A recap of events spiraling out of control in the Middle East on Tuesday.
Tag: Marco Rubio
Cuba Kills Florida Infiltrators as Regime Change Ramps Up
The Cuban Interior Ministry detained seven others involved in the plot, including one who “had allegedly been sent from the United States to facilitate the landing and reception of the armed group.”
Marco Rubio’s Cecil Rhodes Moment
The U.S. secretary of state is reviving the language and intent of 19th century colonialism to deter what he sees as “the forces of civilizational erasure that today menace both America and Europe alike,” writes Joe Lauria.
Why Bangladesh Rejected Islamist Rule
The first free election in Bangladesh in years saw the Islamists, courted by the U.S., losing to the secular Bangladesh National Party, reports Betwa Sharma.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Serial Buffoon at the Pentagon
Trump elevated outsiders without necessary experience to his cabinet to avoid the deep state subversion that was rampant during his first term. The “blob” responded by making some of them irrelevant.
Jeffrey Sachs: On Iran’s Comprehensive Peace Proposal
The Middle East stands at a crossroads between endless war and comprehensive peace. A framework for peace does exist. Will the U.S. finally seize it?
START Is Finished
As the arms treaty ends today, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists advanced its Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest it’s ever been to global thermonuclear annihilation.
Hedges Report: Narco-Trafficking Elite Set to Run Venezuela
Marco Rubio’s [peripheral] personal ties to drug trafficking underscore a deep irony in the Trump administration’s attempts to use the drug war as a means of achieving their imperialist goals in Latin America.
Did Venezuela VP Hand Over Maduro in Deal With the US?
Reports in the Miami Herald and The Daily Telegraph in London suggest Vice President Delcy Rodríguez betrayed President Nicolas Maduro to rule Venezuela in an arrangement with the U.S., writes Joe Lauria.
Trump & Rubio: Cuba, Mexico, Colombia Could Be Next
Jake Johnson reports on the Progressive International declaration: “The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today.”