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Reuters: Mainsteam Republicans Love Trumps Racism…like people who live here don’t know that The national survey, conducted on Monday and Tuesday after Trump told the lawmakers they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” showed his net approval among members of his Republican Party rose by 5 percentage points to 72%, compared with a similar poll that ran […] {$excerpt:n} Reuters: Mainsteam Republicans Love Trumps Racism…like people who live here don’t know that Source: VTT

Spying for Israel is consequence free Jim W. Dean - The Arnon Milchan story has been around for years, and VT has carried it, but Phil's presentation here is the most complete I have seen. {$excerpt:n} Spying for Israel is consequence free Source: VTT

Belgium: Storage of US Nukes Stirs Political Frenzy Belgian opposition politicians on Tuesday demanded answers from the government after a document published online inadvertently drew attention to US nuclear weapons deployed in the country. A draft report for the NATO parliamentary assembly’s defense and security committee seen by AFP gave details of six air bases in Europe and Turkey where it said the […] {$excerpt:n} Belgium: Storage of US Nukes Stirs Political Frenzy Source: VTT

House Censures Trump for Racism Washington (CNN)The House voted on Tuesday night to condemn racist language from President Donald Trump, capping off a tumultuous couple of hours on Capitol Hill including a brief time in which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was barred from speaking in the chamber. The vote was 240-187. Four Republicans and one independent — Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan […] {$excerpt:n} House Censures Trump for Racism Source: VTT

Epstein Continued Child Rapes While “Jailed” in Florida..and Fly to His Private Island Editor’s note:  A Palm Beach judge allowed Epstein to fly to his New York brownstone, where we now here his sex crimes continued and then off to his private island…all unsupervised while supposedly serving a sentence for child rape…and it gets worse, so much worse for the man who introduced the former Slovenian model, now […] {$excerpt:n} Epstein Continued Child Rapes While “Jailed” in Florida..and Fly to His Private Island Source: VTT

Existential Stupidity, the “Moron” Meme By Dick  Croy for VT When I wrote my stage play Morons, after availing myself of the abundance of evidence that 9/11 was a false flag operation aided and abetted by rogue elements within our own government, you’d be correct in assuming it was my intention to get in the face of as many people as […] {$excerpt:n} Existential Stupidity, the “Moron” Meme Source: VTT

UAE Owned Oil Tanker Vanishes in Persian Gulf Press TV: An oil tanker of reported Emirati ownership has been unaccounted for in the Persian Gulf for three straight days, a report claims. The small vessel Riah, which is Panama-flagged, went off radars on Saturday, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. The agency said the tanker has turned off its transponder. It also cited […] {$excerpt:n} UAE Owned Oil Tanker Vanishes in Persian Gulf Source: VTT

Central Asia’s Race Against Time …from SouthFront The Great Game, Part 3 The threat that faces Central Asia is particularly severe since the two sets of actors have asymmetrical objectives. Russia and China are rather interested in the political stability and economic success of the region which they view as essential to their own political and security objectives. It is […] {$excerpt:n} Central Asia’s Race Against Time Source: VTT

NEO: Republic of Georgia, the Real Story! By Henry Kamens, VT Tbilisi and New Eastern Outlook, Moscow What is going on? Is Dr. Michael Carpenter a mini-John Bolton in the making? The timing of the recent protests was to be expected. They sound as if Joe Biden is about ready to use Georgia for his “doomed” presidential campaign in much in the same […] {$excerpt:n} NEO: Republic of Georgia, the Real Story! Source: VTT

Exclusive: Hezbollah Withdraws from the Israeli Border    By Dr. Abdullah Manaz, VT Istanbul As a result of the security talks between Russia, the United States and Israel that preceded the G20, the fact of that Hezbollah in Lebanon was removed from the Israeli border became clear this week. Hassan Nasrallah, the political leader of Lebanese Hezbollah, told al-Menar television last weekend […] {$excerpt:n} Exclusive: Hezbollah Withdraws from the Israeli Border Source: VTT