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Trump Is Planning To Reverse Obama’s Policies On Cuba

During last year’s campaign, Trump repeatedly threatened to terminate all of Obama’s deals on Cuba.

Jason Ditz
By Jason Ditz
Javier Yanez stands on his balcony where he hung a U.S. and Cuban flag in Old Havana Cuba, Friday, Dec. 19, 2014

New reports out of the Daily Caller suggest that President Trump is planning to soon make an announcement that he is reversing all of President Obama’s moves to reopen US-Cuba relations, which saw a reestablishment of diplomatic ties, a slight loosening of business restrictions, and even talked about permission to allow Americans to visit the

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S. Korea’s President Orders Probe Over Increasingly Unpopular US Missile Launchers

Many of South Korean President’s supporters don’t want the missile system, which Donald Trump suggested Seoul should pay for.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
South Korean protesters stage a rally to oppose the plan to deploy the advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, April 29, 2017 (AP/Ahn Young-joon)

Calling it a "very shocking" incident, South Korea's new president on Tuesday demanded an investigation into why his office wasn't told by defense officials about the arrival of several additional launchers for a contentious U.S. missile defense system meant to cope with North Korea's nuclear threat. Before taking office on May 10, Moon Jae-in

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The Manchester Bomber Is The Spawn Of Hillary And Barack’s Excellent Libyan Adventure

Manchester is the latest iteration of a scenario we’ve gone through so many times now, like some groundhog-day dream.

Jim Kavanagh
By Jim Kavanagh
An armed Libyan rebel shoots an AK-47 at a poster of Muhammar Gaddafi in the captured rebel town of Ras-Lanuf in the east of the country (Photo: Andrey Stenin/Sputnik)

On November 20, 2015, two jihadi militants attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, Mali, seizing about 100 hostages and “leaving bodies strewed across the building.” When it was over, 22 people (including the attackers) had been killed. As the New York Times reported: Mali has been crippled by instability since January, 2012, when rebels and Al

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Trump Sides With Sunni Extremists In Middle East Sectarian War

President Trump campaigned on getting the United States out of the Middle East and away from ‘stupid wars’. But his actions and rhetoric so far as president indicate he is not ready to deviate from long-held U.S. policy.

Dan Wright
By Dan Wright
Donald Trump holds a sword and sways with traditional dancers during a welcome ceremony at Murabba Palace, in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)

Published in partnership with Shadowproof. In a speech that contradicted numerous public statements, President Donald Trump praised the rulers of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf state autocracies for fighting Islamic terrorism in his first foreign trip as president. Despite irrefutable evidence (that Despite irrefutable evidence (that he himself

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NATO Joins Anti-ISIS Campaign, But It’s Russia In The Crosshairs

NATO has officially joined other countries in the anti-Daesh (ISIS) coalition, vowing to fight the terror group with resolve. But there is some concern that its addition could lead to a confrontation with Russia in Syria, as the organization has historically shown great hostility toward Moscow.

Whitney Webb
By Whitney Webb
Donald Trump, right, speaks to British Prime Minister Theresa May during a meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, May 25, 2017. (AP/Matt Dunham)

Last Wednesday, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced that it would formally join the fight against Daesh (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq, a move that diplomats have labeled as symbolic. Indeed, the move is somewhat redundant, as all 28 NATO allies are already members of the anti-Daesh coalition. According to NATO Secretary-General Jen

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Palestinian Inmates In Israeli Jails End Hunger Strike

The strike was called to protest against solitary confinement and detention without trial.

Middle East Monitor
By Middle East Monitor
Palestinian boys raise up their hands with chains, during a protest to show their solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, who have been on an open-ended hunger strike for the past 18 days, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, May 4, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla)

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners ended a 40-day hunger strike today initially launched over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on 17 April. It raised tensions between Israel and the Palestinians,

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