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Summing up the Trump-Putin meeting: Good bonding but limited progress on Syria, Ukraine and cyber security

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:41 UTC
Putin and Trump
Effective Russian diplomacy meant that the first Trump-Putin summit though leading to no breakthroughs made important if limited progress on a number of topics whilst establishing a genuine connection between the two Presidents.

The single most important fact about the Trump-Putin meeting is that it went on for 2 hours, four times longer than planned. What was supposed to be a brief encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit became a deep and animated conversation the two men didn't want to end.

This is not wholly unexpected. The Russians before the meeting had signaled that the meeting would cover the full range of US-Russians relation. Since it is hardly possible that could be done in a meeting lasting no more than half an hour - especially one conducted through interpreters - they must have anticipated that it would go on for longer.
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Whistleblower: NSA cannot identify future terrorism because 99.9999% of what it collects and analyzes is irrelevant


Washington's Blog
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
nsa building
© Larry Downing / Reuters
The man who designed the NSA's electronic intelligence gathering system (Bill Binney) sent us an affidavit which he signed on the Fourth of July explaining that the NSA is still spying on normal, every day Americans ... and not focused on stopping terror attacks (I've added links to provide some background):

The attacks on September 11, 2001 completely changed how the NSA conducted surveillance .... the individual liberties preserved in the U.S. Constitution were no longer a consideration. In October 2001, the NSA began to implement a group of intelligence activities now known as the "President's Surveillance Program."

The President's Surveillance Program involved the collection of the full content of domestic e-mail traffic without any of the privacy protections built into [the program that Binney had designed]. This was done under the authorization of Executive Order 12333. This meant that the nation's e-mail could be read by NSA staff members without the approval of any court or judge.
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Three countries and three continents: One imperial Western project

Neil Clark
RT
Sat, 08 Jul 2017 14:22 UTC
US soldiers ride a military vehicle in al-Kherbeh village, northern Aleppo province
© Khalil AshawiUS soldiers ride a military vehicle in al-Kherbeh village, northern Aleppo province.
A resource-rich, socialist-led, multi-ethnic secular state, with an economic system characterized by a high level of public/social ownership and generous provision of welfare, education and social services.

An independent foreign policy with friendship and good commercial ties with Russia, support for Palestine and African and Arab unity - and historical backing for anti-imperialist movements.

Social progress in a number of areas, including women's emancipation.

The above accurately describes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and the Syrian Arab Republic. Three countries in three different continents, which had so much in common.

All three had governments which described themselves as socialist. All three pursued a foreign policy independent of Washington and NATO. And all three were targeted for regime change/destruction by the US and its allies using remarkably similar methods.
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UAE FM: Qatar's rejection of Arab states' ultimatum and denial of terrorism financing 'shockingly naive'


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 14:13 UTC
Doha, Qatar
© Naseem Zeitoon / Reuters
Accusations by the Arab quartet which imposed a blockade against Qatar over the monarchy's alleged support of terrorism are baseless defamation, the country's foreign ministry said. The UAE termed Doha's arguments weak and shockingly naive.
"The State of Qatar's position on terrorism is consistent and known for its rejection and condemnation of all forms of terrorism whatever the causes and motives are," the country Foreign Ministry said in a statement attributed to a senior Foreign Ministry source.

"Claims about the State of Qatar's interference in internal affairs of countries and financing terrorism are baseless allegations," the source stressed, adding, that Doha actively supports anti-terrorist efforts in the region which the "international community attests to."

Comment: Also read this analyses: The mouse that roared: How Saudi Arabia underestimated Qatar

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The joint Polish-Croatian "Three Seas Initiative" and its geostrategic implications

Andrew Korybko
Global Research
Fri, 07 Jul 2017 00:00 UTC
Three Seas Initiative
The joint Polish-Croatian initiative aims to bring together three distinct blocs of countries occupying the strategic space between several of Europe's seas, which will ultimately work out to the US and China's benefit while negatively impacting on Russia and the EU.

President Trump was just in Poland to participate in this year's Three Seas Summit, which is essentially the 21st-century revival of the "Intermarium" proposal advanced by Poland's interwar strongman Josef Piłsudski. This initiative sought to position Warsaw as the regional hegemon between the Baltic and Black Seas and essentially restore the geopolitical contours of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth under the guise of "countering communism". It never got too far off the ground, but its legacy continued to influence Polish strategic thinking into the modern day, which is why Poland decided to expand its present scope to include the Adriatic after joining forces with Croatia last year to unveil the Three Seas Initiative.

The American leader's presence at this year's event was hugely symbolic because of the Euro-Realist (smeared by the Mainstream Media as "Euroskeptic") overtones of the gathering, which are also in line with the President's own ideology toward the bloc. In addition, it's popularly accepted that the neoconservative faction of the American "deep state" (it's permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies) are exerting heavy influence on Trump's policies towards Moscow, so they'd be delighted to see the formation of what they hope could someday become just as anti-Russian of a bloc as the original Intermarium that Piłsudski conceived of.
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The mouse that roared: How Saudi Arabia underestimated Qatar

Catherine Shakdam
RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:11 UTC
People sit on the corniche in Doha, Qatar
© Naseem Zeitoon / ReutersPeople sit on the corniche in Doha, Qatar.
There is a certain irony to the crisis that ails the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), now that Qatar has been labelled a pariah by Saudi Arabia. Terror aside, this stand-off has potential to reshape the region into a completely new geopolitical entity.

How fast yesterday's allies become today's enemies, and those we long held as foes sit together as reliable partners in a time of crisis. I don't think that many political analysts can claim to have predicted Saudi Arabia's fall from grace. Yet the writing was on the wall for all to see. Crude, pragmatic and as inevitable as man's greed before the alluring calls of power.

Both insignificant and geopolitically incontournable, I fear. Or maybe it is hoped that Qatar will be the mouse in Saudi Arabia's fable, the one uncounted variable that will see the kingdom crashing down out of a desire to over-reach.
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Putin: Trump different than on TV, we can restore relations with US


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:15 UTC
Putin
The Donald Trump seen on television is different from the one in real life, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the G20 summit, adding that after his meeting with the US leader in Hamburg, he felt like relations between the two countries could at least partially be restored.
"As for personal relations, I think that they are established," Putin said of his Friday meeting with Trump.

"The Trump we see on TV is very much different from the real person."

"I think that if we continue building our relations like during our conversation yesterday, there are grounds to believe that we'll be able to - at least partially - restore the level of cooperation that we need," Putin said.
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Rachel Maddow's fake news scandal: Her "proof of Trump-Russia collusion" was a hoax

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:16 UTC
Rachel Maddow
She thought she had it. The smoking gun that would prove someone in Trump's campaign colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. But, when a forged NSA document sent to Rachel Maddow turned out to be just more bad information from more anonymous sources, it left the crusading MSNBC host feeling a bit "triggered." As such, she opened her show last night with the following segment:
"Somebody, for some reason, appears to be shopping a fairly convincing fake NSA document that purports to directly implicate somebody from the Trump campaign in working with the Russians in their attack in the election."

"This is news, because: why is someone shopping a forged document of this kind to news organizations covering the Trump-Russia affair?"
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Syria thanks N. Korea for 'principled stance' on Arab issues, pays tribute to Kim Il-Sung

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:16 UTC
Kim il Sung
Syria pays tribute to Syria thanked North Korea for its principled stance on Arab issues including Palestinian freedom.

North Korea has marked the anniversary of the passing of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung. In addition to being the modern founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kim Il-sung is also widely regarded as the philosophical and spiritual founder of the nation and a war hero.

It was Kim Il-Sung who developed North Korea's guiding ideology of Juche which combines Marxist-Leninism with traditional and modern Korean values.
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President Trump: G20 meeting with Putin was 'tremendous'


RT
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:16 UTC
Trump Putin meeting G20 Hamburg
US President Donald Trump said that his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday was "tremendous." The first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders lasted for more than two hours on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg.

"I had a tremendous meeting yesterday with President Putin," Trump said while speaking with UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday.

Putin and Trump met for more than two hours, instead of the planned 30-40 minutes. The leaders had "positive chemistry"and "connected quickly," US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after the meeting on Friday.

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