It is quite obvious what "triggered" Trump's tweet. It was the North Korean pullback from the liaison office. But Bloomberg, like other U.S. outlets, ignores that quite obvious explanation. This constant ignorance of the action of the other side is one of the systemic problems U.S. media have.

New sanctions were announced to which North Korea reacted negatively. Trump, who wants to keep the door open for future negotiations, took note and pulled back on the sanctions. But John Bolton intervened. The sanctions were kept. A well sounding but implausible explanation was found. North Korea accepted that and came back to the table.

How dare you not help us railroad Julian Assange.

"Gee, when we support unreformed NAZIs controlling the government in Croatia and Ukraine, we never thought that in an international economy that might lead to that ideology spreading" (imagine a state dept goon saying in the dopiest voice possible)

For years it's been the FIBbies keeping white supremacy going (like they keep the online CP rings going), I assume for the same reason the GLADIO types internationally have cultivated NAZIs and Wahabbi lunatics abroad. The state cultivates these terrorists as controlled opposition groups to ensure the gravy train never stops.

Pretty much. And like last time, it was the anti-war anti-empire crowd that got it right from the very beginning. Trusting anything coming out of the security services is beyond idiotic.

There was never real gray area here. Either Trump is a compromised foreign agent, or he isn’t. If he isn’t, news outlets once again swallowed a massive disinformation campaign, only this error is many orders of magnitude more stupid than any in the recent past, WMD included. Honest reporters like ABC’s Terry Moran understand: Mueller coming back empty-handed on collusion means a “reckoning for the media.”

Of course, there won’t be such a reckoning. (There never is). But there should be. We broke every written and unwritten rule in pursuit of this story, starting with the prohibition on reporting things we can’t confirm.

Like then, you indeed can take it to the bank that the media will never be held to account, other than their ratings souring worse than they already have.

No surprise, this is something that had to be true, considering how it worked out.

May continues to be a bozo

Uhh... okay? Figures it would be britbongs that deny the asylum.

Shit, same old hustle. The stuff grows wild around there, so "who cares" would have been my thought about weed. Just a bunch of hills and greenery out there for the most part -- pigs must have been mighty bored.

Even the employees know it is a scam

Cheaper than going to the gun store, seems like.

Made common cause with the black bloc. Things seem to be sliding into revolutionary agitation quickly.

Of course you knew that the NSA supposedly stopping their spying efforts was a lie, right?

...as always, it is those very agencies that have failed their charges, who will be first in line to exploit the news cycle in a quest to justify the provision of ever more money, more power, more resources and ultimately, the ability for them to engage in ever more spying.

Of course, they'll continue to do what they always do, which is "just let it happen" RE real terror and then spy on potential movements to empower the peasantry instead, as that's all the State ever cares about watching for.

Seems obligitory for any major terror attack at this point.

Amazing if so.

Despite being of the most maligned ancient scholars (academically), he sure seems to get it right whenever people actually find archaeological artifacts from the period.

Clearly crazed neocon thinking.

Sounds like arranged marriages are likely to make a comeback? Of course, since it'll be arranged by the state, good luck getting a wife if you are a pleb.

File in the "no surprise" category

Fellow doesn't even have the balls to consider debate. Rogan, as usual, exposes this rather quickly without offending the guest.

Apparently some fighters in Yemen that the USA drone bombed came from there after getting "radicalized" -- probably meaning the USA had bombed some of their relatives. Meanwhile, the other three suspects mysteriously uncharged.

Meanwhile, Macron is skiing. No echoes of other famous french leaders who didn't care about peasants here, nosiree.

Baghodlrs better hope they get "weak hands" before all is said and done.