by Heather Hastie | May 3, 2018 | International Politics, Middle East, US Politics
A couple of days ago, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, did a slick presentation announcing he had proof that Iran was lying when they signed the Iran Nuclear Agreement. (It’s official name is the JCPOA – Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 4, 2018 | US Politics
Tomorrow we’ll have the final of Third Month Mania. The original 64 lies will be down to two items – one from each conferences. Theconferrences are the Donald Trump and the Everyone Else. The two conferences are fitting. Some of the contenders in the...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 18, 2018 | International Politics, Russia, Tweets, US Politics
The sacking of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe last night by US Attorney General Jeff Sessions was to be the subject of today’s post. However, thing’s aren’t going to plan. The post is not going to be worthy of public viewing today. Further,...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 10, 2018 | Asia, International Politics, US Politics
Since long before he became president, Donald Trump has been attacking and insulting Kim Jong-un and North Korea. CNN has a new article that’s a compilation of ‘All the times President Trump has insulted North Korea’. As you can imagine,...
by Heather Hastie | Mar 7, 2018 | Economics, International Politics, US Politics
Last week President Trump announced that he was putting a 25% tariff on all imports of steel to the US, and 10% on all imports of aluminium. There would be no exceptions. The announcement was quite sudden, with virtually no consultation. Trump is making the move using...
by Heather Hastie | Feb 11, 2018 | US Politics, Women
I begin writing this after watching Anderson Cooper’s interview on CNN with former White House staffer Rob Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby on 9 February (NZ time). Anyone who saw it who has been in an abusive relationship of any kind will...
