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[picture of Robert Creamer] Looks like the Marxist architect of Obamacare also had a major say in putting forth the Iran Deal. Robert Creamer was convicted in 2005 for tax violations and bank fraud. He served time and was under house arrest. While in prison, he crafted the core underpinnings of Obamacare. Creamer is a political consultant who is very close to Barack Obama and is married to Jan Schakowsky, the Marxist Congresswoman from Illinois. While on the inside, he wrote, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win. Obamacare was only the first major step in...

An anti-Israel activist who served as an expert witness on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in a recent terrorism trial was hosted for a meeting with senior White House officials, according to visitor logs released by the Obama administration and media reports.Michael Sfard, an anti-Israel activist who has reportedly been paid by the PLO to serve as an expert witness in terrorism trials against it, met in December 2014 with a senior White House National Security Council (NSC) member for a meeting about the Middle East, according to the logs and reports.Sfard, a lawyer, serves as the legal...

Sally Lilienthal, a staunch nuclear weapons opponent who founded the influential Ploughshares Fund to help shape the Cold War disarmament agenda, has died. She was 87. Lilienthal, who was also known for her activism and ubiquitous presence in San Francisco high society, died at a hospital Tuesday of a bone infection that led to pneumonia, said Naila Bolus, executive director of the fund. Lilienthal raised $100,000 in 1981 to give the Ploughshares Fund its start. Since then, the organization has made more than $40 million in grants to promote peace through arms control. "She founded it with very little, but...

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S propaganda boasted that allied troops would commit suicide at the gates of Baghdad. However, the only remains to be found at the entrance to the capital are those of the Iraqi military machine, which is soon to be recycled. Just ten days ago, this was an empty patch of wasteland. Now, as far as the eye can see, covering hundreds of acres, lie the carcasses of Saddam’s Army. Tanks are piled on top of one another, their guns pointing skywards. Turrets of decapitated armoured vehicles lie upside down in the dirt. Air defence guns hug each other in...

American b-52 bombers involved in training flights over the North were out in force again yesterday. Two of the 14 long-range bombers stationed at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire took off yesterday morning and flew for three hours. The aircraft are believed to have been involved in exercises over Northumberland on Friday. Security at the RAF base has been stepped up following break-ins by peace protesters. Two of those involved have been charged with damaging a number of B-52 support vehicles. Margaret Jones, 54, of Bristol and Arthur Milling, 57, of Birmingham, were taken into custody after their arrest by Ministry...