“You have to go back to Nixon to find a president with as strong negative views about the agency. But the agency did not get this kind of public disparagement from Nixon.” –Paul Pillar, a former senior CIA official, in an interview with AlterNet. [1]
Discussion of ‘Trump and the Deep State’ is resonating across the independent media spectrum in the wake of the resignation of President Trump’s pick for National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
Flynn was a significant ally in any effort to reform the national security state and fend off a Cold War showdown with Russia. Trump’s dismissal of Flynn has been portrayed as comparable to the sacrifice of a pawn to protect more important assets in a much larger chess game with a faction of the Deep State.
A more comprehensive discussion of these developments will be featured in a future installment of the Global Research News Hour. In the meantime, this January 20th broadcast, suggested as a substitute for the February 17th show, provides some context and outlines much of the fundamentals in this emerging constitutional crisis striking the heart of U.S. democracy. – MAW ]
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Donald Trump has finally taken his oath of office and assumed the role of President of theUnited States of America.
His inauguration on Friday, January 20th coincided with numerous protests both in Washington and in cities across the US and around the world.
Trump’s rise to power and his cabinet picks have provoked numerous questions. Will he indeed build a wall between Mexico and the US? Will he register Muslims? What will become of the Free trade agreements like NAFTA which he has vowed to scrap or renegotiate? If he is mending relations withRussia, what will that mean for current hot-spots Syria and Ukraine, and for foreign policy generally?
On this week’s Global Research News Hour we take a look behind the scenes to determine how political events such as the recent election, are being manipulated to achieve elite ends, and the consequences for US democracy, and perhaps the future of Humanity.
Dr. Jack Rasmus is a progressive journalist, radio host, former union organizer and local president, and author. Hs upcoming book, ‘Central Bankers on the Ropes: Monetary Policy and the Next Depression’ will be released in April.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa, Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG), Montreal, and Editor of Global Research.
Mark Robinowitz is a writer, political activist, ecological campaigner and permaculture practitioner and publisher of oilempire dot us, a political map to connect the dots. campaigner and permaculture practitioner for over three decades.
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1) http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-cia-war
