Poisonous Cartoon Crosses the Line?

Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell has plenty of previous form when it comes to producing poisonous anti-Israel imagery that crosses the line into antisemitism. His latest cartoon “Mike Pompeo’s prayer for Middle East peace” raises similar questions. We see caricatures of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. […]

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Pompeo on John Kerry: Past Secretaries of State Should ‘Get Off the Stage’

(CNSNews.com) – Former secretaries of state should “get off the stage” and leave foreign policy to their successors, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday, when asked about John Kerry’s interactions with the Iranian regime since leaving the State Department. Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble whether Kerry’s reported conversations with his former Iranian counterpart made […]

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Iranian cleric: US fleet could be ‘destroyed with one missile’

A senior Iranian cleric warned on Friday that a US navy fleet could be “destroyed with one missile”, Reuters reported, citing the semi-official ISNA news agency. The comments, by Ayatollah Yousef Tabatabai-Nejad, were made in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. “Their billion (-dollar) fleet can be destroyed with one missile,” he was quoted as […]

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US Secretary of State Sends Britain Message It Needs to Hear

Speaking Wednesday in London at the Centre for Policy Studies—a distinguished think tank founded by Margaret Thatcher—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered the annual Margaret Thatcher Lecture. And he said just what Britain needed to hear. The essence of Pompeo’s remarks was that Britain is a great and global power, with which the United States enjoys a […]

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