Tag Archives: State Department

And this is why we can’t find anyone to serve in our Diplomatic Corps

By Mark | October 13, 2017

Yesterday, when Energy Secretary Rick Perry referred to Puerto Rico as a country, apparently not understanding that it’s an American territory, I though that we’d perhaps reached a Trump administration low point that might actually stand through the weekend. But then Trump took the stage at at a conference of American hate groups today and […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged ambassador, Charlie Kaufman, diplomacy, diplomatic corps, Donald Trump, foreign relations, Puerto Rico, Rick Perry, Virgin Islands | 10 Comments

Follow the money… And keep an eye on the sanctions… The quid pro quo at the heart of the the relationship between the Trump administration and the government of Vladamir Putin is finally beginning to emerge

By Mark | June 2, 2017

Earlier today, as Trump was formally bringing an end to the era of American global leadership by backing out of the Paris accord over the protests of environmentalists, business leaders and world leaders alike, some significant things were happening in the investigation into the quid pro quo at the heart of the relationship between the […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Ben Cardin, Christopher Steele, collusion, Donald Trump, dossier, Gary Cohn, global climate change, Global Warming, James Comey, Jared Kushner, Jef Sessions, Lindsay Graham, Magnitsky Act., Maxine Waters, Mayflower Hotel, Michael Flynn, Obama, Paris Accord, Rosneft, Russia, sanctions, Sergei Lavrov, Sergey Gorkov, Sergey Kislyak, Vladimir Putin, Vnesheconombank | 15 Comments

Bannon grabs more power in the Trump White House

By Mark | January 29, 2017

I have no idea what it all means, but, while we were all donating to the ACLU and mobilizing to fight Trump’s Muslim ban, news came out that our President, by executive order, had removed the Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the National Security Council, replacing […]