First, there are rumors that Attorney General Jeff Sessions may resign. Then, Trump hired Anthony Scaramucci as the White House Communications Director, which led to Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s resignation.
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Ivory coast arrests eight for pangolin smuggling
The authorities in Ivory Coast say they’ve seized a record haul of three tonnes of pangolin scales.
They say the haul represents about 4,000 of the endangered nocturnal mammals, captured in several West African countries.
Pakistan Supreme Court Disqualifies Sharif; He Steps Down
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, center, with his son Hussain Nawaz, right, in Islamabad, Pakistan, June 15, 2017. Sharif appeared before a Supreme Court-appointed team investigating allegations against his family’s offshore companies and money laundering.
Modernizing America’s Nuclear Capabilities Is a Must by Peter Huessy
In 1989, America had 1,000 nuclear missile silos, and a small number of additional bomber and submarine bases and submarines at sea, facing 13,500 Soviet warheads. Today, the U.S. has 450 such silos facing 1,750 Russian warheads. That is a switch from a ratio of 13 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo, to a ratio of 4 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo. Getting rid of Minuteman ICBMs would reverse that progress and make the ratio even worse, with 175 Russian warheads to every U.S. missile silo. How is that an improvement?
Palestinians: Metal Detectors or Lie Detectors – Who Is Violating What? by Bassam Tawil
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Crucially, and contrary to Palestinian claims, there has been no Israeli decision to ban Muslims from entering the Temple Mount. For the first time since 1967, the Palestinians are denying Muslim worshippers free access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
