Hillary Clinton has no nice words to say about Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, claiming that he will 'burn the place down' if he loses a district in the election. Her words were met with mockery and cries of hypocrisy.

Clinton's comments were included in a Page Six article by Cindy Adams after an off-the-record conversation between the pair. When asked about the current Democratic presidential candidates, Adams said Clinton has "No good words about no good Bernie Sanders. Stuff like: Anyone overtaking him in a district considered his, he'll burn the place down."

Clinton has long been accused of being a sore loser after her failed 2016 presidential run against Republican Donald Trump. She has repeatedly blamed Sanders, the Russians, the FBI, Barack Obama, the media, and Green candidate Jill Stein for her shocking loss.

India is firmly planning to counter the US decision to withdraw Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) on Indian goods by imposing retaliatory tariffs from the coming month, said Trade Promotion Council of India (TPCI) on Monday.

'India might counter the US decision to withdraw GSP on its exports by imposing retaliatory tariffs from the coming month. If the Indian government goes ahead with retaliatory tariffs, twenty-nine items imported from the US, including walnuts, lentils, boric acid and diagnostic reagents, among others will face higher duties, cutting benefits to US exporters,' said TPCI Chairman Mohit Singla in a statement here.

The industry estimates, this move will impose an additional burden of USD 290 million per year on US items exported to India, he said.

Turkish president Recep Erdogan has said a US consolation offer of Patriot air defense systems was no match for the offer made by Russia on its S-400. Turkey won't step out of the deal with Moscow, despite US pressure, he added.

The White House has been threatening NATO-ally Turkey with sanctions for quite a while already, urging it to ditch the $2.5-billion S-400 accord with Moscow. The US cites security concerns and incompatibility of the Russian equipment with American systems.

"There is an agreement here and we are committed to it," Erdogan countered, when speaking to journalists. "It is out of the question for us to take a step back."

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are visiting London for his first official state visit to England and then they are off to France for the 75th Anniversary of D-Day.

President Trump is expected to challenge outgoing Prime Minister Threresa May on the British spying on his campaign during the 2016 elections.

Ben Riley Smith at The Telegraph reported:

The US president has ordered his attorney general to scrutinise whether the UK intelligence services passed on information to the Americans that helped kick-start the inquiry.

Mr Trump has voiced concerns that the CIA or FBI used information passed through the 'Five Eyes' intelligence sharing network to launch the Russian links investigation before the 20216 election.

In May the British Telegraph newspaper revealed the UK knew of Christopher Steele's junk Trump-Russia dossier after the 2016 election.The Gateway Pundit put together evidence last month that the Brits knew earlier than they were letting on.

In my article, Avoiding Assange, a month ago, right after the first US indictment was issued, I addressed two diversionary arguments that I knew would be used by those who want to hide their complicity with American imperialism under leftish cover - that is, those who don't want to be seen as endorsing the United States government's prosecution of Assange for, and intimidation of every journalist in the world from, reporting the embarrassing truth about American war crimes, but who also don't really want to stand in the way of Assange's extradition to the United States.

The first of those arguments was the denial that the USG's charge against Assange posed any threat to press freedom - that it was just about "hacking," not publishing. Both the New York Times (NYT) and the Washington Post (WaPo) pretended to believe in, and celebrated, the Trump administration's meticulous threading of the legal/constitutional needle to avoid endangering freedom of speech and the press. For the NYT: "The administration has begun well by charging Mr. Assange with an indisputable crime...not with publishing classified government information, but with stealing it, skirting - for now - critical First Amendment questions." For the WaPo, the indictment was "not the defeat for civil liberties of which his defenders mistakenly warn," but "a victory for the rule of law."

Well, that argument and pretence have now disappeared with the USG's superseding indictment that uses the Espionage Act to threaten Assange with 175 years in prison. Even the most Assange-hating liberal media personalities and institutions - from the NYT and WaPo to MSNBC and the Guardian - have no way to deny the threat this poses to freedom of the press. As Alan Rusbridger, Assange-hating former editor of the Assange-hating Guardian, recognizes, the US indictment is an attempt "to criminalise things journalists regularly do as they receive and publish true information given to them by sources or whistleblowers." And, for the NYT Editorial Board, the present indictment no longer "skirts," but "aims at the heart of the First Amendment."

Donald Trump told British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday that the United States would do a very substantial and fair deal with the United Kingdom after Brexit.

"I think we'll have a very very substantial trade deal, it'll be a very fair deal, and I think it's something we both want to do," Trump told May and business leaders at the start of a roundtable meeting. "We're going to get it done."

Trump thanked May for doing a fantastic job and said he didn't know May's timings but that she should stick around.

Why Barr's investigation is important and should be encouraged

It cannot be emphasized too often: Russiagate - allegations that the American president has been compromised by the Kremlin and which may even have helped to put him in the White House - is the worst and (considering the lack of actual evidence) most fraudulent political scandal in American history. We have yet to calculate the damage Russiagate has inflicted on America's democratic institutions, including the presidency and the electoral process, and on domestic and foreign perceptions of American democracy, or on US-Russian relations at a critical moment when both sides, having "modernized" their nuclear weapons, are embarking on a new, more dangerous, and largely unreported arms race.

Rational (if politically innocent) observers may have thought that when the Mueller Report found no "collusion" or other conspiracy between Trump and Vladimir Putin's Kremlin, only possible "obstruction" by Trump - nothing Mueller said in his May 29 press statement altered that conclusion - Russiagate would fade away. If so, they were badly mistaken. Evidently infuriated that Mueller did not liberate the White House from Trump, Russiagate promoters - liberal Democrats and progressives foremost among them - have only redoubled their unverified collusion allegations, even in once-respectable media outlets. Whether out of political ambition or impassioned faith, the damage wrought by these Russiagaters continues to mount, with no end in sight.

A Ukrainian activist who rejoiced at the sight of 48 anti-Maidan protesters burning to death in Odessa in 2014 has been hired by Facebook ostensibly to combat Russian 'disinformation'.

Kateryna Kruk will be working out of Warsaw in her new role as Facebook's public policy manager for Ukraine. While Kruk's immediate duties are not clear, the announcement was met with enthusiasm by her followers, hoping she would unleash a crackdown on 'Kremlin trolls'. Kruk has an unequivocal anti-Russian reputation, having written for several international publications and on Twitter.

Kruk shot to prominence at the height of the mass protests that preceded the 2014 armed coup in Kiev, becoming a 'spokesman for Euromaidan' as she live-tweeted in English from the first days of the two-month protest. As the movement was hijacked by right-wing nationalists led by the Right Sector and the far-right, borderline neo-Nazi Svoboda party, the situation quickly spiraled into violence. Around that time, Kruk worked as a staffer for Svoboda, praising the party for being "Ukrainian-focused," while expressing some reservations about its hardline ultra-nationalist ideology.

US President Donald Trump rolled into the UK on Monday, dishing out scorching insults like it was going out of fashion. Surely Brexit Britain has suffered enough humiliation already?

Before he had even touched down on the tarmac, Trump had already branded London's mayor a "stone cold loser" who has "done a terrible job." But he had set the ball rolling days before, calling Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle "nasty" - and wading into the Brexit debate, advising politicians to "walk away" from the deal with the EU and touting the negotiating skills of Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage.

It would be difficult to imagine a role reversal; a British PM using an official US state visit to tweet put-downs at high-profile American political figures or berating members of Congress over domestic failures during their stay. Yet, despite the humiliating comments, British submissiveness to American power has been on full display, as Trump enjoyed meet-and-greets with the Queen and various other royals, all of whom, naturally, acted like nothing untoward had been said hours earlier.

Venezuela's natural resources lure many companies that would like to tap them, especially American ones, and sanctions against the South American country only confirm this, according to the head of Russian oil major Rosneft.

"Venezuela is number one in the world and everybody wants to work there, including American companies. The imposition of sanctions against this country shows only one thing - the burning interest in its resource base from the US administration," Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said on Tuesday.

Some US-based oil refineries specialize in processing Venezuela's heavy crude. But the Latin American state has its own facilities to upgrade extra heavy oil into synthetic crude oil, to bring it to the quality accepted by US plants, Sechin explained.