The Duran Quick Take: Episode 247.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the surprising response, beyond threatening rhetoric, out of the European Union over Turkey's violations of Cypriot territorial waters related to offshore drilling operations.

The EU has agreed to bring financial and political sanctions against Turkey after repeat warnings over the past weeks.

European Union officials on Monday agreed political and financial sanctions against Turkey after Ankara went ahead with drilling operations off Cyprus despite repeated warnings, European diplomats said. — AFP

EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told reporters following a meeting of foreign ministers that "the conclusions on Turkey have been adopted and they will be made public in the coming hours."

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 246.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest "Russia meddling" globalist attack aimed at Itay's de facto leader Matteo Salvini.

Salvini is now flirting with the possibility of a snap election before voters as the scandal that has become known as Italy's version of “Russiagate” continues to make headlines across the main stream media.

Speculation that the government could collapse has intensified with Salvini in non-stop campaign mode, routinely criticizing his coalition ally in the populist, anti-establishment Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 246.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the latest "Russia meddling" globalist attack aimed at Itay's de facto leader Matteo Salvini.

Salvini is now flirting with the possibility of a snap election before voters as the scandal that has become known as Italy's version of “Russiagate” continues to make headlines across the main stream media.

Speculation that the government could collapse has intensified with Salvini in non-stop campaign mode, routinely criticizing his coalition ally in the populist, anti-establishment Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 245.

RT CrossTalk host Peter Lavelle and The Duran’s Alex Christoforou discuss the ANTIFA terrorist who was killed Saturday by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center.  was seen in a recent CNN program that critics say glorified a radical, left-wing movement.

Willem Van Spronsen, 69, sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote, "I am Antifa," and now he has now been martyred by ANTIFA members, while CNN broadcast and promoted a program that glorified the fascist radical ANTIFA member.

Van Spronsen appears to have been part of a May 5 episode of CNN’s “United Shades of America” with W. Kamau Bell.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 244.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the delivery of Russian S400 systems to Turkey.

On July 12th, Turkey received the first shipment of the Russian S-400 air defense systems. Since then, cargo flights from Russia have been arriving on Mürted Air Base in the capital Ankara.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 243.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris the Robin Tilbrook - English Democrats Brexit court battle that has now moved on to the appeal process.

Tilbrook and his team of legal experts argue that the UK has effectively left the European Union on March 29th 2019, and the October 31st extension granted by Brussels in order to work out some an amended Brexit deal is null and invalid.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 242.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris provide some insight and context as to the history and backstory of Robert Maxwell and his youngest daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, who ended up to be intimately connected to Jeffery Epstein.

Robert Maxwell rose from a World War 2 hero, to UK publishing mogul and possible triple spy. His daughter Ghislaine may have been the glue that connected the London and New York socialite circles where Epstein operated his sex traffic network.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 241.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the final nail in Robert Mueller's report on Trump-Russia collusion.

The latest ruling by U.S. Judge Dabney Friedrich, ordering Mueller to stop pushing stories about Russian troll farms connected to Putin, interfering in the US election process, explains why Mueller's testimony to Congress has been pushed back by one week.

It appears that the Democrats, in collusion with Robert Mueller, have to now compose a different script of lies, now that a court order has shut down one of the main pillars of the Russiagate hoax.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 241.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Saturday Yellow vest protests, which resulted in violent clashes with French police on Bastille Day.

Police fired tear gas at protesters during a tense standoff in Paris following the annual military parade, where French President Macron was booed and jeered by french citizens as he drove down the Champs-Elysees.

The Duran Quick Take: Episode 240.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the start and stop progression of trade talks ,which appear to be leading towards an amicable separation, both economic and political, between the United States and China.