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Hannity calls out Mueller for distracting from Hillary funding 'Trump Dossier': "Real collusion he knew about!"

Joshua Caplan
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 00:01 UTC
Sean Hannity
Sean Hannity is leading the charge among media figures calling out Special Counsel Robert Mueller for covering up corruption by Hillary Clinton. The Fox News host refuses to allow Mueller's first round of charges expected on Monday to distracted from the Clinton-Uranian One scandal, 'Trump dossier' funding bombshell or the 33,000 deleted emails.

On Sunday, President Trump called for investigators to probe Hillary Clinton's role in funding the now discredited 'Trump dossier.'
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Damascus says US-led coalition celebrating Raqqa 'liberation' over the bodies of their victims


RT
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:31 UTC
raqqa destruction
© Erik De Castro / Reuters"Liberated" Raqqa
The US-led coalition has cruelly destroyed civilian infrastructure and has occupied the city of Raqqa it captured from ISIS, Syria's Foreign Ministry has said, accusing the "illegitimate alliance" of misleading the international community about its true intentions.

"Syria considers the claims of the United States and its so-called alliance about the liberation of Raqqa city from ISIS to be lies aiming to divert international public opinion from the crimes committed by this alliance in Raqqa province," an official source in Syrian Foreign Ministry told the SANA news agency.

On October 20, after four months of heavy fighting, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) established control over Raqqa, once the de facto capital of the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group. The US command says more than 1,100 US-supported troops were killed and over 3,900 wounded in the battle for the city.
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Russia in the news: Partial pullout from Syria planned, meeting with U.S. on Ukraine scheduled for November


TASS
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:23 UTC
russian jet
© Valery Sharifulin/TASS
Kommersant: Russia mulling partial military withdrawal from Syria

As the Syrian crisis shifts towards a political settlement, Moscow may be considering a partial withdrawal of its military forces from the country, Kommersant writes with reference to military and diplomatic sources. The plan is to partially roll back the amount of hardware of the mixed aviation group based in Hmeimim (Latakia province) and pull out part of the military contingent from the republic, the sources said, adding that no final decisions have been made yet and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have the last word on the matter.

According to the data provided by Russia's Defense Ministry, Bashar Assad's government forces control around 95% of Syrian land and do not need Russia's massive support for their final attack on the Islamists' positions. If implemented, the plan implies that only the contingent required for protecting sites in Hmeimim and Tartus will be left in Syria, as well as military police units and military advisors, Kommersant writes. As for what equipment will be withdrawn from the country, that remains to be decided on. Expert at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies Konstantin Makiyenko feels that it reasonable to pull out the most valuable equipment, leaving old units there, whereas Su-24s may be left permanently in Syria.
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Is the US-Israel evil axis setting it sights on Lebanon for the next Middle East war?

Ulson Gunnar
New Eastern Outlook
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:10 UTC
Lebanon soldiers
US politicians, policymakers and commentators insist that the United States military's involvement in Syria and Iraq is solely aimed at defeating militants from the self-titled Islamic State (IS). However, it is abundantly clear that before the Russian intervention in Syria in 2015, the United States was engaged in a proxy war against Damascus, not IS and that as the Russian intervention began rolling IS back and the organization clung to existence, Washington found itself revising its narrative around a new pretext to remain in the region, the "Iranian threat."

Geopolitical analysts have long-warned that regime change in Tehran was always America's ultimate goal and that the conflicts ignited across the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) was a means of reorganizing the Arab World into a united front against Tehran and its allies and in turn, against Moscow and Beijing.
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NATO General says Turkey will likely be punished for buying Russian defense systems instead of American

Jason Ditz
AntiWar.com
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:58 UTC
S-400
© Sputnik
In looking to upgrade their air defense system, Turkey had a choice: buying the advanced Russian S-400 systems, or more expensive, US-made alternatives. Turkey chose to buy Russian, and NATO isn't happy.

While NATO was initially just complaining the S-400 was incompatible with their own systems, top NATO General Petr Pavel told reporters this week that Turkey is likely to be punished by the alliance for not buying American.

Comment: Pavel keeps using that word 'sovereign'. We don't think it means what he thinks it means.

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U.S. citizen taken hostage by Taliban disputes Pompeo and Pakistan's accounts: Family was held in Afghanistan AND Pakistan

Memphis Barker
Telegraph, UK
Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:38 UTC
Hostage fam
© AFPCaitlan Coleman, husband Joshua Boyle and two sons
Caitlan Coleman, the 31-year-old American woman who gave birth to three children while held hostage by the Haqqani network, has disputed Pakistan's account of her rescue in an interview likely to embarrass the country's powerful military.

Pakistan has long bridled at accusations it harbours militants including the Taliban-linked Haqqanis inside the country.

Yet in her first interview since being released, Ms Coleman said that she and her family had spent "more than a year" in Pakistan before their rescue on Oct 11. Pakistan's military had claimed to have freed the hostages as they were crossing the border from Afghanistan.

"We were not crossing into Pakistan that day", Ms Coleman told the Toronto Star, explaining that the Haqqanis had often kept her and her husband, whom they had captured in 2012, in Pakistan.

The family passed their final few months in between Kohat and Banu, districts in the lawless tribal regions bordering Afghanistan, she said. According to Ms Coleman her husband, Joshua Boyle, 34, understood enough Farsi to keep tabs on their location.

Comment: More on the Boyles and their release from captivity earlier this year: Afghan hostages refuse to return to US after liberation from Taliban-linked group by US, Pakistan

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Flashback Enough evidence now for a RICO case against Clinton Foundation for "racketeering", says Giuliani

Tim Hains
Real Clear Politics
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 00:01 UTC
Saturday evening on Fox News Channel's 'Justice with Jeanine Pirro' former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that a grand jury already has enough evidence, from WikiLeaks and the FBI, to charge "Clinton Incorporated" with racketeering under the RICO laws that were originally designed to go after the mafia.
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Russia begins work with Syria for political settlement as war with ISIS nears end


Sputnik
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:42 UTC
Assad Syria Generals
© REUTERS/ SANA
According to the Russian special presidential envoy for Syria, Syrian President Bashar Assad wants to stick to commitments undertaken previously concerning the transition to the political settlement after the main military phase of the fight against terrorism is completed.

Russian special presidential envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentiev said in an interview to RT and Rossiya-24 that the Russian delegation visited Damascus to discuss the issue of the future political transition with Syrian President Bashar Assad. The talks were focused on the government's vision of the further political settlement.

"We wanted to see whether Damascus is maintaining its commitment to the obligations it previously undertook. In particular, concerning the transition to a political settlement after the main military phase of the fight against terrorism is completed," Lavrentiev said.
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Road to serfdom: How Neoliberal economic theories serve the wealthy and big business

Lambert Strether
naked capitalism
Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Thatcher and Reagan, neoliberal economics
Lambert here: I'm hoisting this one paragraph:
But this leads to the main paradox of neoliberalism. Its economic system needs a strong state, even at the expense of constraining democracy, to guarantee property rights and the working of the free market, while actively maintaining the rule of neoliberal social philosophy. At the same time some of its proponents tend to dismiss strong states (Mirowski, 2013). In fact, laissez faire was the last thing neoliberals wanted to achieve. This paradoxical stance towards the state led Milton Friedman, the policy entrepreneur to become an advisor of the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet to transform Chile into a policy playground.
If there should be "markets in everything," it follows there should be markets in selling off bits of the state. That works until it doesn't, as (I would argue) the Tory heirs of Maggie Thatcher are discovering.
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Putin: Foreign NGO's 'have almost reduced by half'


TASS
Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:25 UTC
Their number has dropped from 165 to 89, according to the Russian president

Putin
© Alexey Druzhinin/ Russian presidential press service/TASS
The number of foreign agents among non-profit organizations in Russia has dwindled, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday.

"Now in the registry of foreign agents such organizations have almost reduced by half, their number has dropped from 165 to 89, this is 0.39% out of the overall number of NGOs registered in Russia," Putin told a meeting of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

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