Iran’s malign behavior in the region is a direct and significant threat to the United States’ economic and strategic interests and to the American people, and risks triggering a wider conflict The White House National Security Council February 13, 2019 The core objective of President Trump’s Iran Strategy is the systemic change in the Islamic ...
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By Weblord | 13 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: Houthi, Iran, JCPOA, Policy, Straits of Hormuz
In four graphics, learn more about the 116th Congress, the legislative branch of the federal government, composed of the Senate, made up of 100 members, and the House of Representatives, which consists of 435 members.
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By Weblord | 8 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: Congress, Policy, policy update
The United States stands with interim President Juan Guaidó, the democratically elected National Assembly and the people of Venezuela as they peacefully restore constitutional order and democracy to their country.
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By Weblord | 7 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Policy, policy update, Venezuela
To address this ongoing crisis, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently announced $20 million in aid in initial humanitarian assistance for Venezuelans, on top of the $140 million in humanitarian and development aid for surrounding countries to support the more than 3.6 million Venezuelans who have fled Maduro’s tyranny.
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By Weblord | 5 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy, Western Hemisphere
| Tags: Food, Nicolas Maduro, Policy, policy update, usaid, Venezuela
The United States on February 2 suspended its obligations under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because of Russia’s material breach of the treaty and its refusal to dismantle its intermediate-range, ground-launched cruise missile. U.S. officials say that Russia has responded with a barrage of lies and obfuscations but has made no move to come back ...
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By Weblord | 4 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: acda, arms control, INF, Intermediate-Range, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Policy
The White House Office of the Press Secretary February 2, 2019 BACKGROUND BRIEFING BY SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS ON THE INTERMEDIATE-RANGE NUCLEAR FORCES (INF) TREATY Via Teleconference 9:15 A.M. EST SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Good morning. Thank you for adjusting to our slight delay this morning. It was a typical Washington reaction to snow. By now, ...
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By Weblord | 2 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: acda, arms control, INF, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, Policy
The United States has fully adhered to the INF Treaty for more than 30 years, but we will not remain constrained by its terms while Russia misrepresents its actions. We cannot be the only country in the world unilaterally bound by this treaty, or any other. We will move forward with developing our own military ...
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By Weblord | 1 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: acda, arms control, Policy
Russia has not, unfortunately, honored the agreement, so we’re going to terminate the agreement. We’re going to pull out The White House February 01, 2019 RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY TO ARMS CONTROL: President Donald J. Trump is taking decisive action to hold Russia accountable for its violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Violations must have ...
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By Weblord | 1 February, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy, President of the United States
| Tags: arms control, INF, Intermediate-Range, Nuclear, Policy, policy update
Secretary of State Pompeo said "[Such] scenes of misery are now the norm in Nicolas Maduro’s Venezuela, where millions of children are suffering from malnutrition and starvation thanks to a socialist experiment that caused the economy to collapse."
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By Weblord | 31 January, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: deprivation, hardship, Nicolas Maduro, Policy, policy update, Venezuela
The White House Statements & Releases January 24, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence met today with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt of the United Kingdom. The Foreign Secretary updated the Vice President on the status of preparations for the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union and both reaffirmed a mutual desire for a U.S.-UK bilateral ...
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By Weblord | 24 January, 2019 | Categories:
News, Policy
| Tags: Policy, policy update
Today’s topics: Mine clearance / Kerry-Mogherini meet / Wisconsin / The Malaria Hunter / DoD Airstrikes on al-Qaida / Obama and NATO’s Stoltenberg / General Austin on Centcomm U.S. States – Wisconsin
Wisconsin: Architecture, air shows and folk art Wisconsin, a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region, has a diverse landscape of forests, farms and lakefront beaches. Outdoor recreation is popular ...
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By Weblord | 5 April, 2016 | Categories:
Former U.S. Government Leaders, Policy
| Tags: Abu Firas al-Suri, al-Quaida, Architect, Barack Obama, Centcom, Conventional Weapons Destruction, daesh, EU High Representative, Federica Mogherini, Frank Lloyd Wright, General Lloyd Austin, Habiba Suleiman Sefu, ISIL, Malaria, NATO, Policy, Ramadi, Stoltenberg, Syria, Taliesin, usaid, Wisconsin, Zanzibar
The 2016 Summit (31 March – 01 April ) brings together more than 50 countries and international organizations to continue discussions on the evolving threat and highlight steps that can be taken together to deter, detect, and disrupt attempts at nuclear terrorism. 2016 Nuclear Security Summit The 2016 Summit website is at
NSS2016.org 31 March ...
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By Weblord | 1 April, 2016 | Categories:
Policy
| Tags: atomic power, belgium, intelligence sharing, landfill, Nuclear Security Summit, peaceful use of atom, Policy, recycling, upcycle
Nuclear Security Summit 30 March 2016
White House Press Call Previewing the Nuclear Security Summit “In this summit schedule, which I will address in a little bit, we deal, in addition to nuclear security and nuclear energy, with our ongoing efforts to promotes nonproliferation, specifically a number of meetings that will focus on our efforts to promote denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and ...
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By Weblord | 31 March, 2016 | Categories:
Policy
| Tags: NSS2016, Nuclear Security Summit, Policy
Two recent independent reports paint a bleak picture of Internet freedom in Russia. Freedom House, which monitors Internet freedom in 65 countries, for the first time
ranked Russia as “not free,” the lowest of three possible rankings. Russia’s Internet Freedom 29 March 2016
Russia’s internet freedom is shrinking Two recent independent reports paint a bleak picture of Internet freedom in ...
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By Weblord | 29 March, 2016 | Categories:
Policy
| Tags: Adrian Shahbaz, Antony J. Blinken, Freedom House, Internet Freedom, Iraq, ISIL, Joint Resolve, Nuclear Security Summit, Policy, Russia, Sinjar, Sultan Abdallah
