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  • Swalwell Cozied Up to Lobbyist for ‘Putin’s Pipeline’ While Accusing GOP of Enabling Russia

    02/26/2022 5:28:01 PM PST · by Mr. Mojo · 24 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | February 23, 2022 | Chuck Ross
    Rep. Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), who has accused Republicans of enabling Russia, took maximum campaign donations from a top lobbyist for Nord Stream 2 AG, the company behind an oil transportation project dubbed "Putin’s pipeline." Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, received $2,900 last year from Vincent Roberti Sr., the chairman of lobbying powerhouse Roberti Global. Roberti gave $5,400 to Swalwell’s campaign in 2018. Roberti Global received $2.4 million in 2021 from Nord Stream 2 AG, a Switzerland-based subsidiary of Russian oil giant Gazprom. Critics of the 761-mile pipeline have long said it would allow Vladimir Putin to...
  • Estonia says Russia sent jet after attempt to stop sanction-breaking ship

    05/15/2025 6:23:27 AM PDT · by mac_truck · 17 replies
    Reuters ^ | 5/15/2025 | Andrius Sytas and Sabine Siebold
    TALLINN/ANTALYA, Turkey, May 15 (Reuters) - Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow. Russia, which regards sanctions as a malign attempt to crush its economy, says all its ships have free passage in the Baltic and any attempt to stop them is dangerous. Estonia's navy said the unflagged Jaguar ship, which went onto a UK sanctions list last week, refused to cooperate when asked to stop...
  • Syria’s Jihadi Ruler Thanks Trump for ‘Courageous and Historic’ Sanctions End

    05/15/2025 6:10:01 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 05/15/2025 | Frances Martel
    Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the head of the jihadist terrorist organization Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), praised President Donald Trump in an address on Wednesday for taking the “courageous and historic” step of lifting sanctions on his country. Sharaa delivered a speech to the Syrian people following an in-person meeting with President Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where President Trump concluded the first of three stops in a Middle East tour on Wednesday. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who first met Sharaa shortly after HTS toppled the half-century-old Assad family regime in Damascus, arranged and presided over the meeting. The...
  • Trump's meeting with Sharaa, unthinkable just months ago, boosts Syrians' hopes

    05/14/2025 1:22:30 PM PDT · by RandFan · 21 replies
    BBC ^ | May 14 | BBC
    Donald Trump has said his administration is now exploring the possibility of normalising relations with Syria - his comments coming shortly after he met Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, whose forces ended the decades-long dictatorship of the Assad family. The extraordinary encounter, unthinkable just months ago, was short but significant. "I think he has got the potential," Trump remarked after his meeting in Riyadh, 37 minutes long, with the former Syrian fighter formerly linked to Al-Qaeda. The $10m US bounty on his head was only lifted in December. Video footage of their conversation in a lavish Saudi royal palace showed...
  • Trump’s Middle East tour has more substance than the White House let on

    05/14/2025 10:05:52 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 14 replies
    MSN.com ^ | May 14, 2025 | Stephen Collinson
    There’s more to Donald Trump’s Middle East trip than billion-dollar contracts, parades of camels and a storm back home over Qatar’s offer to give the president a new Air Force One. A tour narrowly billed by the White House as a chance for Trump to show he’s a master dealmaker is jumbling the region’s geopolitical jigsaw puzzle.Wherever he goes, Trump’s brings disruption that can forge possibilities. And he takes risks – for instance, his decision on this trip to lift sanctions on Syria to give a war-ravaged nation a second chance.But the move revives a perennial question about Trump’s entire...
  • Democratic Party Opposition to Venezuela Sanctions Reprehensible

    05/30/2014 6:53:55 PM PDT · by dignitasnews · 15 replies
    Dignitas News Service ^ | May 30, 2014 | Paul M Winters
    In a reprehensible slap in the face to the oppressed people of Venezuela, far-left members of the Democratic Party are urging President Obama to resist bipartisan efforts to level sanctions against the authoritarian government of Nicholas Maduro. Based on comments by the Administration, apparently their sympathy for the Marxist regime is shared by the White House in a startling reversal of national doctrine of supporting freedom and liberty that has endured since the US was founded in 1776. John Conyers, Democratic Congressman from Michigan, penned a letter to Obama signed by he and 13 of his colleagues urging them to...
  • Trump announces secondary sanctions on any country that purchases oil or petrochemicals from Iran

    05/01/2025 12:40:19 PM PDT · by bitt · 30 replies
    https://justthenews.com ^ | May 1, 2025 | Misty Severi
    The moves are part of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign on Iran to help weaken its terrorist activities in the Middle East, including through its use of proxy forces. President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the United States will impose secondary sanctions on all countries or individuals that purchase oil or petrochemicals from Iran. The announcement comes a day after the State Department sanctioned seven entities it accused of trading Iranian oil and petrochemical products. The president confirmed the new secondary sanctions in a post on Truth Social, warning countries they would not be allowed to do business with...
  • McCabe memos show how disgraced FBI leader kept Trump-Russia collusion hoax alive in 2017

    04/25/2025 5:40:33 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 30 replies
    Just The News ^ | April 24, 2025 | Jerry Dunleavy
    Newly-declassified memos written by disgraced FBI official Andrew McCabe shine new light on how he kept the Trump-Russia collusion hoax investigation alive during a critical period in the first half of 2017 before he got it handed off to a special counsel. The eight memos penned by McCabe, most of which had never been released until earlier this month, span his discussions and meetings (including with President Donald Trump) held from January 24, 2017 to May 21, 2017 — a critical time period ranging from just before the FBI sprung an interview on retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn to just...
  • RT (Russia Today) Chief Editor praises Putin, then blames the West for his victory

    03/20/2018 1:59:26 PM PDT · by GoldenState_Rose · 9 replies
    Echo of Moscow ^ | Mar 2018 | Margarita Simonyan
    In general, the West should be horrified not by the 76 percent who backed Putin but by the fact that in the Russian elections: patriotic, communist and nationalist ideas were supported by 95 percent of the population, leaving the liberal ideas with a pathetic five percent. And you, my Western friends, are guilty of this. By your hostility and sanctions, you have pushed the Russian people into the arms of the Moscow regime. Had you behaved sensibly and reached compromises, this outcome would not have occurred; but now that it has, the West must assume all responsibility. As a result,...
  • Trump extends Russia sanctions for 12 months

    04/12/2025 3:13:03 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 17 replies
    BNN RT ^ | 4/12/2025 | Russia Today
    US President Donald Trump has prolonged by another year anti-Russian sanctions imposed by his predecessor, Joe Biden, suggesting that Moscow continues to pose a serious threat to the country's national security. Washington slapped punitive measures on Russia after it absorbed Crimea as a result of a referendum back in 2014, and later over Moscow's supposed meddling in American electoral processes, with the sanctions having been considerably stepped up following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. The document dated April 10, 2025, has appeared on the Federal Register's website, announcing the "Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect...
  • U.S. issues new sanctions on Iran ahead of talks in Oman

    04/11/2025 12:12:12 PM PDT · by Texas Fossil · 4 replies
    Shargh Daily ^ | April 10, 2025 | Araqchi
    The United States imposed new sanctions on five Iranian entities and one individual accused of supporting Iran’s nuclear program. IRNA - The United States Department of the Treasury issued new sanctions against Iran just two days after President Donald Trump announced plans for discussions with Tehran regarding its nuclear program. In a statement on Wednesday, the Treasury identified five Iranian entities and one individual as targets for their alleged support of Iran’s nuclear program. Among the designated groups were the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and its subsidiary, the Iran Centrifuge Technology Company. The sanctions also included Majid Mosallat, head...
  • Russia not on Trump's tariff list

    04/03/2025 8:35:48 AM PDT · by McGruff · 51 replies
    BBC ^ | April 3, 2025 | Vitaliy Shevchenko
    One country that did not feature on Donald Trump's list of tariffs on US trade partners was Russia. US outlet Axios quoted White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying this was because existing US sanctions on Russia "preclude any meaningful trade" and noting that Cuba, Belarus and North Korea were also not included. However, nations with even less trade with the US - such as Syria, which exported $11m of products last year according to UN data quoted by Trading Economics - were on the list. The US imposed large-scale sanctions on Russia after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine...
  • Trump allegedly thinks Putin is stalling ceasefire talks

    04/01/2025 12:14:13 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 4/1/2025 | Christian Baha
    United States President Donald Trump has expressed his frustration with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as he believes the latter is "slow-rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks," Fox News reported on Tuesday, citing sources. According to the sources, due to such behavior, the Trump administration is mulling "aggressive" sanctions enforcement that would affect Russia's "shadow fleet," among other things. The sources explained that the sanctions enforcement is currently "low," more specifically "level 3 out of 10." The sources went on to say that some 70% of Russia's illegal oil sales are done with the use of the "shadow fleet."
  • US treasury secretary vows to go “all in” on sanctions against Russia

    04/01/2025 11:42:00 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 27 replies
    Caliber Azerbaijan ^ | 3/13/2025 | Vafa Guliyeva
    The United States is ready to go "all in" on sanctions against Russia, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declared, signaling the administration's readiness to impose even harsher measures to pressure Moscow into peace negotiations. -snip- Bessent was critical of former US President Joe Biden's sanctions approach, describing them as "egregiously weak," particularly when it came to Russian energy. He argued that the weakness in these sanctions allowed Russia's military operations to continue, largely because of concerns about rising energy prices in the US. "A major factor that has enabled the Russian war machine's continued financing was the Biden administration's egregiously...
  • GOP Lawmakers Eye Expansion of ICC Sanctions as Court's Top Officials Turn to Europe for Relief

    04/01/2025 7:37:20 AM PDT · by Twotone · 4 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | March 31, 2025 | Adam Kredo
    The Trump administration and its Republican allies in Congress say they will fully enforce sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and are prepared to expand them in response to recent efforts from top ICC officials to evade the measures. Earlier this month, Judge Tomoko Akane, the ICC’s president, petitioned the European Union to invoke what is known as the blocking statute, a legal maneuver that shields EU members from sanctions issued by third-party countries such as the United States. Akane told the EU’s parliament "it is obvious the court cannot survive alone," warning them that "the time to act...
  • Russia targets Black Sea port hours after maritime ceasefire announced

    03/26/2025 8:43:20 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 55 replies
    EuroNews ^ | 3/26/2025 | Sertac Aktan with AP
    Russia launched an overnight drone strike against the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Mykolaiv, just hours after the US announced that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to a maritime ceasefire, authorities said. The mayor of Mykolaiv said on Wednesday morning that the city was experiencing emergency power outages. Meanwhile, the region's governor confirmed that the Ukrainian military had destroyed seven Russian drones in the region overnight. -snip- Although Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a Black Sea ceasefire after three days of separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh, questions remain about its implementation. Speaking on Tuesday, Zelenskyy...
  • EU says ‘unconditional withdrawal’ of Russia from Ukraine is a precondition to amend sanctions

    03/26/2025 6:24:42 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 108 replies
    WSAU ^ | 3/26/2025 | Thomson Reuters
    The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, a European Commission spokesperson said on Wednesday. European Union countries renewed the bloc’s two sanctions frameworks on Russia for another six months at the end of January and earlier this month. Any changes to sanctions require unanimity among its 27 member states. “The end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions,”...
  • US deportation flights to Venezuela resume following weeks-long standoff

    03/23/2025 6:43:19 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 7 replies
    Fox News ^ | 3/23/25 | Julia Bonavita
    Deportation flights to Venezuela resumed on Sunday after a weeks-long standoff between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government, signaling a deal had been reached between the two countries. A flight carrying 199 illegal aliens – including members of the violent Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang – to Venezuela landed Sunday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed to Fox News Digital. The Trump administration has vowed to strike a deal with the Venezuelan government to accept flights carrying deportees from the United States, but has been limited in the regularity of the transfers after President Nicholás Maduro halted the...
  • Trump directs Bondi to probe attorneys who lob ‘frivolous, unreasonable’ litigation against his administration

    03/23/2025 2:39:00 AM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    NY Post ^ | 3/22/25 | Ryan King
    President Trump directed US Attorney General Pam Bond to pursue penalties against law firms and lawyers that lodge “frivolous” litigation against the government. Trump pointed to civil procedure rules barring lawyers from lodging legal filings to “harass” or “cause unnecessary delay” and asked Bondi, 59, to recommend additional steps he could take to fight back. “Far too many attorneys and law firms have long ignored these requirements when litigating against the Federal Government or in pursuing baseless partisan attacks,” Trump said in a presidential memorandum the White House released Saturday. “I hereby direct the Attorney General to seek sanctions against...
  • Trump administration toughens sanctions on Russian oil, gas and banking sectors

    03/13/2025 2:05:44 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 14 replies
    CBS News ^ | 3/14/2025 | Jennifer Jacobs, Ed O'Keefe
    The Trump administration is placing more restrictions on Russia's oil, gas and banking sectors by further restricting Russian access to U.S. payment systems, according to four people familiar with the plans. The Treasury Department on Wednesday let lapse a 60-day exemption put in place by the Biden administration in January that allowed specific energy transactions involving sanctioned Russian banks to continue. By letting the waiver lapse, the banks may no longer access U.S. payment systems to conduct major energy transactions. The Russian financial institutions that had been exempt from sanctions included Vnesheconombank, Bank Financial Corporation Otkritie, Sovcombank, Sberbank, VTB Bank,...