A troubling pattern of systemic failures emerges at Cannon Air Force Base, as a recent account from a service member reveals neglect and harassment within the ranks, raising serious questions about the treatment of service members during critical times.
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Last night at 1 am ET, President Donald Trump bragged that Iran “really wants to make a deal.” This morning, however, Iran announced that it is suspending talks over Israel’s ongoing bombing of Lebanon. This setback is the latest in a string of embarrassments as Trump desperately tries to extract the U.S. from the economically devastating war he started over three months ago.As the Daily Beast reports, in the early hours of the morning, Trump posted, “‘Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us.’ He went on to attack Democrats and ‘various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans’ for making it harder for him to negotiate an agreement with ‘negatively “chirping,” at levels never seen before.’”Trump ended with a word of advice: “Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end — It always does!”Just hours later, an Iranian state news made a statement that didn’t bode well for the president’s assertion, declaring, “Given the continuation of the Israeli regime’s attacks in Lebanon, and considering that Lebanon had been one of the preconditions for a ceasefire — which has now been violated on all fronts, including Lebanon — the Iranian negotiating team is suspending ‘talks and exchanges of texts through mediators.’” Iran has consistently maintained that any peace deal would be contingent on the cessation of Israeli attacks on Lebanon. According to the Associated Press, however, Israeli forces have made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in over 25 years. While Israeli leadership says it is attacking Iranian-backed Hezbollah groups, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has accused Israel of “implementing a policy of total destruction of cities and towns.” So far, over 3,300 people, including many children, have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli forces, and about 1 million people have been displaced. Meanwhile, the U.S. and Iran have been exchanging strikes over the weekend and into Monday.Wrangling over the war’s aims and end has caused sharp fractures in the Republican Party between hawks who demand maximum concessions from Iran and those who are feeling the electoral backlash from the conflict’s disastrous economic impacts and want it to end as quickly as possible. As things stand now, many Republicans are beginning to admit the bad position into which the president has gotten himself.According to Danielle Pletka, a senior fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, “The reporting on it suggests that it’s a terrible deal, that the president has gotten basically nothing that he said he was getting, and that his negotiators have embarrassed him.”Other experts have pointed out that the president now faces many of the same challenges former President Barack Obama grappled with while negotiating the Iran nuclear deal that Trump later tore up, and that at best, any new deal is going to look very similar to the old one. “Nearly a decade later, with oil prices sky-high,” wrote Anik Joshi in the American Conservative, “it is beyond parody that we are back to where this all began.”
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley confronted new executive producer Nick Bilton and another CBS executive Monday morning in what Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr described as a "heated meeting," pushing back forcefully on last week's mass firings at the storied newsmagazine.Pelley didn't mince words about who he held responsible."She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, according to Barr. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that."Producers were present and showed support for Pelley during the meeting, Barr said.The firings Pelley pushed back on included veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, fellow correspondent Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon, and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich — all ousted last Thursday as Weiss installed Bilton, a tech journalist and TV news outsider, to lead the broadcast.Pelley's outrage has been building for months. When Weiss pulled Alfonsi's CECOT segment just hours before its scheduled December broadcast — after it had cleared every internal editorial and legal review — Pelley lashed out in a staff meeting. "She needs to take her job a little bit more seriously," he said at the time, according to The New Yorker.On Wednesday night, just hours before Alfonsi was formally fired, Pelley saluted her from the stage at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards at Lincoln Center.Critics have accused Weiss of spiking the CECOT story to placate the Trump administration, a charge her allies deny. Alfonsi, who has hired a litigator, called her ouster "a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting."
Israel expands Lebanon offensive as U.S.-Iran peace talks stall, Congress returns to D.C. with long to-do list, rulings create more obstacles for Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund.
House Democrats continue to fail at effectively utilizing social media to combat President Donald Trump’s agenda. On Thursday, the official House Dems X account railed against Immigration […]
