KW: In the words of John Pilger, “never before has the  world been so precarious as the one in which we live at the moment”. And yet Trump invites Putin to meet him in the White House after the expulsion of Russian diplomats and more sanctions. For what purpose to assissinate him or do we not yet understand Trump

Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent on March 4 on a park bench in Salisbury, England. Skripal had been a Russian double agent, a spy who turned over 300 names of Russian spies to British intelligence from 1995 to 2004. He was (not so surprisingly) arrested in Russia in 2004 and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. He was released in a spy-swap in 2010, settled in the UK and became a British citizen. More

Source: The Skripal Poisonings and the Ongoing Vilification of Putin