to strengthen his influence in the region.
It is the Obama doctrine,...
Washington (CNN)The Obama administration is preparing to publicly attribute a 2013 cyber attack against a New York dam to Iranian hackers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the investigation.
The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against people thought to be behind the attack, according to the officials. An announcement could ...
Irans powerful Revolutionary Guard military force hacked email and social-media accounts of Obama administration officials in recent weeks in attacks believed to be tied to the arrest in Tehran of an Iranian-American businessman, U.S. officials said.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, has routinely conducted cyberwarfare against American ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration is confronted with two crises for which it has few, if any, viable options - the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Syrian civil war. The administration has ultimate goals for each crisis but no clear path to achieve them, and Secretary of State John Kerry is jetting off to Europe and the Middle East to ...
The Obama administration has privately reminded foreign governments and U.S. bankers that sanctions against Iran remain in effect, cautioning against a rush by Western companies to invest in Iran's oil industry and other businesses until the country fully complies with the July nuclear agreement.
The U.S. State Department recently cabled a message,...
U.S. Senator Ted Cruz said Congress should use the threat of a government shutdown to force the White House to disclose "secret side deals" in the Iranian nuclear agreement.
The Republican 2016 presidential candidate said on September 22 that the GOP-led Congress should fund the government after the end of the fiscal year on September 30 only if ...
WASHINGTON President Obama, in advance of his victory in Congress on Thursday on the Iran nuclear deal, focused on centrifuge numbers, uranium stockpiles and the breakout time to build a bomb. But now, as the agreement is carried out, he will face a new battle over how stringently to impose economic sanctions on Iran.
To reward Iran for imposing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress returns on Tuesday with a critical need for a characteristic rarely evident through a contentious spring and summer - cooperation between Republicans and President Barack Obama.
Lawmakers face a weighty list of unfinished business and looming deadlines, including a stopgap spending bill to keep the government open beyond ...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio vowed Friday to roll back the Obama administration's new Cuba policy on his first day in office, casting the plan to normalize relations with the island nation as a dangerous shift that gives the Castro regime international legitimacy and more resources to repress its people.
In a blistering ...
Obama administration officials told lawmakers on Wednesday that sanctions relief under the Iran nuclear deal will not be allowed to be used to bankroll terrorism and said the sanctions can be "snapped back" quickly if Tehran violates the agreement.
The White House is conducting a lobbying blitz to convince Congress to back the agreement announced ...
Republican presidential candidate Senator Marco Rubio on Thursday warned that President Barack Obama's successor could scrap the Iran nuclear deal even if it is approved by Congress.
Rubio was among the unsparing critics of the July 14 agreement at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing where Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary ...
Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:
Iran-EU trade confab opens in Vienna
Top officials and traders from Iran, Austria, France, the UK, Germany and other countries gather today at the two-day Iran-EU Conference on Trade and Investment held in the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna, to discuss post-sanctions ...
The Obama administration began its nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that Tehran halt production of all nuclear fuel, dismantle its nuclear infrastructure and roll back its missile program. In two years of bargaining, each of those demands has been dropped.
As the administration and its five major-power negotiating partners close in on ...