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President Obama and his administration continue to support the global Islamist militant group known the Muslim Brotherhood. A White House strategy document regards the group as a moderate alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011 and outlines administration support for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, according to officials familiar with the classified study. Efforts to force the administration to release the directive or portions of...

A top official of the National Security Council was fired last month after arguing in a memo that President Trump is under sustained attack from subversive forces both within and outside the government who are deploying Maoist tactics to defeat President Trump’s nationalist agenda. His dismissal marks the latest victory by National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in the ongoing war within Trump’s White House between those who believe that the president is under threat from dark forces plotting to undermine him, and those like McMaster who dismiss this as conspiratorial thinking. Rich Higgins, a former Pentagon official who served in...

Behind the rise of ISIS, the Libyan Civil War, the unrest in Egypt, Yemen and across the region may be a single classified document.That document is Presidential Study Directive 11.You can download Presidential Study Directive 10 on “Preventing Mass Atrocities” from the White House website, but as of yet no one has been able to properly pry number 11 out of Obama Inc.Presidential Study Directive 10, in which Obama asked for non-military options for stopping genocide, proved to be a miserable failure. The Atrocities Prevention Board’s only use was as a fig leaf for a policy that had caused the...

WASHINGTON — President Obama ordered his advisers last August to produce a secret report on unrest in the Arab world, which concluded that without sweeping political changes, countries from Bahrain to Yemen were ripe for popular revolt, administration officials said Wednesday. Mr. Obama’s order, known as a Presidential Study Directive, identified likely flashpoints, most notably Egypt, and solicited proposals for how the administration could push for political change in countries with autocratic rulers who are also valuable allies of the United States, these officials said.

/begin my translation Shedding Tears for Nothing... Kim Jong-il Suffering from Depression? According to online newsletter by 'Open N. Korea Dispatch(Yolin Bukkan Tongshin,)' N. Korean leader Kim Jong-il is showing tears for no particular reason even in the presence of his bodyguards, making people suspect that he is suffering complication from stroke. In its dispatch on June 8, it reported, "During last two years of his life(before his death in '94,) the late leader Kim Il-sung(Kim Jong-il's father) was frequently waxing nostalgic and seen shedding tears alone while tending to a plot of field (360 sq ft.) in front of...

Army Command Sgt. Maj. John Moody, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, visits with Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, while Staff Sgt. Bradley Hoy, command personal security detachment team leader, pulls security during a mission in southern Baghdad. Photo by Spc. Jason Dangel. By Spc. Jason DangelSpecial to American Forces Press Service FOB PROSPERITY -- In the early morning hours, a Soldier awakens as a stern voice blaring over his radio instructs the leader to rally his men and be ready to move into Southern Baghdad in less than 30 minutes.Fifteen minutes...