Caitlin Johnstone — Nikki Haley To Be Replaced By Blonde Version Of Nikki Haley

Is this becoming an American tradition?

Caitlin Johnstone — Rogue Journalist
Nikki Haley To Be Replaced By Blonde Version Of Nikki Haley
Caitlin Johnstone

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson — — I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.

Crosspost of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's op-ed in the New York Times.

Russia Insider
I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It’s Happening Again.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, US Army (ret.)

Reuters — U.S. envoy Haley: Russia interference in elections is 'warfare'

Ratcheting up.

“When a country can come interfere in another country’s elections that is warfare. It really is, because you’re making sure that the democracy shifts from what the people want,” she said. “This is their new weapon of choice and we have to get in front of it.”

Either Haley is a moron, or the level of hypocrisy is incredible, or maybe some combination.

Where has the US not interfered with elections, tried to influence them, or overturn their outcome or alt least tried to do, sometimes though a coup?

Reuters
U.S. envoy Haley: Russia interference in elections is 'warfare'

Taking a page from HRC's playbook. Actually, it is SOP for the defeated in banana republics to cry fraud. HRC is the first to do it in a developed country like the US, and after she accused DJT of planning to do this when she beat him, calling it unpatriotic.

Leaders of Venezuela's bruised opposition to travel abroad to denounce 'voting fraud'

Alexandra Ulmer, Corina Pons

Michael Krieger — Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump – Part 1

I’ve published several posts on the topic, with the most popular one titled, Prepare for Impact – This is the Beginning of the End for U.S. Empire. Here’s an excerpt:

This is not the sort of thing you see in a confident, brave, and civilized nation, it’s the sort of stuff you’d expect to see toward the end. It’s the stuff of craven war-mongers, of dishonest cowards, of a totally deranged and very dangerous media. The signs are everywhere; imperial decline is set to accelerate rapidly in the coming years…

Krieger zeroes in on über-hawks Tom Cotton and Nikki Haley. He sees Cotton as the major foreign policy influence on the president, more influential the the generals, and Haley as likely to replace Tillerson if he leaves the administration, which seems increasingly likely.

Tom Cotton is as dangerous a war hawk as exists in America today.…

Tom Cotton might actually be the most dangerous person in the entire U.S. Senate (which is saying a lot), so the fact he’s become so cozy with Trump on foreign policy is extremely dangerous....

I’m glad Nikki Haley came up, as she’s a certified grade-A maniac and bloodthirsty neocon. While she’s dangerous enough at the U.N., there’s talk that she could ultimately replace Tillerson as Secretary of State. Any combination of Cotton and Haley moving into increased prominence within the Trump circle of influence effectively guarantees more disastrous war in the Middle East....

I wouldn't limit that to the Middle East.

The post doesn't mention it, but Donald Trump initially offered the job of Secretary of State to Haley but she turned it down for the UN. Haley, Samantha Power, and Madeleine Albright are cut from the same mold.

Liberty Blitzkrieg
Empire Destroying Wars Are Coming to America Under Trump – Part 1

Michael Krieger

Wilkerson — Trump is Clueless on North Korea

LW: You've got people like John Bolton and others, and I know Bolton particularly well, which is why I bring his name up, that want regime change and don't care how many people die to bring it about. They're absolutely committed to that sort of objective, whether it be Iran or North Korea or whomever. They want regime change, and if it takes war to do it, so be it. And if it takes hundreds of thousands of causalities, so be it. I can't explain to you why they feel that way except that I think sometimes they're insane, but they do feel that way. There's more of them than you might think.…

TRNN
Wilkerson: Trump is Clueless on North KoreaAaron Mate interviews Larry Wilkerson, Lt. Col. (ret.) US Army, former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, now a distinguished professor at the College of William and Mary

Tom Winter — Times we laughed at the US State Department, chapter 2 "If we have to use force it is because we are America"

Nikki Haley takes over from Samantha Power. All that changes is the color of the hair.

Fort Russ
Times we laughed at the US State Department, chapter 2 "If we have to use force it is because we are America"
Tom Winter

SouthFront — US Calls Itself ‘World’s Moral Conscience’

Yikes! The American elite as a combination of global pope, police, and judge.

SouthFront
US Calls Itself ‘World’s Moral Conscience’

VV2

Reuters — Trump chooses Governor Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador: statement

Smart choice. The criticism is that she has little foreign policy experience. That is probably a feature rather than a bug.

Reuters
Trump chooses Governor Nikki Haley for U.N. ambassador: statement

See also

So long, Samantha.

The Duran
War hungry Samantha Power out as UN Ambassador. Trump appoints Nikki Haley to top spot at United Nations
Alex Christoforou

David Edwards — South Carolina House passes nullification bill to make Obamacare a crime

Been there, done that. They want a re-do?

States rights advocates see nullification as aviable alternative to secession because they claim the state has authority under the Tenth Amendment to invalidate unconstitutional legislation.

The Raw Story
South Carolina House passes nullification bill to make Obamacare a crime
David Edwards