(10.8.2017) The Zionist Organization of America announced Monday that it was undertaking a review of McMaster’s record on Israel, according to an “exclusive” story in the right-wing website, Breitbart. On Wednesday, the group released a statement calling for McMaster to be reassigned from the National Security Council because, according to the ZOA, he “purged from the NSC those officials who were carrying out President Trump’s policies of combating Iranian and radical Islamist transnational threats.”

(5.8.2017) That campaign — which may include some top White House officials, but has primarily been conducted by nationalist, right-wing organizations and news sites — has sought revenge on McMaster for his ousting of four conservatives from Trump’s national security council, as well as for his opposition to simply voiding President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal without a backup plan. The #FireMcMaster campaign has proliferated on social media, too, including among Russian Twitter bots.

While Bossert acknowledged that white supremacy is a problem in the country, he quickly shifted to talking about the greater threat of “a global jihadi terrorist problem.” This is a common tactic used by the Trump administration, which considered refocusing the government‘s Countering Violent Extremism program on Islamist groups, not white supremacists, and has proposed slashing funding for the program. A recent study found that between 2008 and 2016, the number of designated terrorist attacks on U.S. soil carried out by right-wing extremist groups, including white supremacists, outnumbered those carried out by Islamists by 2 to 1.

James Alex Fields Jr., left, in a crowd of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Hours later, the police say, he killed a 32-year-old woman and injured 19 other people by driving a car into a line of other cars.

Head of Republicans Abroad in Israel Marc Zell says counterprotesters at white supremacist rally represent the ‚ugly face of progressivism‘ in the U.S.

The South has been at odds with the rest of the nation for generations over issues including education, race, politics, shared history and religion, Thompson said in a telephone interview, and some things just don’t change.

“It’s not that just the rest of the country would be better off without them,” he said. “It’s that everyone would be better off without them, both sides.”

He added that Iran has also not given up its aspirations to become a nuclear threshold state and that the nuclear agreement between the two powers and Iran only reinforces this trend and is strengthening Iranian aggression in the region, according to a statement from the Prime Minister‘s office.

„Ich habe keine Aufklärungsdaten gesehen, die darauf hindeuten würden, dass wir am Rande eines Atomkriegs stehen“, sagte Pompeo in einem Interview mit dem TV-Sender Fox News.

“I am quite confident that (North Korean leader Kim Jong Un) will continue to try to develop his missile program, so it wouldn’t surprise me if there was another missile test,“ U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo said on „Fox News Sunday.“

Der dänische U-Boot-Bauer Peter Madsen wird verdächtigt, die schwedische Journalistin Kim Wall getötet zu haben.
Sie soll zumindest zeitweise auf Madsens U-Boot gewesen sein, das am Freitag vor der dänischen Küste sank. Madsen konnte gerettet werden, die Journalistin wird vermisst.

Die dänische Polizei hat das gesunkene U-Boot des Tüftlers Peter Madsen gehoben – und niemanden an Bord gefunden. Der 46-Jährige steht unter Verdacht, eine mitreisende Journalistin getötet zu haben.

There have been at least 24 deaths in election-related unrest, a rights group said on Saturday. But by Sunday the violence appeared to have largely abated, to the relief of Kenyans who feared a repeat of the violence that followed 2007‘s disputed election.
Around 1,200 people were killed then and 600,000 displaced after Odinga called for political protests that sparked ethnic violence.

A survey conducted by one of the local dailies shows that majority of Kenyans wants National Super Alliance (NASA) presidential loser, Raila Odinga, to retire in politics and stop claiming that he beat President Uhuru Kenyatta in the just concluded poll.

According to the poll 62 percent of Kenyans wants Raila Odinga to go to Bondo and also dismissed his allegations that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) systems were hacked in favour of President Kenyatta.

(7.8.2017) Odinga has seemed ambivalent about his purported role in the revolt, a sensitive subject in Kenya 35 years later. People are concerned that the current election might turn violent, echoing deadly unrest that erupted after the 2007 election, and the 1982 coup attempt is another troubling example of how a country known for its relative stability in a sometimes turbulent region can unravel.

„A lot of people do not want to speak openly about it,“ said Gitobu Imanyara, a lawyer who represented accused coup plotters. „It doesn‘t receive sufficient scrutiny, even from political historians.“

In Nairobi und im Westen des Landes demonstrierten derweil Unterstützer der Opposition, sie orten Wahlmanipulation. Bei einem ersten Gewaltausbruch gab es mehrere Tote, Menschenrechtler sprechen von über 20.

2010 war der damalige nigerianische Präsident Umaru Musa Yar’Adua an einer Nierenerkrankung gestorben, über die die Öffentlichkeit zuvor nicht unterrichtet worden war. Die langwierige Behandlung Yar’Aduas im Ausland führte in Nigeria zu großer politischer Unsicherheit. Nach seinem Tod übernahm der damalige Stellvertreter Goodluck Jonathan das Amt.