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Interview: Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya says Magnitsky Act lobbyist Browder behind Trump Jr. scandal

Natalia Veselnitskaya
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The scandal concerning the meeting between US President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya was orchestrated by Magnitsky act lobbyist William Browder, the lawyer told RT in an exclusive interview.

"I´m ready to clarify the situation behind this mass hysteria - but only through lawyers or testifying in the Senate," Veselnitskaya told RT.

"I can only assume that the current situation that has been heated up for ten days or so by now is a a very well-orchestrated story concocted by one particular manipulator - Mr. Browder. He is one of the greatest experts in the field of manipulating mass media," Veselnitskaya said.

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Bolivian President Evo Morales: US Empire interfering in Venezuelan affairs in order to seize its oil

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Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Tuesday he believed the United States was preparing a plot against the Venezuelan authorities in order to seize the country's oil.

Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump said that the United States would take strong and swift economic actions if Venezuela called the Constituent Assembly.

"The economic conspiracy of Trump is aimed at the interference and supremacy over the Venezuelan people. Its goal is to seize its oil," Morales wrote on his Twitter page.

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American democracy in action: US threatens Venezuela with sanctions, should there be an assembly election

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US President Donald Trump has stepped up his pressure on Venezuela, following the failed referendum, brokered by the Washington-backed Venezuelan opposition.

In a White House statement, issued on Monday it was said the US president noted the Venezuelan people went to the polls in order to prove how deeply they care about democracy, freedom and the rule of law. However, their strong determination and courage are still being ignored by a bad leader who is dreaming of becoming a dictator."

The statement added that the United States will not stand idly and watch Venezuela collapsing, while also threatening that it will resort to strong economic measures, should an official vote for the new assembly, scheduled for July 30th, take place.

The White House concluded its statement by urging Venezuelan government to allow for the "fair and free" elections.

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Malorossiya: Information war ploy or real revolution?

Alexander Zakharchenko
On July 18th in Donetsk, the leader of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, proclaimed the founding of a new state, Malorossiya ("Little Russia"), in the place of Ukraine which was declared to have finally "demonstrated its bankruptcy." According to Zakharchenko, the establishment of a new, independent state in the likes of Malorossiya could help stop the conflict in Donbass.

As the DPR's Minister of Revenues and Duties, Alexander Timofeev, has stated, the proclaimed Malorossiya will be a federal state featuring broad autonomy, its capital in Donetsk, and the flag of Bogdan Khmelnitsky as its state flag. According to Timofeev, a constitution will be adopted at a popular referendum. The minister also emphasized that the creation of Malorossiya does not contradict the Minsk Agreements.

The Constitutional Act on the Establishment of Malorossiya declares that the established state will maintain a non-aligned status but will continue to pursue accession to the Union State of Russia and Belorussia. The document also enumerates the social policy of the new state in considerable detail, emphasizing struggling against oligarchy, developing people's control in the economy, establishing state concerns, etc. The founding document also declares that elements of direct democracy will be introduced alongside criminal liability for propagandizing the ideas of Ukrainian Nazism and its collaborators (OUN-UPA, etc.).

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How dare he! German FM concludes EU needs new 'detente policy' for Russia, current sanctions-based approach 'unrealistic'

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The EU policy towards Moscow, presently based on strict sanctions, is "unrealistic," the German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said, adding, that he "ardently supports" the idea of a new "de-escalation policy" in relations between Europe and Russia.

"Why cannot we dare to lay a new foundation to the disarmament and arms control [policy] instead of rushing into a giant arms race?" Gabriel rhetorically asked, referring to the western countries' relationship with Russia, in an interview with the German Focus magazine.

"Even though it goes against many things nowadays," he "ardently supports the idea of the new eastern and détente policy" towards Russia, as advocated by then West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and aimed at normalizing relations with the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe, particularly East Germany, in the late '60s and early '70s during the Cold War era.

Gabriel also said the current European stance towards Russia envisages that anti-Russian sanctions could be lifted only after the Minsk agreement is fully implemented. This is an "unrealistic" approach, the German foreign minister underlined.

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Duterte to sign off on long-delayed Muslim self-rule for Mindanao in counter-extremism drive

Rodrigo Duterte
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Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte is expected to push through long-delayed legislation giving autonomy to predominantly-Muslim parts of the embattled southern island of Mindanao.

It's hoped the move will stem the rise of extremism in a region which has seen 500 people killed and thousands more displaced during the most recent conflict between Philippines forces and militants linked to the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in the island's capital city of Marawi.

"This moment is a significant step forward in our quest to end centuries of hatred, mistrust and injustice that cost and affected the lives of millions of Filipinos," Duterte said in a speech Monday, as cited by Reuters.

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The improper association of Victor Pinchuk with Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton covered up by the US media, Department of Justice and the IMF

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Never in the field of American conflict with Russia has so much wool pulled over the eyes been owed to so few sheep. That was during the losing presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Now, in the investigations of President Donald Trump and his family, it's a case of so many sheep producing so little wool.

The case of the $13 million paid to the Clinton family by the Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, in exchange for personal favors and escalation of the war against Russia, was reported in detail throughout 2014. Click to read the opener, and more.

Early this month there has been fresh investigation of Pinchuk's money links with the Clintons, owing to the start of Ukrainian government inquiries into the theft of billions of dollars of International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans to Ukraine - money then transferred to Ukrainian commercial banks including Pinchuk's Credit Dnepr bank, and then loaned to offshore entities controlled by Pinchuk but apparently not repaid. Theft of the IMF money was first reported here in connection with Igor Kolomoisky's operation of Privat Bank.

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IMF: Greek debt will be unsustainable after 2030 and credit system will need additional funding of 10 billion euros

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The International Monetary Fund has again found that Greece's debt is unsustainable under every scenario, according to the report the Executive Council will be discussing on Thursday to decide on the Fund's participation in the Greek program, sources say.

The word from Washington is that the Fund's technocrats have included various scenarios in their debt sustainability analysis (DSA), including one that incorporates the eurozone's commitments for short-term measures and a high primary surplus, but none see Greece's debt becoming sustainable.

Washington sources suggest that the Executive Council will tell the eurozone that unless creditors offer more debt-relief measures, the IMF will not be able to participate in the Greek program with funds.

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Five reasons the Malorossiya declaration is a modest proposal that the EU, Russia and US should support

Alexander Zakharchenko
Alexander Zakharchenko
Today's Malorossiya declaration gives most international parties who are observing the conflict in Donbass, most of what they have wanted for years. On inspection, the proposals are the opposite of radical, they are entirely reasonable. They do not require the Russian Federation to absorb new territory and it would restore human rights in Ukraine/Malorossiya to pre-2014 levels or better.

Predictable condemnation of the declaration of the state of Malorossiya has come from EU states, the Kiev regime and even Russian officials. But on closer inspection, Malorossiya could be a win-win situation for Europe, Russia, the United States and for the people of Malorossiya.

Here's why.

1. Malorossiya to remain sovereign from the Russian Federation

For those who have been following measures that many politicians in Donbass and The Russian Federation have taken to integrate the bureaucratic, financial and logistical ties between Donbass and Russia, today's announcement does not call for Malorossiya to become part of the Russian Federation.

Comment: See also: Leaders of Donetsk declare new state of Malorossiya


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'We the people' are the enemy in the eyes of the American police state

"Monsters in movies are us, always us, one way or the other. They're us with hats on. The zombies in George Romero's movies are us. They're hungry. Monsters are us, the dangerous parts of us. The part that wants to destroy. The part of us with the reptile brain. The part of us that's vicious and cruel. We express these in our stories as the monsters out there. The zombies are back. They are hungry. And they are lurking around every corner."—Filmmaker John Carpenter
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RIP George Romero (1940-2017).

Romero—a filmmaker hailed as the architect of the zombie genre—is dead at the age of 77, but the zombified police state culture he railed against lives on.

Just take a look around you.

"We the people" have become the walking dead of the American police state.

We're still plagued by the socio-political evils of cultural apathy, materialism, domestic militarism and racism that Romero depicted in his Night of the Living Dead trilogy.

Romero's zombies have taken on a life of their own in pop culture, as well.

Indeed, you don't have to look very far anymore to find them lurking around every corner: wreaking havoc in movie blockbusters, running for their lives in 5K charity races, and putting government agents through their paces in mock military drills arranged by the Dept. of Defense (DOD) and the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

In fact, the CDC put together a zombie apocalypse preparation kit "that details everything you would need to have on hand in the event the living dead showed up at your front door."

Zombies also embody the government's paranoia about the citizenry as potential threats that need to be monitored, tracked, surveilled, sequestered, deterred, vanquished and rendered impotent.