Transatlantic intrigue reaches a fever pitch this week as the Trump-Putin summit approach in July. Also, NATO’s think tank, the Atlantic Council, gives 8 year-old child Bana Alabed their 2018 “Freedom Award” alongside none other than war criminal Madeleine Albright who famously remarked that 500,000 dead Iraqi “was worth it.” All this and more…
UK Column anchor Mike Robinson is joined by 21WIRE’s Patrick Henningsen for today’s international news round-up.
START – Gavin Williamson: give me £20 billion…or else
Ronald Reagan: never negotiate with terrorists…
EU: to effectively address rising threats…a military schengen
UK Column articles: EU military unification
Federica Mogherini looking drained and stressed
09:06 – Syria: a ‘ridiculous anti-Syria report’ by @crisisgroup
Syrian government continues to retake territory from terrorists De-escalation areas are being used to protect terrorists
14:50 – Mideast Christians see Russia – not the US – as defender of their faith
16:51 – Frome Stop War event: Reverend Andrew Ashdown presentation update
17:25 – Atlantic Council: 2018 freedom award ‘winners’ Child ‘activist’ Bana Alabed being used as propaganda outlet
22:35 – Al Jazeera real news: an unworthy war…? US/UK reporting on Yemen
24:08 – Austria gearing up for Putin-Trump meeting in Vienna on July 15
26:56 – Maxine Waters: God is booing Trump…
28:15 – Alternative View 9 DVDs available for pre-order
28:35 – Prince William begins historic tour of Middle East including Israel
30:35 – Russian Embassy & Sky News: World Cup is peaceful
33:28 – David Lidington speaks today at think tank on outsourcing: Pushing privatisation agenda and attack on Freedom of Information
36:20 – Brexit: pro-Corbyn group to launch drive for public vote on Brexit deal
‘More than 50’ Tory MPs prepared to defy Treason May to stop no-deal Brexit
40:10 – Big Pharma to lose $18.5 billion if all US states legalise marijuana
21st Century Wire article: George Soros and the GMO cannabis revolution
Russia says Canada’s weed legalisation undermines International Law
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