This is the profile of #JohnBolton from @Right_Web, a site which tracks the activities of a vast array of right wing and militaristic figures and organizations: "long track record of aggressive promotion of military action and disdain for diplomacy"http://lobelog.com/john-bolton-the-essential-profile/ …
.@nytimes editorial: "There are few people more likely than Mr. Bolton is to lead the country into war. His selection is a decision that is as alarming as any Mr. Trump has made so far."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/opinion/john-bolton-trump-national-security-adviser.html?smid=tw-share …
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@AllMattNYT:"The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump’s incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop psychological profiles of voters"https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/us/politics/bolton-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-data.html …Show this thread -
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@shahedghoreishi: “Putting Pompeo and Bolton in such major positions of power suggests that Trump and his gang of evil are preparing for the very conflicts that he promised to avoid.”https://lobelog.com/trumps-new-war-cabinet/ …Show this thread -
Interview with Danny Gillerman, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, reveals how John Bolton undermined the very government he ostensibly represented in order to defend the Israeli governmenthttps://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/243576 …
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@EliClifton and@LobeLog: “Trump and the GOP’s biggest donor may now have installed their man in what is perhaps the most powerful foreign-policy position in the U.S. government”, dramatically rising the likelihood of war of in the Middle Easthttp://lobelog.com/trumps-choice-of-bolton-satisfies-his-biggest-donor/ …Show this thread -
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@joshuakeating: “this month’s appointments suggest we haven’t even begun to reckon with what happened during [the past 15] years.” http://amp.slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/john-bolton-and-gina-haspel-are-the-consequences-of-our-failure-to-reckon-with-the-bush-years.html?__twitter_impression=true …pic.twitter.com/V5deqBU9Bn
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@jrezaian: “Bolton’s hawkish views on Iran mirror those of Israel, Saudi Arabia and one of his key ideological partners, the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK)”, “loathed by most Iranians, mainly for the traitorous act”, “a deranged cult” https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/03/24/john-bolton-wants-regime-change-in-iran-and-so-does-the-cult-that-paid-him/ …pic.twitter.com/gFriO6KVIy
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This 2015 article by
@JNaureckas is a reminder of the role of US mainstream media in enabling and normalizing advocacy for wars of aggression as just any other policy debate by providing a platform to people like John Boltonhttps://fair.org/home/leading-papers-incite-supreme-international-crime/ …Show this thread -
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@PhilWeiss: Bolton’s “solution to the Israel Palestine conflict [...] is for pieces of the West Bank to be deeded to Jordan and Gaza to be deeded to Egypt, on the theory that Palestine is “bits and pieces” of the former Ottoman Empire”http://mondoweiss.net/2018/03/bolton-pieces-palestine/ …Show this thread -
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Excellent interview with
@raymcgovernhttps://twitter.com/theintercept/status/979021311409352704?s=21 …Show this thread -
Informative interview with
@PhyllisBennis on how John Bolton has systematically worked to push a right-wing Israeli agenda to the detriment of US interest and policy — even when he worked in the US government http://imemc.org/article/bolton-acted-against-us-interests-to-push-israels-agenda-in-lebanon/ …Show this thread -
"From 2013 until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming “jihadist takeover” of Europe leading to a “Great White Death.”https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/john-bolton-chaired-anti-muslim-think-tank-n868171 …
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