US Likely To Establish Permanent Military Presence In Libya
The US officials say that the administration is happy with their increased involvement in Somalia, and is looking to replicate that sudden escalation in Libya.
The US officials say that the administration is happy with their increased involvement in Somalia, and is looking to replicate that sudden escalation in Libya.
“Whatever the administration is hiding, its justifications for doing so are imaginary and appear to be invented for the sake of convenience. That’s not how complying with a congressional subpoena works, and it’s well past time the department stops stonewalling.”
By The Hill
Lawmakers on the House Select Committee on Benghazi are protesting the State Department’s “stonewalling” as they seek to finalize a long-awaited report about the 2012 terrorist attacks. Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Monday accused the Obama
An absence of journalistic due diligence, or maybe just outright disregard for it, stands at least partly to blame for the decline of the once-venerable “60 Minutes.”
1968 was one of the 20th century’s most pivotal years. In January, the United States was knocked on its heels by the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a massive attack by the Hanoi-directed Viet Cong guerilla army.
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The force, based in Spain, wants to bulk up its numbers to better respond to emergency situations on an increasingly volatile continent.
The U.S. has asked Spain if it can expand an already 500-strong Marine rapid-reaction force for Africa by a minimum of 50 percent, along with extending its presence at the current base by another year, according to a report by a Spanish newspaper on
As speculation grows on the possibility of Clinton taking another shot at the Oval Offices, commentators point to challenges she would face.
A year ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, the nation’s imagination is not focused on whether the Democrats will continue to hold the Senate or if the House Republicans have gambled away their “bulletproof” control of the House. The nation is focused on a 65-year-old retiree from Westchester County, N.Y. and what her future plans may
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Replacing Rice as ambassador to the UN will be Samantha Power, an anti-genocide activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
On Wednesday, President Obama introduced former Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice as the replacement to Tom Donilon as National Security Advisor. In doing so, the president may have rubbed salt into congressional Republicans’ Benghazi wounds and also may have slammed shut any remote chance of a bipartisan truce.
Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese
Thirty-nine percent of polled Republicans convinced that the Benghazi issue is the worst scandal in American history don’t know where Benghazi is.
By John Nordin
Forty-one percent of Republicans, according to a recent poll, think the “cover-up” of Benghazi is the “biggest political scandal in American history. Forty-three percent disagree; 74 percent think it was worse than