European Commission Pres. Jean-Claude Juncker negotiated
tariffs with US Pres. Donald Trump
When Pres. Donald Trump asked N.A.T.O. leaders in Europe to bear a fairer share of the cost of America providing them military protection, why did they balk so? Why was it reported so negatively? Why did American mainstream-media cast such a negative spin on Pres. Trump's attempts to renegotiate international tariff's towards America's favor?
Jean Patrick Grumberg in Los Angeles
French-expatriate critic, Jean Patrick Grumberg, interprets Europe's love-hate relationship with America which began long-before the Trump administration. He believes that liberal news outlets won't report it accurately, despite it being in Americans' best interest. And the liberal bias is so great in Europe (where Associated Press and Reuters base their European reportage to America) that they won't fairly report issues related to Iran's interest in Islamic terror via immigrants. While Mr. Trump pursues denuclearization via regime-change in Iran, Mr. Grumberg discusses European politicians' revealed and secret financial motivations, over the safety of the planet.
Unlike his 21st-century counterparts Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, Picquart was neither a disaffected nor a junior figure in the organization he was to expose. On the contrary: In October 1894 he was a brilliant, rising army officer. One of his steppingstones to advancement had been a professorship at the École Supérieure de Guerre, and one of the officer-cadets he had taught there was a Jewish artillery captain, Alfred Dreyfus. KINTBURY, England — Georges Picquart died 100 years ago this Saturday. To which the response from most quarters is likely to be “Georges who?” Even in his native France, his centenary is passing largely unremarked. Yet in the days of Queen Victoria and Theodore Roosevelt, Picquart was a figure of global controversy, revered and reviled in equal measure as the world’s most famous whistle-blower.
Picquart, like many of his contemporaries, was casually anti-Semitic. It came as no surprise to him when Dreyfus — the only Jew on the general staff — was suspected of passing secret intelligence to the Germans. It was Picquart who provided a sample of Dreyfus’s handwriting to the investigators. And when expert analysis seemed to confirm Dreyfus’s guilt, it was Picquart who met his unsuspecting former pupil in the Ministry of War so he could be quietly bundled off to prison.
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Mark Long Robert Harris is the author of a forthcoming novel about Georges Picquart, “An Officer and a Spy.” Read original article.
