position:chief strategist

  • WikiLeaks deleted a tweet linking to the full ’Fire & Fury’ text - Business Insider
    http://uk.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-deleted-tweet-fire-and-fury-text-trump-russia-2018-1?r
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    The radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks posted, and then quickly deleted, a tweet linking to the full text of “Fire & Fury: Inside the Trump White House” on Sunday.

    Later on Sunday, WikiLeaks reposted the link to what it said was the “full text” of the book.

    “Fire & Fury,” by author Michael Wolff, paints President Donald Trump and his administration in an unflattering light and features several explosive quotes from the former White House chief strategist, Steve Bannon.

    Among other things, Bannon called Trump’s daughter Ivanka “dumb as a brick,” and he also said Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.”

    After Trump and his allies went on a scorched-earth offensive against Bannon, Wolff, and the book, Bannon issued a lengthy apology on Sunday, walking back many of his comments and reaffirming his “unwavering” support for Trump.

    https://metager.de/meta/meta.ger3?focus=web&encoding=utf8&lang=all&eingabe=%22Fire_and_Fury_-_Michae

    #USA #politique #Trump

  • Trump on Saudi Leadership Shake-up: “We’ve Put Our Man on Top!”
    https://theintercept.com/2018/01/04/trump-saudi-arabia-fire-and-fury-michael-wolff

    When Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman effectively launched a coup and unseated his political rival in June, President Donald Trump took private credit. “We’ve put our man on top!” Trump told his friends, writes Michael Wolff in his forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had ousted his nephew Mohammad bin Nayef as crown prince and replaced him with his then-31-year-old son, bin Salman, shaking up the line of succession and turning on decades of custom within the royal family. The move was announced in the dead of night and was just another step in bin Salman’s rise to power in the kingdom in recent years. The king also removed bin Nayef, once a powerful figure in the country’s security apparatus, from his post as interior minister.

    Just a month earlier, Trump had visited Saudi Arabia on his first overseas trip, meeting with leaders from across the Middle East and signing a $110 billion aspirational arms deal with the kingdom’s leaders. When bin Salman was named crown prince, Trump called and congratulated him on his “recent elevation.”

    Wolff describes Trump’s Saudi trip as a “get-out-of-Dodge godsend,” as it was an escape from Washington shortly after the president fired FBI Director James Comey. “There couldn’t have been a better time to be making headlines far from Washington. A road trip could transform everything.”

    The book is based on 18 months of interviews and access to Trump and his senior staff. But Wolff has a history of being an unreliable narrator, and questions have already been raised about the veracity of his claims. Trump, for his part, is outraged by the book, which contains damning passages about him and his family, attributed to the president’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon. The president’s lawyer has demanded that Wolff and his publisher cease and desist publication of the book.

    #arabie_saoudite

    • http://french.almanar.com.lb/726801
      Confidence de Trump : « Je suis derrière le putsch en Arabie Saoudite ! »

      Ces révélations viennent confirmer la thèse de coup d’Etat mené, en juin dernier, par le fils du roi Salman contre le prince héritier légitime, à savoir Mohammed Ben Nayef, avec le soutien de Donald Trump, qui a fait, durant la même semaine, son premier voyage en Arabie Saoudite pour présider un sommet avec les chefs d’Etat d’une quarantaine de pays musulmans. Une thèse que réfute Riyad puisque, selon la version officielle, cette ascension de Mohammed Ben Salman aurait obtenu l’approbation de tous les membres de la famille régnante.

      Aussi, l’implication du gendre de Trump, Jared Kushner, déjà évoquée par plusieurs sources, dans le rapprochement entre l’Arabie Saoudite et Israël, notamment, est ici indirectement confirmée.

      Très lié à Mohammed Ben Salman, Kushner serait à l’origine de toutes les démarches d’« ouverture » initiées par Riyad envers ‘Israël’ et un durcissement envers l’Iran et ses alliés. Il est également la cheville ouvrière de la décision bouleversante annoncée par Trump, le 6 décembre dernier, reconnaissant AlQuds capitale d’ « Israël ».

  • Donald Trump’s “America First” budget would make deep cuts to domestic programmes

    STEPHEN BANNON, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, famously promised the “deconstruction of the administrative state”. On March 16th, the Trump administration took its first step toward achieving Mr Bannon’s vision by proposing a budget that makes steep cuts to domestic programmes.


    http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-11?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fed%2Fdonaldtrumpsamericafirstbud
    #budget #dépenses #Trump #USA #Etats-Unis #visualiastion

  • Daily chart: Donald Trump’s “America First” budget would make deep cuts to domestic programmes | The Economist

    http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/03/daily-chart-11

    LA visualisation of Th Economist est assez intéressante

    STEPHEN BANNON, President Donald Trump’s chief strategist, famously promised the “deconstruction of the administrative state”. On March 16th, the Trump administration took its first step toward achieving Mr Bannon’s vision by proposing a budget that makes steep cuts to domestic programmes.

    Not all departments would suffer. Mr Trump’s budget proposal, which covers $1.1trn of discretionary spending for the 2018 fiscal year, requests an additional $52bn for the Department of Defence and $2.8bn for the Department of Homeland Security. The majority of this additional spending would go towards what the administration calls “urgent warfighting readiness needs” including fighter jets, drones, missiles and weapons systems. At least $2.6bn would be spent on the construction of a wall on the southern border, a project which could eventually cost as much as $22bn. An additional $1.5bn would go towards the expanded detention, transport and removal of illegal immigrants.

    #états-unis #budget #trump #militarisation

  • Donald Trump’s chief strategist keeps referring to this French novel ’revered by white supremacists’ | indy100

    https://www.indy100.com/article/donald-trump-steve-bannon-french-novel-racism-immigration-camp-of-the-saint

    Tiens, Jean Raspail et son bouquin qui raconte le débarquement de réfugiés sur la côte méditerranéenne à l’air d’petre populaire chez les néonazis américains.

    Donald Trump appointed former chairman of “alt-right’ publication Breitbart News as his chief strategist.

    Steve Bannon’s stance on immigration has been the subject of intense criticism, and he was widely believed to have been the “key architect” of the failed Muslim ban.

    Democrat Nancy Pelosi went so far as to call him a “white supremacist”.

    On several occasions, Bannon alluded to the immigration situation by calling it a “Camp of the Saints-type invasion”.

    He articulated the sentiment multiple times in 2015 and 2016.

    In fact, Breitbart have also written about it on several occasions.

    What is he talking about?

    The Camp of the Saints was a book written in 1973 by French novelist Jean Raspail.

    It is also glaringly, painfully racist.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center in 2001 described the novel as:

    #trump #néonazis

  • Steve Bannon: Donald Trump’s chief strategist has a grand vision for remaking America — Quartz
    https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants
    https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/bannon-ap-evan-vucci.jpg?quality=80&strip=all&w=1600

    If there is a political vision underlying Trumpism, however, the person to ask is not Trump. It’s his éminence grise, Stephen K. Bannon, the chief strategist of the Trump administration.

    #idéologie #suprémacie_blanche #valeurs_chrétiennes #nationalisme #États-Unis #Trump

  • Here’s Why It’s Fair—and Necessary—to Call Trump’s Chief Strategist a White Nationalist Champion

    After Donald #Trump announced he was appointing #Stephen_Bannon to a top job in the White House as chief strategist, I sent out a tweet referring to a Mother Jones story that reported on how Bannon, when he was head of Breitbart News, the far-right conservative site, provided a haven for white nationalists. In response, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser and conspiracy theory advocate (he wrote a book claiming Lyndon B. Johnson killed John F. Kennedy), tweeted at me: “’White Nationalist’ my ass. Stop with the childish name calling….we don’t call you a communist.”


    http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/11/why-its-fair-and-necessary-call-trumps-chief-strategist-stephen-bannon-
    #nationalisme #nationalisme_blanc #racisme #xénophobie #extrême_droite #extrême-droite

    • Donald Trump, Stephen Bannon and the Coming Crisis in American National Life

      During the 1990s, two amateur historians, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss, developed a new theory of American history in two books, Generations: the History of America’s Future (1991), and The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy (1997). They identified an 80-year cycle in American history, punctuated by great crises that destroyed an old order and created a new one.
      Though their theory is not widely taught in colleges or discussed in the media, Strauss and Howe may well play a major role in Donald Trump’s administration. Stephen Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News who has been appointed Trump’s chief strategist in the White House, is very familiar with Strauss and Howe’s theory of crisis, and has been thinking about how to use it to achieve particular goals for quite a while. I know this because Bannon interviewed both Neil Howe and myself in 2009 while he was making a documentary film about the ongoing financial crisis. The film, called Generation Zero, discussed those ideas in some detail.

      http://time.com/4575780/stephen-bannon-fourth-turning/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter

  • Why Steve Bannon likes nationalist Israel but dislikes internationalist American Jews -
    Trumpian right discovers what Jews have known for a century: That Zionism is built, in part, on the rejection of Diaspora Jewish identity.

    Peter Beinart Nov 23, 2016
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.754805

    I don’t know if Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s chief strategist, is anti-Semitic. I can’t see inside his soul. What I do know is this: Citing his support for Israel doesn’t exonerate him of the charge. You can believe that Jews are a malevolent force in the United States and still love the Jewish state. It’s easy.
    It’s easy because for Bannon, and many on the Trumpian right, the crucial political divide in today’s world is between internationalists (who they call “globalists”) and nationalists. Internationalists believe in universal principles like human rights, international law and free trade. They see their countries less as ends in and of themselves than as means for achieving these broader principles.
    That’s why they support foreign aid and humanitarian wars even when they don’t serve any direct national interest. It’s why they support admitting refugees even if vetting and settling them poses a challenge. It’s why they support free trade, which they believe enhances global prosperity and peace, even if it dislocates people at home.
    Not all internationalists believe in all the same principles. Left-wing internationalists like Bernie Sanders support foreign aid and refugee resettlement but not humanitarian intervention and free trade. For right-wing internationalists like Bill Kristol, it’s closer to the reverse. But while they fight about which principles the United States should champion, left and right internationalists agree that the United States is a vehicle for causes greater than itself. They see America as not merely a nation but an idea.
    Bannon and Trump reject that. They believe that when American elites pursue their universalist agendas, ordinary Americans get screwed. American kids die in military interventions. American workers lose their jobs as the result of trade deals. Americans lose their lives because refugees commit terrorism. Nationalists like Bannon and Trump think that when internationalists appeal to moral principle, they’re utterly phony. It’s a cover for their own interests. As economic elites, they benefit from freer trade and immigration. It’s not their kids who fight the nation’s wars.

  • Suddenly it’s okay to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic
    When friendship for Israel is judged solely on the basis of support for the occupation, Israel has no friends other than racists and nationalists.

    Gideon Levy Nov 20, 2016
    read more: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.754073

    All of a sudden it’s not so terrible to be anti-Semitic. Suddenly it’s excusable as long as you hate Muslims and Arabs and “love Israel.” The Jewish and Israeli right has issued a sweeping amnesty to anti-Semitic lovers of Israel – yes, there is such a thing, and they’re en route to taking power in the United States.
    So now we know: Not just pornography but also anti-Semitism is a matter of geography and price. Right-wing American anti-Semites are no longer considered anti-Semites.
    The definition has been updated: From now on, anti-Semites are only found on the left. Roger Waters, a courageous man of conscience without stain, is an anti-Semite. Steve Bannon, a declared racist and closet anti-Semite who has been appointed chief strategist in the Trump White House, is a friend of Israel.
    Jewish and Israeli activists who left no stone unturned in their effort to discover signs of anti-Semitism, who viewed every parking ticket for an American Jew as an act of hate, who moved heaven and earth every time a Jew was robbed or a Jewish gravestone was cracked, are now whitewashing an anti-Semite. Suddenly they’re not convinced we’re talking about that particular disease.
    Alan Dershowitz, one of the biggest propagandists in this field, has already come out in defense of the racist Bannon. In a Haaretz piece late last week, Dershowitz wrote that the man whose wife said he didn’t want their children to go to school with Jews isn’t anti-Semitic. “The claim was simply made by his former wife in a judicial proceeding, thus giving it no special weight,” Dershowitz wrote, with specious logic.
    After all, Dershowitz’s former research assistant, an Orthodox Jew who later worked with Bannon, assured him that he had seen no signs of anti-Semitism in Bannon. And suddenly that’s enough for Dershowitz. Suddenly it’s possible to separate racism from anti-Semitism.

  • Suddenly it’s okay to be pro-Israel and anti-Semitic
    When friendship for Israel is judged solely on the basis of support for the occupation, Israel has no friends other than racists and nationalists.
    By Gideon Levy | Nov. 20, 2016 | 4:25 AM
    http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.754073

    All of a sudden it’s not so terrible to be anti-Semitic. Suddenly it’s excusable as long as you hate Muslims and Arabs and “love Israel.” The Jewish and Israeli right has issued a sweeping amnesty to anti-Semitic lovers of Israel – yes, there is such a thing, and they’re en route to taking power in the United States.

    So now we know: Not just pornography but also anti-Semitism is a matter of geography and price. Right-wing American anti-Semites are no longer considered anti-Semites.

    The definition has been updated: From now on, anti-Semites are only found on the left. Roger Waters, a courageous man of conscience without stain, is an anti-Semite. Steve Bannon, a declared racist and closet anti-Semite who has been appointed chief strategist in the Trump White House, is a friend of Israel.

    Jewish and Israeli activists who left no stone unturned in their effort to discover signs of anti-Semitism, who viewed every parking ticket for an American Jew as an act of hate, who moved heaven and earth every time a Jew was robbed or a Jewish gravestone was cracked, are now whitewashing an anti-Semite. Suddenly they’re not convinced we’re talking about that particular disease.

    Alan Dershowitz, one of the biggest propagandists in this field, has already come out in defense of the racist Bannon. In a Haaretz piece late last week, Dershowitz wrote that the man whose wife said he didn’t want their children to go to school with Jews isn’t anti-Semitic. “The claim was simply made by his former wife in a judicial proceeding, thus giving it no special weight,” Dershowitz wrote, with specious logic.

    After all, Dershowitz’s former research assistant, an Orthodox Jew who later worked with Bannon, assured him that he had seen no signs of anti-Semitism in Bannon. And suddenly that’s enough for Dershowitz. Suddenly it’s possible to separate racism from anti-Semitism.

    Israel’s ambassador in Washington, Ron Dermer, naturally hastened to join the party. Over the weekend, he said he expects to work with Bannon. And boy, does he expect to work with that racist. After all, they’ll agree about everything: that there’s no Palestinian people, that there’s no occupation, that the settlement of Yitzhar should remain forever, that leftists are traitors.

    For Dermer – ambassador of the illegal outpost of Amona, friend of the Tea Party and boycotter of J Street; a man who if the bilateral relationship had been normal would have been declared persona non grata by the United States – the new appointments are like the dawn of a new day.

    He’ll feel so at home with Frank Gaffney, another hater of Muslims who’s likely to receive a senior appointment in the new administration; he’ll be so happy working with Bannon. And Mike Huckabee is exactly his cup of tea. Dermer, after all, was given the Freedom Flame Award by the Center for Security Policy, a hate group that proudly flies the flag of Islamophobia.

    These racists and their ilk are Israel’s best friends in the United States. They’re joined by the racists of the European right. If you discount the guilt feelings over the Holocaust, they’re the only friends Israel has left. When friendship for Israel is judged solely on the basis of support for the occupation, Israel has no friends other than racists and nationalists. That ought to have aroused great shame here: Tell us who your friends are and we’ll tell you who you are.

    These racists love Israel because it’s carrying out their dreams: to oppress Arabs, to abuse Muslims, to dispossess them, expel them, kill them, demolish their houses, trample their honor. This bunch of trash would so dearly love to behave as we do.

    But for now this is only possible in Israel, so it’s the light unto the nations in this field. What happened to the days when Jews in South Africa went to prison with Nelson Mandela? Nowadays Jewish activists in America support the new rulers – the racists and anti-Semites.

    The Palestinian-American author Susan Abulhawa wrote on Facebook over the weekend: Palestinians are calling white nationalist Bannon an anti-Semite, while AIPAC and Dershowitz think he’s not such a bad guy. What more proof do you need that Zionism is a face of white supremacy, and ultimately antithetical to Judaism?

    Last summer, Abulhawa was deported via the Allenby Bridge. And she’s right. The United States and Israel now share the same values – and woe to that sense of shame.

  • Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights | The Nation
    https://www.thenation.com/article/jeff-sessions-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-is-a-fierce-opponent-of-ci

    Jeff Sessions, Trump’s Pick for Attorney General, Is a Fierce Opponent of Civil Rights

    He wrongly prosecuted black activists for voter fraud, was blocked from a judgeship because of racist statements, and opposed the Voting Rights Act.

    Trump attorney general pick Jeff Sessions

    Trump attorney general pick Jeff Sessions speaks to media at Trump Tower in New York on November 17, 2016. (AP Photo / Carolyn Kaster)

    Donald Trump has chosen a white nationalist as his chief strategist and a white-nationalist sympathizer as his pick for Attorney General. Like the Confederate general he is named after, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III has long been a leading voice for the Old South and the conservative white backlash vote Trump courted throughout his campaign. Sessions, as a US senator from Alabama, has been the fiercest opponent in the Senate of immigration reform, a centerpiece of Trump’s agenda, and has a long history of opposition to civil rights, dating back to his days as a US Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s.

    #trump #catastrophe_américaine (essai de nouveau tag) #états-unis

  • RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China - World Socialist Web Site
    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/08/05/pers-a05.html

    RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China
    5 August 2016

    A new study by the RAND Corporation titled “War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable” is just the latest think tank paper devoted to assessing a US war against China. The study, commissioned by the US Army, provides further evidence that a war with China is being planned and prepared in the upper echelons of the American military-intelligence apparatus.

    That the paper emerges from the RAND Corporation has a particular and sinister significance. Throughout the Cold War, RAND was the premier think tank for “thinking the unthinkable”—a phrase made notorious by RAND’s chief strategist in the 1950s, Herman Kahn. Kahn devoted his macabre book On Thermonuclear War to elaborating a strategy for a “winnable” nuclear war against the Soviet Union.

    #chin #états-unis #guerre

  • RAND Corporation lays out scenarios for US war with China - World Socialist Web Site

    http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/08/05/pers-a05.html

    Maintenant, c’est la Rand corp. ça vaut ce que ça vaut, mais l’approche est pas inintéressante. A prendre toutefois avec des pincettes.

    A new study by the RAND Corporation titled “War with China: Thinking Through the Unthinkable” is just the latest think tank paper devoted to assessing a US war against China. The study, commissioned by the US Army, provides further evidence that a war with China is being planned and prepared in the upper echelons of the American military-intelligence apparatus.

    That the paper emerges from the RAND Corporation has a particular and sinister significance. Throughout the Cold War, RAND was the premier think tank for “thinking the unthinkable”—a phrase made notorious by RAND’s chief strategist in the 1950s, Herman Kahn. Kahn devoted his macabre book On Thermonuclear War to elaborating a strategy for a “winnable” nuclear war against the Soviet Union.