facilities, Pompeo claimed the JCPOA failed to “curtail Iranian adventurism” and “malignant behavior.” He also claimed Iran was destabilizing the region by arming Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen, while adding the nonsensical allegation that these movements have “worked alongside Al Qaeda.”

The sheer hypocrisy of Pompeo’s claims is breathtaking. Over the past 50 years the US has played an unparalleled role in destabilizing the Middle East, including through the CIA’s role in creating Al Qaeda in the 1980s as part of the fight to overthrow the Soviet-backed government in Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the arming of Islamist extremist forces in Libya to overthrow Gaddafi and its continued support for these same forces in the ongoing conflict in Syria.

His claim that Iran and itsA video of a group of mostly white teen boys taunting a Native American man during the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, DC went viral Saturday, prompting widespread criticism of the youths.

The images show a throng of boys, many wearing Make America Great Again hats, surrounding the man as he beat a drum and sang a song. One boy is also seen standing and smirking close to the man.

He was identified by The Washington Post as 64-year-old Nathan Phillips, an indigenous activist who fought in the Vietnam War.

He told the paper that he felt threatened by the teens.

“It was getting ugly, and I was thinking: ‘I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation and finish my song at the Lincoln Memorial,’” Phillips said. “I started