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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Bill Jones |Richard Freeman |Michael Billington |Dennis Small
March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—A lengthy Wall Street Journal article on March 29th entitled “Elon’s Mission To Take Over NASA—and Mars,” documents the attempt by the SpaceX billionaire to reorient NASA from its present Artemis mission to the Moon and toward a manned mission to Mars.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Richard Freeman |Michael Billington |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned March 28, after he was confronted with a resign or be fired ultimatum. Marks is one of the key officials who helped push through Operation Warp Speed, the program that helped develop the vaccine to fight COVID-19, produced by Pfizer and Biontech, during the first Trump administration.
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3 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Richard Freeman |Michael Billington |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 30, 2025 (EIRNS)—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced 10,000 firings at the Department of HSS, particularly targeting development of vaccines for infectious diseases, and fundamental scientific research. The cuts include 2,400 people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and 1,200 people at the National Institutes of Health, which is a primary funder of disease research across the United States.
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3 weeks ago | 
alexkrainer.substack.com | Alex Krainer |Dennis Small
Back in 2022, Ukraine’s President Zelensky posed for a photo shoot wearing an olive green t-shirt emblazoned with a bizarre design that read, “Come to the dark side … Dominate or Die.” At the time, I wondered who thought it appropriate to even come up with such slogans, let alone have Ukraine’s president wear it on his chest. The photoshoot was arranged by a British PR team. At the time, a short documentary report about this was published in social media (here’s a YouTube clip).
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Dennis Small |Jason Ross |Carl Osgood |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—There is a growing drumbeat around Washington urging the Trump administration to use the recent U.S. air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen as a prelude and practice run for delivering a knock-out punch to Iran next.
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Dennis Small |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Financial Times reported rather gleefully that “’Signalgate’ will send shockwaves through the US security apparatus and foreign allies.” It’s not just “the sheer amateurism of the Trump White House,” they wrote. The deeper issue is that “the breach will raise disquiet across the US security and military apparatus about the risks of such behavior to personnel.
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4 weeks ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |Dennis Small |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 26, 2025 (EIRNS)— The Atlantic published the entire text of the Signal message thread among top U.S. national security officials today, following earlier claims made by some of those officials, and President Trump himself, that no classified information was discussed in that thread. The thread, for reasons still not fully explained, included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—Reuters reports that Iran Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said today that Iran will consider both the “opportunities” as well as the threats in the letter from U.S. President Donald Trump that urged it to reach a new nuclear deal. Iran will soon respond to the letter.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |David Shavin |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been detained on charges of corruption and alleged terror links, with his party calling it a “coup.” RT reported on March 19: “The arrest comes just before the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was set to nominate him to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the 2028 election.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | David Shavin |Michael Billington |Dennis Small |Carl Osgood
March 20, 2025 (EIRNS)—There is a “great rapport” between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy. In yesterday’s appearance on Bloomberg TV, Witkoff described the March 18 phone call between the two Presidents as “epic” and “transformational....
