British authorities have thwarted five terrorist attacks in the past three to four months, the Metropolitan Police commissioner has confirmed. Some of them were "within minutes" of being carried out.

"Just in the last few weeks, five [have been foiled]. And overall, it's well into the teens in the last couple of years where we know people were intent on attacking and that's been stopped," Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick told LBC radio on Friday, later clarifying that they were thwarted "over the last three to four months."

"Some of them, we would say, were very close to an attack - very close," she said.

Trump Advisor Sebastian Gorka destroys CNN over ratings on Anderson Cooper.

Another Russia fake news marathon segment between CNN and Trump staff.

Of note, Sebastian Gorka brings up Ukraine's US election meddling with the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC, for which Cooper acknowledges collusion and meddling from Ukraine did in fact occur.

Gorka crushed CNN with this statement...

"The story only has legs because the fake news industrial complex is obsessed. Nine months of accusations with zero, zero evidence of anything illegal."

"On the contrary, the DNC sends its operative onto the soil of a foreign nation, to the embassy of the Ukraine. Not to collect dirt, but to actually use it in a coordinated campaign with a foreign government."

"That's what CNN should be covering. But why aren't you?"

After the US shot down a second Iran made armed drone on Syria and a Syrian jet in a separate case in last two weeks, Iran responded with a direct missile strike on an ISIS command center in the Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. The strike has also come at a time when Iran has become the latest victim of ISIS attacks in Tehran. While the attack in itself demonstrates that ISIS is not yet finished, it also underscores the reason for Iran's deep involvement in the Syrian conflict, which is: had Iran not come to rescue the Syrian regime against a Saudi/Wahhabi funded proxy war, the war would certainly have ultimately reached Iran - just as it has reached now, albeit in a much less devastating manner - through Syria and wreaked havoc there too. This can explain why, for instance, Iran has been spending billions of dollars (estimates vary from US$6 billion to US$15) annually despite its bad economic health due to Americans sanctions. As such, Iran's deep motivation for deeper military involvement is based on the fact that if the ISIS and other jihadi outfits are not prevented from establishing control, Iran will ultimately become the next target after Syria.

Iran, therefore, is clearly poised to un-doing the Saudi-US regional agenda. In this context, the missile strike has amply demonstrated not only the extent to which it can go, but also shown who it can target in the region. ISIS is far from the only force and entity that the Iranian missiles can wash away. This is pretty evident from the official message given by the Chief of Staff of Iran's armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Hossein Baqueri, who said in the next morning after the strike, "Iran is among the world's big powers in the missile field. They (read the US and its allies) don't have the capability to engage in conflict with us at present, and of course, we don't intend to involve in clashes with them, but we are in permanent rivalry with them in different fields, including the missile sector."

Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Democratic Congressman David Cicilline, who claimed on Carlson's show that RT is simply a "Russian propaganda" machine.

The confrontation starts off as Cicilline says the US should "hold them [the Russian government] to account and sanction them," so that "Russia understands that America isn't going to allow that."

Host Tucker Carlson interrupted to ask: "Not to allow what exactly?"

Cicilline stumbles with his response, repeating instead a familiar refrain among politicians in the United States: "Russian RT propaganda" is to blame.

Another day, another "wait, he said WHAT?!" story, courtesy of US President Donald Trump. This time, Trump told Brigitte Macron, the First Lady of France, that she was in "such good shape. She's in such good physical shape. Beautiful."


​The setting this time was Paris, France, during a meeting between Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron. Trump had made the jaunt to commemorate both Bastille Day and the 100th anniversary of the American entry into World War I.

​The First Couples of the United States and of France had just finished a tour of Les Invalides, the grave of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte when Trump was recorded making his, uh, uncomfortable compliment to the French first lady.

The Iraqi city of Mosul. The Syrian city of Aleppo. Both 'liberated' in recent months from radical jihadist terror groups. But while one anti-terrorist operation has been lauded in the West, the other was fiercely denounced.

The very different ways in which the respective 'liberations' were portrayed tells us much about the way war propaganda works in the so-called free world.

For the last few days we've been fed triumphant reports on western news media about the 'liberation' of Mosul from ISIS. US President Donald Trump issued a White House Statement congratulating the Iraqi authorities in which the words 'liberation' or 'liberated' appeared three times.

Why is the Senate not insisting on interviewing Mr. Simpson?

Glenn Simpson, the founder of Fusion GPS, the espionage firm which ordered the completely fake Trump 'dirty dossier', which John McCain then handed to the FBI, and which Buzzfeed News then published as actual news, has cancelled his testimony before Congress next week.

The Gateway Pundit reports...

Fusion GPS was in the news again this week after Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya who met with Donald Trump Jr. last June in New York City was linked to the far left propaganda.

Simpson will not testify next week on the fake dossier.

Foreign fighters for Daesh terror group can no longer enter Syria, US presidential envoy Brett McGurk said on Thursday.

Foreign fighters for Daesh terror group (banned in Russia) can no longer enter Syria, US presidential envoy Brett McGurk said on Thursday.

"The foreign fighters are not coming into Syria anymore, and those who are already in Iraq and Syria — we have been working very hard to make sure they can never get out," McGurk told reporters in a briefing.

In June, a Shia-majority militia, the Hashd al-Shaabi force, announced it recaptured the Tal Safwak checkpoint on the Iraqi side of the border with Syria. The People's Protection Units (YPG), a US partner force, control the other side.

Canadian Brig. Gen. D.J. Anderson, partner force development director for Operation Inherent Resolve, said on July 6 that the whole border area between Iraq and Syria must be cleared of terrorists and secured.

The ceasefire agreed by Presidents Putin and Trump has better prospects of success than the previous ceasefires agreed by Secretary of State Kerry and Foreign Minister Lavrov because the Trump administration is more united and has a more realistic policy towards Syria than did the Obama administration.

During his press conference following his meeting with President Macron, US President Trump spoke with hope and some pride about the ceasefire in southern Syria he agreed with Russian President Putin during their meeting on the margins of the G20 summit

Trade between Moscow and Beijing has increased significantly in the first six months of the year, according to the Chinese customs administration.

Through June, trade between Russia and China was worth $39.78 billion. Russian exports increased 29.3 percent to $20.34 billion, while Chinese exports to Russia were up 22.2 percent to $19.44 billion.

In 2016, trade between Moscow and Beijing grew only 2.2 percent to $69.52 billion. The countries have set a goal to boost trade to $200 billion by 2020.