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President Trump & Vladimir Putin Reach a Ceasefire Deal in the Syrian Civil War

HAMBURG, Germany – The United States and Russia made an agreement Friday on a cease-fire in Syria in President Donald Trump's first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is the first U.S.-Russian effort under Trump's presidency to stop Syria's six-year civil war.

The cease-fire goes into effect Sunday at noon Damascus time, according to U.S. officials and the Jordanian government, which is also involved in the deal.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who accompanied Trump in his meeting with Putin, said the understanding is designed to reduce violence in an area of Syria near Jordan's border and which is critical to the U.S. ally's security.

It's a "very complicated part of the Syrian battlefield," Tillerson told reporters after the U.S. and Russian leaders met for about 2 hours and 15 minutes on the sidelines of a global summit in Hamburg, Germany.

Of the agreement, he said: "I think this is our first indication of the U.S. and Russia being able to work together in Syria."

For years, the former Cold War foes have been backing opposing sides in Syria's war. Moscow has staunchly backed Syrian President Bashar Assad, supporting Syrian forces militarily since 2015. Washington has backed rebels fighting Assad. Both the U.S. and Russia oppose Islamic State militants and say they're focused on rooting out the extremist group.

Russia's top diplomat, who accompanied Putin in the meeting with Trump, said Russian military police will monitor the new truce. All sides will try to ensure aid deliveries to the area, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The deal marks a new level of involvement for the Trump administration in trying to resolve Syria's civil war.

Trump ordered some 60 cruise missiles to be fired at a Syrian air base in April after accusing Assad's forces of a deadly chemical weapons attack. But his top military and national security advisers pointedly said they had no intentions of intervening to oust Assad. And they stopped short of endorsing Russian-led or U.N. peace mediation efforts between Assad's government and rebel groups.

Israel also is part of the agreement, one U.S. official said, who like others wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter ahead of Tillerson's official announcement and demanded anonymity. Like Jordan, Israel shares a border with the southern part of Syria and has been concerned about a spillover of violence as well as an amassing of Iranian-aligned forces in the south of the country.

Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani confirmed an accord involving his country, the U.S. and Russia. He made no reference to Israel's participation. Syrian government forces and its allies will stay on one side of an agreed demarcation line, and rebel fighters will stick to the other side. The goal is also to enable aid to reach this area of Syria, Momani told state media.

The deal is separate from an agreement that Russia, Turkey and Iran struck earlier this year to try to establish "de-escalation zones" in Syria with reduced bloodshed.

Previous cease-fires in Syria have collapsed or failed to reduce violence for long, and it was unclear whether this deal would be any better.

Tillerson said the difference this time is Russia's interest in seeing Syria return to stability. It's an argument top U.S. officials such as former Secretary of State John Kerry cited regularly amid his failed efforts to end a conflict that has killed as many as a half-million people, contributed to Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II and allowed IS to emerge as a global terror threat.

Tillerson also repeated the U.S. position that a "long-term role for the Assad family and the Assad regime" is untenable and voiced his belief that Russia might be willing to address the future leadership of Syria, in tones reminiscent of Kerry. Up to now, Assad has rejected any proposals that would see him leave power, contributing to an impasse that has prolonged Syria's suffering.

Earlier in the week, Syria's military had said it was halting combat operations in the south of Syria for four days, in advance of the new round of Russian-sponsored talks in Kazakhstan. That move covered the southern provinces of Daraa, Quneitra and Sweida. Syria's government briefly extended that unilateral cease-fire, which is now set to expire Saturday — a day before the U.S. and Russian deal was to take effect.

The U.S.-Russian cease-fire has no set end date, one U.S. official said, describing it as part of broader discussions with Moscow on lowering violence in Syria.

The agreement may also reflect Iran's increasingly prominent role in Syria.

Washington has been resistant to letting Iranian forces and their proxy militias gain strength in Syria's south, a position shared by Israel and Jordan. Friday's deal could help the Trump administration retain more of a say over who fills the power vacuum left behind as the Islamic State is routed from additional territory in Syria.

In recent weeks, U.S. forces have shot down a Syrian aircraft that got too close to American forces as well as Iranian-made drones. A renewed government offensive against Western-backed rebels and Islamic militants in the contested province of Daraa also is sparking tensions, and Iranian-backed Hezbollah fighters have shifted south to join the fight.

Israel has also struck Syrian military installations on several occasions in the past few weeks after shells landed into the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan Heights Golan Heights. Ahead of the deal, media reports in Israel have suggested unease at any arrangement that relies on Russia policing areas near its frontier.

Iran-Iraq-Syria Pipeline Countries
Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and Iraq, and now US

Qatar-Turkey Pipeline
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar, Turkey, UAE, Bahrain, formally US

Implications for Syria aside, the deal marks the biggest diplomatic achievement for the U.S. and Russia since Trump took office. The Russians have won the pipeline war, who backed the Iran/Syria/Iraq pipeline, and the US have now come to support that pipeline instead of the Saudi backed Qatar/Turkey pipeline through Syria. So, ultimately this is a win for President Trump which will win him points with the Anti-War Left lead by the Green Party, and the Anti-Islamic Extremism right lead by the Tea Party with in the GOP. This end of the Syrian civil war by proxy is a win for Russia in the fact that they have the pipeline they backed is going to be built, which gives the Russians a strategic geopolitical advantage over the EU and Israel now. The East has now geo-politically won a proxy war, headed off a take over of Ukraine, and China won its currency war with the US. We will see how it all plays out.

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Salama and Lederman reported from Washington. Associated Press writer Zeina Karam in Beirut, Lebanon, contributed to this report and Fox News World .

On Twitter, reach Vivian Salama at https://twitter.com/vmsalama , Josh Lederman at https://twitter.com/joshledermanAP and Ken Thomas at https://twitter.com/KThomasDC http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/07/07/ap-sources-us-russia-reach-deal-on-syria-ceasefire.html

The State of the Green Union (Eps 15) The Sheep Dog Series- Nina Turner

Green Party Candidate Joe Manchik for the 12th District of Ohio US House of Representatives

Joe Manchik moved to Ohio after he graduated from high school in Michigan to attend college at the Ohio Institute of Technology in 1971 and have been living in Ohio ever since then. He have also lived in Ohio’s 12th Congressional district since 1983. He first joined the Green Party when he voted for Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader in 1996 and have always voted for Green Party candidates running for office ever since. He first came to know of Ralph Nader and gained a lot of respect for this man when he took on the giant manufacturing corporation General Motors in the 1960s over the “Unsafe At Any Speed” Chevrolet Corvair automobile and have been following him ever since. Joe Manchik follows the 10 principles and the 4 pillars of the Green Party, and that is the platform he is running on.

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Joe Manchik (G-Ohio) is running for the 12th district of Ohio for the House of Representatives seat currently held by incumbent Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio). Joe Manchik will pursue these legislative goals the Green Party has for the country, the great state of Ohio, and its 12th district.

These are the 10 Principles that guide Joe Manchik in how he would govern for the 12th district of Ohio.











Vote for Joe Manchik and unseat Establishment Republican  Pat Tiberi, who is actively voting against the interests of his constituents. The Green Party is the party of the people, for the people, by the people. Please support Joe Manchik. He does not take corporate donations so please donate @ https://manchikforcongress.wordpress.com/donation-page/ All roads lead to Ohio, where elections are won or lost. Let's get this Green into office.


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Buy, Buy Bernie: The People’s Revolution Placeb

Written By Dustin Micheli

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Questioning the credibility, consistency and accountability of Sen. Bernie Sanders is not something I would have expected to see myself doing if I had been thinking of the possibilities a little more than a year ago.

My reasoning for doing so is that recently people have been beating a drum that is loud, but ringing hollow in its tone and depth of scope. That drum is the “Draft Bernie” movement.
To say I have bitter feelings from the recent presidential elections, especially the democratic primaries, would be putting it mildly. You see, I too was a Bernie supporter. From the time he announced his candidacy ( I created a local Facebook page that very day), until his failure to contest the rigged primaries and his subsequent politically correct backing of Hillary Clinton. Bernie himself gave us politics as usual when he had promised us bold changes and vision. The fact that he wouldn’t challenge an obviously rigged primary in order to facilitate a smoother campaign for HRC, and tried to shore up votes for someone who cheated us all, shows Bernie’s lack of consistency, credibility, and accountability. In my view, Bernie’s willingness to back Clinton for temporary political expediency is exactly the kind of maneuver that makes him unfit to lead any effective revolution for change.

My spouse and I supported Bernie in the ways we could, given we have two children and are a single income family. We were 2 of the 250,000 remarkable volunteers that made up the phenomenon that was the Sanders campaign. We talked about Bernie, chalked Bernie, donated money we could ill afford, walked for Bernie. We canvassed for Bernie, created Facebook groups, posted for Bernie, and handed out countless fliers. We bought Bernie paraphernalia and practically made our van a giant Bernie Revolution mobile advertisement. I even argued with rednecks about socialism for Bernie.
The reason I tell you this is to establish that we could “Feel the Bern” big time. So I hope you’ll understand that if you’re still an admirer or supporter of Bernie Sanders, this is as difficult for me to write as it might be for you to hear. If you are considering this new Bernie movement to be a good idea or time well spent, this is not an indictment of your values but an accounting of our collective purpose and energies.

The Bernie Sanders campaign ignited something deep within me as it did many of us. I thought we finally had a champion. A champion that I thought was the refined mirror image of my political ideals speaking to me from the floor of the Senate with a Brooklyn accent. I had long been an admirer of the good Senator and Bernie’s candidacy ignited something in me that had been waiting for a gust of wind to breathe life back into it. The fire it kindled burned as hot as a blacksmiths cauldron, refining and likewise purifying my most strongly held ideals and values. Among those emerging values was the sense of purpose and responsibility to stand up for those people and values that are most often disregarded or trampled upon. The need to push for and defend progressive ideals of hope for a better more peaceful future, to embrace and adopt bold solutions to our dire problems -economically, socially, geopolitically, and environmentally- became solidified for many of us.

People have asked me, “What should Bernie have done?” Well, I think he should have fought the good fight for us and contested the primary. He should have gone to the mat for us when it really counted. He could have taken the Green Party up on their offer and ran against Clinton and Trump on their ticket. (I still really think he would have won.) He should have done anything other than give up. Or at very least, not backed Hillary “Gold Standard” Clinton, the very kind of corporate establishment war monger that stands in the way of our progressive agenda and vision.

It doesn’t take a lot of mental gymnastics to land on the idea that perhaps Bernie should have contested the obviously biased and rigged primary, or made any effort to hold the DNC accountable for their fraud. It seems a bit more of a stretch, though, to accept Bernie’s parroting of the false establishment narrative about Russia hacking the elections, as well as his new rhetoric regarding Syria (a seeming reversal of his anti-regime change and intervention stance). The idea that Bernie could be a reliable member of, much less lead, any effective movement for change or revolution seems to be more of a leap than a stretch. Mounting another prospective or credible presidential campaign seems even less likely, especially considering Bernie has not made any indication of his willingness or want to do so. In many respects the “Draft Bernie” movement is a “Bernie or Bust” that doesn’t realize that it has already deflated.

I cannot attest to the placebo effect many seem to be getting from the continued personality cult of Bernie Sanders, other than to point out the obvious continuation of his abnormal and latent popularity. The placebo effect comes from a place and desire for change or relief from our political pains and ailments as they are. That people want and see the need for change and even revolution is encouraging, but to think Bernie might mount another credible campaign when he has so many inconsistencies to answer for, might be a bit more than anyone should expect of placebo or real medicine. The real solution, like much illness in physical health, lies in changing our political diet and exercising more, not trying to find different ways to disguise the symptoms.

Many thought they were joining a grassroots movement for bold change, but it went on to become the shoring up and sheep dogging of progressive voters to the point of coercion. The constant fear mongering chorus became a noisy, ignorant- “TRUMP BAD!”- guilt tripping progressives that wouldn’t fall in line. This tactic backfired, further highlighting the difference in values between establishment Democrats and progressive voters, which became a bigger elephant in the room than the 16 Republicans that had been running for the GOP nomination.

As the Republicans and Trump- still power drunk from their electoral wins across the country- go about the process of dismantling the traditional institutions of democracy that people depended on for recourse and redress of grievances, a deflated and defeated Democratic party must go about the process of damage control, trying to repair their spiraling and foreboding reputation before the mid term elections in 2018. Bernie Sanders has wisely been gradually distancing himself from the Democratic party as well, recently all but walking back his parroting of blaming Russia for supposed influence in US elections. He put the blame of their loss nearly squarely on the shoulders of the DNC and their failure to have a message for the people or differentiate themselves in any substantial way. He even went so far as to point out that across the country Democrats lost almost 1000 elected seats, something that could hardly be blamed on either Donald Trump, the Electoral College or “Russia, Russia, Russia!” . Bernie was recently quoted in a CNN interview saying “ The Democratic brand is pretty bad.” This coming from the most powerful fundraising entity ever to run for office.

The importance of highlighting the differences between the values of the corporate democrats (and the donor class they serve), and the growing progressive populace movement can not be more emphasized. Issues such as universal healthcare, net neutrality, raising the minimum wage to a living wage, breaking up the big banks, ending foreign wars abroad, reinvesting in infrastructure, and affordable and improved education are all examples of things most people want, but can’t get either of our corporate friendly political parties to pursue. This has caused us to fall drastically behind much of the rest of the world in many major areas. The corporate-friendly neo liberal Democrats like to pitch themselves as pragmatists, but they want to continue pragmatically down the same failed path that we have been on for more than 40yrs. On many of these issues, I believe Senator Bernie Sanders is still a valuable and reliable ally; on others not so much. The most critical thing I think Bernie can do is continue to represent the people of Vermont and try to be prepared to vote for or sponsor important progressive legislation in the future as he has done before. Beyond that, I believe any movement behind Bernie is doomed to repeat its mistakes and cannot be rationally sustained without addressing a massive load of hypocrisy, which would probably conclude in the same disappointing anticlimactic way, causing further dismay and apathy among the populace.

The nonsensical “Resistance” movement, much like its coopted “ Draft Bernie” movement, is simply more sheep dogging being done by the Democratic establishment to shore up support- and deflect attention from things like the class action lawsuit against them. (The lawsuit has demonstrated the fact that they rigged the primary and that they don’t have a reasonable defense to even sell the public.) This also serves as a deflection from the fact that neo liberals trying to manipulate and scare voters into submission only worked so much and inevitably gave us Donald Trump. The AHCA or OBAMACARE is another example of neo liberal policies pulling the policies to the right while derailing the legitimate concerns and needs of the populace for a healthcare system. This became more of a boondoggle for the pharmaceutical and insurance industries than a legitimate health care plan designed to help actual people. With the United States ranking 37th on the World Health Organization index chart, but number one in cost, it’s something almost any politician could run and win on considering the level of bankruptcy our current healthcare system has caused average Americans across the country. This alone highlights who is calling the shots- and its not the voters or the public.

In the end, all I ask any of you to do is vote your values not your fears. Abandon partisan corporate political parties and the false dichotomy that is our two party political system. Get involved and care. Find and refine your political and social values if not your activism and identity. To me, the real revolutionaries and activists seem to be represented well by the Green Parties Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, (whose platform is arguably the most progressive and pragmatic in the country). Considering our immediate need for response to all issues, especially climate change and pollution mitigation, I can’t think of more active vocal proponents of real change out there. Otherwise, Tulsi Gabbard has become a very active and vocal opponent of our aggressive foreign policy and deserves consideration if not credit for being willing to challenge the powerful establishment from within on things like war and arming terrorists.

Those fires that burned so hot and intensely for revolution and change can refine us and our values. We must let them, so as to find our true place and purpose before its too late. In the end I can thank Bernie, if not support him, for breathing new life into my ideals and hope for the future. The resulting disappointment in him and his candidacy does not overshadow or dissuade my resolve and mobilization, nor should it for anyone else. After all, our values were purified by the fire that we had to endure to support his candidacy to begin with. All is not lost, Feel the Bern..
Food for thought.
Truth, Activism, Bananas.