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US says Syria crisis needs political solution, Assad doesn’t have to go first

Press TV – July 21, 2017 US President Donald Trump’s homeland security and counterterrorism adviser says the US is seeking a political resolution to the conflict in Syria and won’t insist on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s immediate ouster. Tom Bossert said Thursday there needs to be a political outcome in Syria, not a military-imposed one […]

End of CIA Training Program Removes Roadblock to Real Peace in Syria

Sputnik – 21.07.2017 President Donald Trump’s decision to end CIA training for US-backed rebel groups in Syria opens the way for peace at last and humanitarian relief for the suffering people of that country, analysts told Sputnik. The move was widely reported in the US media on Wednesday with no denials and has been universally […]

‘Maintain public confidence’: Obama’s plan to defend from election cyberattacks

RT | July 20, 2017 The Obama administration quietly set up an interagency task force to deal with possible physical and cyber disruptions of the 2016 US presidential election, but believed most cyber incidents would be “unsubstantiated or inconsequential.” Time magazine, which obtained and published the 15-page Concept of Operations document on Thursday, wrote that […]

Porkins Policy Radio episode 101 The Russians Are Coming with JP Sottile and Robbie Martin

In the first hour I am joined by JP Sottile of News Vandal for an in-depth conversation on the growing scandal involving Donald Trump Jr. We begin by touching on the latest person to have been in the infamous meeting, Ike Kaveladze, and his connection to a 2000 Congressional investigation into Russian money laundering operations. JP and I go beyond the headlines and try to decipher what this meeting might have actually been about. We offer up a more straight forward narrative that this was a meeting about corruption and payoffs.