The official said it’s her responsibility to ensure “every person on this planet” recognizes the importance of Israel. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce has sparked condemnation after a reporter unearthed an interview in which she said the U.S. is the best...
There’s a bit of a media brawl taking place this week over the issue of USAID funding which was cut off by DOGE. At base it’s an argument over whether the cutting off of that funding has had any clearly discernible effects in places around the globe. There is a Boston University professor named Brooke...
J.D. Vance may be Vice President, but Marco Rubio is the Deputy President, currently holding FOUR JOBS in the administration, including the all-important Secretary of State position as well as the National Security Advisor. ???? LMAO! Think you’re busy? Try being MARCO RUBIO! Who is now: – U.S. Secretary of State– Acting U.S. National Security...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for Syria’s transitional authorities to be supported, warning that the country could be only weeks away from “potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions”. At a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he defended President Donald Trump’s decision last week to lift sanctions...
Germany’s Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as right-wing extremist, after sharp criticism from the White House. US Vice-President JD Vance accused “bureaucrats” of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as “tyranny in disguise”. In an unusual move, the foreign...
This was so under the radar with everything else going on in the world that I’m just reading about it this morning, days after it happened. The Rwandan genocide of 1996-1997, aka The First Congo War – you probably all remember those horrific images of minority ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutus who had been slaughtered...
The New York Times pretended to have a scoop, outlining the major changes coming to the State Department under Marco Rubio. The only problem with the story? It was entirely fake. Well, not entirely. Rubio IS shaking up the State Department; it’s just that in every other respect, the Times got it wrong. Ed wrote...
The US is a “beacon of hope for millions of people around the world,” he said amid his sweeping deportation campaign. Secretary of State Marco Rubio touted the closure of a State Department office focusing on foreign disinformation in a self-congratulatory statement crediting himself for being a harbinger of free speech on Wednesday — as...
Federal officials are seeking to deport the Columbia pro-Palestine protester to the occupied West Bank. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly claimed in a memo that pro-Palestine activists protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza are undermining the U.S.’s supposed goal of a “peaceful” end to the violence, new reporting finds, providing a glimpse into the...
“There’s a lot of other rich countries in the world, they should all be pitching in. “We’re going to do our part. We already have people there. We’ll have more people there. We’ll help as much as we can [but] it’s not the easiest place to work… they have a military junta that doesn’t like...