From the Trenches World Report

Alt-Market – by Brandon Smith

For many years now I have focused a considerable amount of analysis on the subject of Syria, with an emphasis on the country’s importance to the global elites as a kind of geopolitical detonator; the first domino in a chain of dominoes that could lead to a war involving international powers. I believe this war will develop on multiple fronts, most importantly on the economic front, but it could very well turn into a shooting war involving numerous actors.  Continue reading “The Syrian Debacle Is Actually Well Planned Chaos”

Yahoo News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper’s son who rose to become the powerful chairman of a U.S. House committee that investigated President Donald Trump, died early Thursday of complications from longstanding health issues, his office said. He was 68.

Cummings was a formidable orator who passionately advocated for the poor in his black-majority district , which encompasses a large portion of Baltimore as well as more well-to-do suburbs.  Continue reading “Powerful Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings has died”

Breitbart – by John Binder

Acting United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ken Cuccinelli says there is no Constitutional Amendment needed to end the nation’s birthright citizenship, whereby millions of illegal aliens have been able to secure their U.S.-born children American citizenship.

During the Christian Science Monitor‘s breakfast with Cuccinelli, the acting director said he does not believe that an amendment to the Constitution is necessary for the U.S. to end its birthright citizenship policy. Continue reading “Ken Cuccinelli: Ending Birthright Citizenship Does Not Require Constitutional Amendment”

Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Law enforcement officials said on Wednesday they had arrested hundreds of people worldwide after knocking out a South Korea-based dark web child pornography site that sold gruesome videos for digital cash.

Officials from the United States, Britain and South Korea described the network as one of the largest child pornography operations they had encountered to date.  Continue reading “Dark web child porn bust leads to 338 arrests worldwide”

Reuters

The United States on Wednesday restored economic aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras that had been cut off after the Trump administration complained the three Central American countries had done too little to halt a surge in migration.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that some “targeted assistance” would resume as they praised governments of the three countries for reaching immigration agreements with the United States.  Continue reading “U.S. restores aid to Central America after reaching migration deals”

Breitbart – by Matthew Boyle

Peter Navarro, a senior White House adviser to President Donald Trump and the director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, is out with a new White House video provided exclusively to Breitbart News calling on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to hold a vote this month in the House on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement. Continue reading “White House’s Peter Navarro Pushes Nancy Pelosi to Pass US-Mexico-Canada Agreement: ‘More Important than Any China Deal’”

KBTX-TV 3

COLLEGE STATION, Tex. (KBTX) – A new law in Texas now requires high schools to have “Stop the Bleed” training and kits in their classrooms before January 1, 2020.

Baylor Scott & White stopped by A&M Consolidated High School to teach students how to stop traumatic bleeding. Doctors and nurses provided training on how to apply direct pressure, pack wounds, and use tourniquets.  Continue reading “Baylor Scott & White conducts “Stop the Bleed” training at local high schools”

KBTX-TV 3

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) A month after Tropical Storm Imelda, flood-damaged vehicles may be hitting the resale market, the Texas Department of Insurance warned Wednesday.

“Dishonest sellers will buy salvage cars at auction and resell them to unsuspecting buyers,” the department said in a press release Wednesday. Continue reading “Car buyers beware, state officials say”

AOL

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walked out of a meeting with Donald Trump about the crisis in Syria Wednesday after she said the president had had a “very serious meltdown” and insulted her in front of other congressional leaders.

“What’s really sad about it is that I pray for the president all the time and I tell him that, I pray for his safety and that of his family. Now we have to pray for his health, because this was a very serious meltdown on the part of the president,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill.  Continue reading “Pelosi describes Trump’s ‘very serious meltdown’ during White House meeting on Syria”

Tablet Magazine – by Assaf Gur

In a cage made of fortified glass, under heavy security, smiling in his orange jumpsuit, is Yitzhak Abergil. The reading glasses he wears from time to time, and the hearing aid tucked into his ear might give the mistaken impression of gentleness or physical incapacity: For decades, he was considered Israel’s most dangerous criminal, the undisputed king of the underworld, the man who could make you tremble with fear with just one look. But now the fear is dissipating as, one by one, the people closest to Abergil take the stand and tell the stories of how he headed a murderous international crime syndicate that left behind a trail of mutilated bodies, some belonging to fellow criminals who dared to question the king, some of them innocent bystanders who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Continue reading “A Field Guide to Israeli Organized Crime”

Legal Insurrection – by Kemberlee Kaye

Rep. Tlaib, Rep. Omar, and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez are throwing their support behind fellow socialist, Bernie Sanders.

Tuesday, it was reported that AOC was throwing her political weight behind Sanders, whose recent heart attack at the age of 78 has left him scrambling for support among younger voters.  Continue reading “Three “Squad” Members to Endorse Bernie Sanders”