Rachel Maddow, the star MSNBC anchor who is obsessed with the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory, found the perfect 'expert' to ask about orders Vladimir Putin might give to Donald Trump: Victoria 'F**k the EU' Nuland.

Maddow's disdain for the incumbent US president, and her propensity to speculate that Trump may be a Kremlin puppet bent on destroying the Western world to please Russian President Putin, is well-documented. In Thursday's episode of her show, the MSNBC anchor bemoaned Trump's threats to withdraw from NATO and how his abrasive manners were offensive to other allies. No mention was made of Trump berating Germany over energy cooperation with Russia, though.

Then she interviewed a guest about Trump's upcoming meeting with Putin in Helsinki, Finland, asking in a most peculiar manner what the Russian leader may want from it.

In times of sweeping political correctness, bullies attacking those who question the holy liberal trinity of diversity, inclusivity and equality, and a media which toes the party line while defaming dissenters, it's easy to see why more and more people are calling the current progressive groupthink "fascist". But if you look at history, as Jonah Goldberg did in his book, Liberal Fascism, you realize that this is kind of missing the point: today's left isn't merely using fascist tactics. No, fascism is, and always has been, a progressive, leftist project. What we today call conservatism has little to do with it - in fact, it's almost its exact opposite.

To understand this, we first need to realize that fascism is a revolutionary movement, in the tradition of the French Revolution. As Goldberg puts it,

...the French Revolution was the first totalitarian revolution, the mother of modern totalitarianism, and the spiritual model for the Italian Fascist, German Nazi, and Russian Communist revolutions. A nationalist-populist uprising, it was led and manipulated by an intellectual vanguard determined to replace Christianity with a political religion that glorified "the people," anointed the revolutionary vanguard as their priests, and abridged the rights of individuals.

Revolution isn't exactly a conservative talking point, now is it? Or consider an early program of Mussolini, "the father of fascism": some of the things these early fascists wanted included a lowering of the minimum voting age, the end of the draft, the repeal of titles of nobility, a minimum wage, building "rigidly secular" schools for the proletariat, a large progressive tax system... in other words, a classically leftist platform. Fascism was, in a sense, a Bolshevik revolution minus internationalism. Consequently, many American progressives at the time were full of praise for Mussolini. Hitler was similarly anti-capitalist and anti-conservative. Writes Goldberg:

The Nazis rose to power exploiting anticapitalist rhetoric they indisputably believed. Even if Hitler was the nihilistic cipher many portray him as, it is impossible to deny the sincerity of the Nazi rank and file who saw themselves as mounting a revolutionary assault on the forces of capitalism. Moreover, Nazism also emphasized many of the themes of later New Lefts in other places and times: the primacy of race, the rejection of rationalism, an emphasis on the organic and holistic- including environmentalism, health food, and exercise- and, most of all, the need to "transcend" notions of class.

Goldberg leaves no doubt that fascism - both Mussolini's classical fascism and Hitler's Nazism - but also communism as fascism's equally-evil-twin - is in essence collectivist, anti-capitalist, anti-religion (except that it can use religion sometimes to further its aims), wants to control everything in the name of welfare, progress and for the "good of the people", uses science as a sort of priestly class to provide justification for the leaders of "the movement", hates the individual and always seeks to advance the collective... yep, exactly the Orwellian nightmare we see today, mostly on the left.

Donald Trump, who stirred tension in the UK by giving a critical interview to a tabloid newspaper about Prime Minister Theresa May, said he ranked the relationship between the two nations as 'highest level of special'.

Standing next to May during a joint media conference, Trump repeatedly stressed his "tremendous respect" to his host and made assurances that the UK and the US were especially close under his administration.

"I would say I would give our relationship in terms of grade the highest level of special," Trump said. "Now, after two days with your prime minister, I would say the highest level of special. "Am I allowed to go higher than that?" he added, turning to May.

Trump said the British were "very special people" and their country was "very special", and he valued the relationship because his mother was born in Scotland, among other things.

Commenting on what he told The Sun about May rejecting his suggestions on how to handle Brexit, Trump said May probably "found it too brutal".

The mercurial veteran GOP political operative, Roger Stone, has acknowledged that he is the unnamed Trump campaign regular who corresponded with an alleged Russian hacker, as described in a new indictment against a dozen Russians returned Friday by a federal grand jury.

The indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller targets 12 Russian intelligence officers for engaging in a sustained effort to hack Democrats and aides to Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign. All 12 defendants are members of Russia's intelligence service, according to the court filing.

The reference to a "U.S. person" who "was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump" describes emails exchanged with alleged conspirators, who were posing as the mysterious hacker Guccifer 2.0. In the brief exchange, the hacker told the Trump ally: "Thank u for writing back...do u find anyt[h]ing in the docs i posted?'"

The announced meeting between Trump and Putin has already produced a good result by revealing the hypocrisy of the media and politicians. The meeting has been branded as the greatest danger to humanity, according to the Western globalist elite, because of the danger that "peace could break out between Russia and the United States".
Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. The following so stretches credulity that sources will have to be cited and an exact quotations given to be believed.

A top decision maker in Syria has said "the US has sent a message to the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad that expresses the US establishment's wishes. Under these wishes there is an Israeli goal compatible with Donald Trump's objective to pull out its own forces from Syria with as little damage as possible. Trump would like to avoid the same fate that hit the US forces during Georges Bush's era where thousands of US soldiers were killed in action".

According to the source involved in overseeing the entire military operation for the last years of war in Syria, "President Assad was very clear in his answer to the US establishment. Syria - said Assad - is determined to liberate the entire Syrian territory regardless of the consequences. There is of course a price to be paid to obtain the liberation of north Syria which is occupied by both the US and Turkey, neither of whom were invited by the Syrian government: this price is worth it".

The American message is clear: "The US will leave al-Tanf crossing and abandon north-east Syria in al-Hasaka and Deirezzour as soon as possible. The only condition is for Russia and Syria to guarantee a total withdrawal of all Iranian forces from the Levant. The US is ready to leave the Kurds and let these continue their negotiation with Damascus. The US establishment will recognise Assad's authority over Syria but Iran must leave".

Assad responded: "Iranian forces and their allies came to Syria under an official request by the central government and will leave when this government asks the allied forces to leave, and only when all terrorists have been eradicated from the Levant".

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein denied under oath he had threatened to subpoena congressional aides' communications, but a DOJ spokesman had already admitted that was true in statements to multiple news outlets, claiming it was justified.

"Rosenstein threatened to 'subpoena' GOP-led committee in 'chilling' clash over records, emails show," reported Catherine Herridge at Fox News. She quoted from multiple e-mails congressional staff sent to the House of Representatives' Office of General Counsel after a January 2018 meeting with Rosenstein:

South Korean defense and foreign offices summoned Russian officials after its air force were dispatched to warn Russian bombers of entering its air defense zone. Moscow says the planes were flying over the international waters.

Russia's defense ministry confirmed that South Korean planes escorted two Tu-95MS strategic bombers and Su-35S aircraft as they conducted a regular flight over "neutral waters" of the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan and the western part of the Pacific Ocean. At various stages of the route the Russian warplanes were escorted by South Korean F-15 and F-16 fighter jets and Japanese F-2A war planes, according to the statement.

South Korea says two Russian military planes entered four times its air defense identification zone (KADIZ) over the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan and flew away following warnings on Friday afternoon.

The incident prompted South Korean Ministry of Defense to summon Russia's military attaché to South Korea, Andrey Falileev, the Yonhap agency reported on Saturday. The ministry's deputy director-general for international policy, Park Chul-kyun, told Falileev that the move "will not help efforts to stabilize the Korean Peninsula as well as Northeast Asia." Citing the possibility of mid-air collision, he called "to prevent such incidents from happening again."

Sparks went flying today between members of the House Judiciary Committee and disgraced former FBI Agent Peter Strzok. It's still going on - and the grilling has been pervasive, explosive, and popcorn-worthy. Democrats are interrupting constantly, grandstanding pearl clutching, and engaging in some of the worst hypocrisy in recent memory. This hearing is not a threat to our government. The Democrats are the ringmasters of political circuses - and they're only driven by their crap narratives and feelings. So, in that regard, the hearing has been tiring. At the same time, the unhinged ethos that has engulfed the Democratic Party is just gold. I'll never get tired of saying this: you people lost. You're losers - and there were some at the Department of Justice and the FBI who behaved appallingly in their investigations into Clinton's email probe and the Russia counterintelligence investigation that is now being headed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

The Syrian army and the allies of Hezbollah and Iran are preparing to finish off the last pockets of militants and jihadists in the city of Daraa (the western part of it), as well as the Quneitra governorate, where the "Islamic State-Welayat Houran" (ISIS in Quneitra) militants are in control of 18 km along the 1974-line separating Syria from the occupied Golan. The presence of these terrorist groups has been tolerated and even supported by Israel in the last years of the Syrian war.

The next battle will be decisive in ending all pockets outside the authority of the Damascus government. Despite this fact Israel is still trying to intervene in the Syrian south, resisting any acceptance of the status quo: the years of war are over on its borders, and Syria is regaining the control of its territory. Actually, it is also the Israeli officials who are breathing their last in the Syrian war, which is nearing its end. What will remain to be liberated is the US & Turkish occupied North of Syria.

But the failure of the regime change is not hitting only Israel but the entire assembly of pundits in Arab and western countries. Daraa al Balad (the place where the first the slogan was raised in 2011 "Allawites to the coffin and Christians to Beirut" (Alawi ila al-Tabut wal Masihi ila Beirut)), has capitulated to the Syrian Army, who are in control of 85% of the province of Daraa. The Syrian Army is also advancing in ISIS & Huran controlled territory and is taking control of the high ground in order to pound the terrorist group's position. The sound of bombardment is heard in the occupied Golan Heights, under the nose of the Israeli Army - which is incapable of changing the course of this next battle.

Sources in the Syrian capital say that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Moscow will only weaken Israel's position, revealing not only President Putin's intention not to meet the demands of his Israeli guest, but also that Israel's reference in Syria, as it has not resorted to its traditional ally (the United States), has become Moscow, not Washington.