The Duran Quick Take: Episode 302.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the debunked CNN report that the CIA had "successfully extracted from Russia one of its highest-level covert sources inside the Russian government."  The New York Times reported that the "longtime source landed an influential position that came with access to the highest level of the Kremlin."

Russian media outlets reported that the "Russian spy" could be someone named Oleg Smolenkov, who supposedly worked for the government. Elena Krylova, Spokesperson for the head of the Russian Presidential Administrative Directorate, told TASS that Mr. Smolenkov "never worked for the Administrative Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation."

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 301.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the massive 25 year energy investment deal between Iran and China that marks a seismic shift in the global hydrocarbons sector.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 300.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the state of the Russian economy under Vladimir Putin, five years after the first sanctions were imposed on Russia for the accession of Crimea to the Russian Federation.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 299.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest news in the Epstein scandal where a lawyer for the alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein told a judge that hundreds of names of people associated with "now deceased finance mogul" should be made public in documents that are currently sealed in a defamation lawsuit involving Epstein close associate and alleged handler Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 298.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris try to decode what UK PM Boris Johnson is planning to do with Brexit following a House of Common's coup against his no-deal strategy.

The UK, and the entire world, hangs on Boris' next move.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 297.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam's withdrawal of the extradition bill that sparked three months of protests.

Lam and the Chinese mainland are hoping for an end to crisis, but protesters appear to be digging in with more demands.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 296.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Argentina elections set to take place on October 27th.

Argentina has imposed capital controls as the country is on the brink of its 9th default. Argentina's Presidential front-runner has openly blamed, soon to be ECB head and former IMF chief Christine Lagarde, for the country's imminent default by stating "the IMF is guilty".

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 295.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest German state elections where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU and coalition partners SPD managed to barely hold on to power in Saxony and Brandenburg.

What were once considered strongholds of the CDU and SPD, have now seen a surge of support for Alternative for Germany (AfD), which placed a strong second in both regions.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 294.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Moscow meeting between Putin and Erdogan.

The Presidents of Russia and Turkey agreed to "normalize" the situation in Idlib, Syria, but the details as to how this would happened were not shared with the press and media, leaving many to wonder what this means for Turkey and its relationship with the US and NATO.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 293.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Department of Justice's (DOJ) inspector general report that states fired FBI Director James Comey mishandled classified information. Michael Horowitz reported, in great detail, that James Comey leaked the contents of a classified memo to his legal team, first orally and then by providing a copy of the document. The memo’s content was also leaked to a media organization by Comey's lawyers.

IG Michael Horowitz declared Comey's conduct so egregious that it created a “dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees — and the many thousands more former FBI employees — who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information.”

Attorney General William Barr and his team of investigators are now sifting through documents trying to figure out what the Obama administration was up to during the 2016 US election.

Via Zerohedge:

Here Is The List Of Obama-Era Russiagate Docs Sought By AG Barr

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-28/sperry-list-obama-era-russiagate-docs-sought-ag-barr