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Game on: Bolton Vows to ‘Squeeze’ Iran ‘Until the Pips Squeak’

November 13, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOasean, Donald Trump, Global trade, Hassan Rouhani, Hezbollah, International Monetary Fund, Iran-U.S. relations, Israel / Middle East, John Bolton, National Security, Politics0 comment

The U.S. will “squeeze” Iran “until the pips squeak” through the tough new round of trade sanctions now in force, National Security Advisor John Bolton promised Tuesday. President Donald Trump has slowly ratcheted up pressure on Tehran by dropping a host of favourable trade deals authorised by Barack Obama, withdrawing from an international agreement aimed at ending its nuclear program and re-introducing unilateral U.S. sanctions. At the same time Iran has sought to evade the sanctions, principally in alliance with the European Union, much to the disgust of the Trump administration.…

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IDF Preps Largescale Offensive as Hamas Fires Over 300 Terror Rockets

November 13, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOGaza Strip, Hamas, IDF, Israel / Middle East, National Security, terror rockets0 comment

The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli military deployed additional troops and tanks to the Gaza Strip border on Monday following the largest barrage of rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel from the coastal enclave in a single day. The army was reportedly given a green light from policymakers to pummel terror groups in the Strip if they continued with the barrages, as the terror organizations in the Strip vowed to do. We struck Hamas’ military intelligence HQ in response to the 300+ rockets that terrorists in #Gaza fired…

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Virgil: France’s Macron Attacks America’s Trump, and Americans Help Pay For It

November 12, 2018 MICHAELANTONIODonald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, globalism, National Security, Nationalism, Paris Peace Forum, United Nations, Virgil0 comment

Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, is playing host to world leaders—and attacking one of them. Guess who? As The Washington Post reported on Sunday, “In the shadow of a grand war memorial here, French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by delivering a forceful rebuke against rising nationalism, calling it a ‘betrayal of patriotism’ and warning against ‘old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death.’” For much of Sunday, that article was the “Most Read” story on the Post’s website—of course it…

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VA Secretary Robert Wilkie: Veterans Day for All Who Served at Lonely Outposts

November 12, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOArlington National Cemetery, Bob Wilkie, Jim Mattis, Kirstjen Nielsen, National Security, Politics, Veterans Day, World War I0 comment

Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert Wilkie commemorated Veterans Day in a moving speech Sunday morning at Arlington National Cemetery. “This day reminds all Americans that they sleep soundly at night because of the sacrifices of millions of ordinary men and women,” Wilkie said. “It is for all who have served at all the lonely outposts, and the military at home and in distant lands, who left families and loved ones and who overcame challenges that many of us would find unimaginable,” he said. He noted the 100th anniversary of World…

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Pinkerton: Learning the Right Lesson of World War I on Its 100th Anniversary

November 11, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOJames Pinkerton, National Security, Politics, World War I, World War II0 comment

Today is not only Veterans Day, it is also the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, when the armistice went into effect exactly a century ago, on November 11, 1918. After more than four years of bloody fighting, the Great War was finally over. The standard view of World War I is that it is a testament to the futility of war. Yet maybe the better way to think of the war, which lasted from 1914 to 1918—including American participation in 1917-1918—is that if war comes, it’s better to…

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Exclusive–Patrick K. O’Donnell: Veterans Day and America’s Unknown Soldier

November 11, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOArlington National Cemetery, Body Bearers, Delaney, Dell, General John Pershing, Gold Star Mothers, Janson, Medal of Honor, National Security, O’Connor, Politics, President Harding, Razga, Saunders, Taylor, The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and WWI's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, USS Olympia, Warren Harding, Woodfill, World War I0 comment

This week, small towns and big cities all across the country will hold parades and other celebrations in honor of their veterans. One of the most poignant and meaningful of these ceremonies will take place at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. Every year, thousands of Americans gather at the tomb in solemn recognition of the tremendous debt we owe to our servicemen and women. There, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the annual wreath-laying ceremony will take place on…

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Pompeo, Mattis Air Differences with Chinese Counterparts on South China Sea, Taiwan

November 11, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOChina, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Jim Mattis, Mattis, National Security, Peter Navarro, Politics, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South China Sea, Taiwan0 comment

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met with their Chinese counterparts Friday at the State Department, with both sides expressing hopes for a cooperative relationship, but also airing significant differences. In many ways, it embodied the Trump administration’s new maxim with China: Competition does not mean hostility. In a nearly 40 minute press conference after a meeting that ran a bit longer than expected, both sides discussed where they saw areas of agreement and disagreement. While there were some notes of harmony, there was a lot more…

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U.S. Army to Acquire Advanced Camouflage Defense System

November 10, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOCamouflage, Fibrotex USA, National Security, Politics, Pre-Viral, U.S. Army, ULCANS system0 comment

The U.S. Army is about to acquire an advanced camouflage defense system, designed to protect troops from a variety of threats in multiple combat environments. The Army recently selected a company that will design an Ultra-Light Camouflage Netting System (ULCANS), a system designed to protect troops and equipment from visible threats and threats that the eye cannot see by using a camouflage screen to block radars across the electromagnetic spectrum. The company selected for the $480 million contract, Fibrotex USA, will spend the next ten years developing and producing the…

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Tucker Carlson Antifa Riot Hints Cuba’s Campaign to Export Mob Attacks Is Succeeding

November 10, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOantifa, communism, Cuba, Ladies in White, Latin America, National Security, Politics, Tucker Carlson, United Nations0 comment

The mob attack on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home this week by radical Marxists – leaving his home with a broken door and vandalized with leftist slogans – has triggered widespread shock on the part of most decent Americans. For those aware of the way “Antifa” elements operate internationally, however, the incident was nothing new. Pro-democracy and right-leaning political activists, journalists, and artists 90 miles from our shores, fighting for their rights in communist Cuba, have faced similar mob attacks on their homes for years. Unlike the Carlson incident,…

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White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro Takes China, Wall Street Globalists to Task

November 10, 2018 MICHAELANTONIOCenter for Strategic and International Studies, Chinese trade practices, Economy, G-20 summit, Goldman Sachs, NAFTA, National Security, Peter Navarro, Politics, stealing technology and intellectual property, Tariffs, Wall Street globalists, Xi Jinping0 comment

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro took Wall Street globalists and China to task on Friday, blasting them for trying to work against President Trump’s efforts to end unfair Chinese trade practices for the good of the American worker. “President Trump has done an incredible job on trade. He has had the courage and wisdom to stand up to the globalist elites, to stand up to the countries of the world that are engaging in unfair trade practices, non-reciprocal trade, high tariffs, using [the] United States as the bank of the…