WHILE YOUR ATTENTION WAS DIRECTED ELSEWHERE: The U.S. is fast choking off two of China's major oil suppliers, Iran and Venezuela, and last Thursday, a Treasury and Commerce Department order effectively closed the American market to Huawei, the biggest Chinese cell phone manufacturer. That follows an announcement on May 14 by the US Trade Representative of a 25% tariff on a $300 billion basket of Chinese-made goods.

Yes, we are back to square one.

The U.S. has been squeezing the Russian oil and gas industry since 2014.

She’s good on some issues, but others…my stars.  H/t to Tony Cartalucci on Twitter (3-parts) for the heads-up.

 “Inside Syria’s Secret Prisons”: A Harrowing Account of How Assad’s Torture Machine Crushed Dissent’, democracynow.org, May 16, 2019 

Dubya "the constitution is only a piece of paper"
or empty suit "look forward, not back" that he
would've been hailed as a great learner or maybe
even been given the medal of freedom, but no he
choose to quote the wrong war criminals and for
that reason he is under scrutiny for bringing anti-semitic
unacceptable and offensive behavior to HP HS,
damn wtf was he thinking....