Is Trump Assembling a War Cabinet?

Source: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/49086.htm
By Patrick Buchanan

March 27, 2018

The last man standing between the U.S. and war with Iran may be a four-star general affectionately known to his Marines as "Mad Dog."

Gen. James Mattis, the secretary of defense, appears to be the last man in the Situation Room who believes the Iran nuclear deal may be worth preserving and that war with Iran is a dreadful idea.

Yet, other than Mattis, President Donald Trump seems to be creating a war cabinet.

Trump himself has pledged to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal – "the worst deal ever" – and reimpose sanctions in May.

The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/28/the-skripal-poisonings-and-the-ongoing-vilification-of-putin/

by Gary Leupp

March 28, 2018

Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England.

Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names of Russian spies to British intelligence from 1995 to 2004. He was (not so surprisingly) arrested in Russia in 2004 and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. He was released in a spy-swap in 2010, settled in the UK and became a British citizen.