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Social Security Numbers Of Every Federal Employee Stolen In Data Breach, Union Says
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk (second from left) speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2015. Yatsenyuk met with Republican lawmakers while visiting Washington. U.S. Capitol Police gather after a suspicious package was found forcing a partial evacuation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and of a hearing of the Senate...
Putin, once critical of Stalin, now embraces Soviet dictator’s tactics
Only six years ago, President Vladimir Putin visited the Polish port of Gdansk, birthplace of the Solidarity movement that threw off Soviet domination, and reassured his Eastern European neighbors that Russia had only friendly intentions. Putin spoke harshly that day of the notorious World War II-era pact that former Soviet leader Josef Stalin...
The Global Struggle to Respond to the Worst Refugee Crisis in Generations
Refugees and Displaced 38 million displaced inside their countries 30 million 16.7 million refugees* in foreign countries The New York Times|Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Center. *Most recent refugee data for 2013. Syria and Iraq Kurdish women and children from Syria at a Turkish military checkpoint near Kobani, a Syrian town badly...
Fighting Golden Dawn | Jacobin
After five months of negotiations between the Greek government and the European “institutions,” things may be finally boiling over. The dramatic situation has captured international headlines and perhaps overshadowed domestic efforts at reform by the Syriza government. Jacobin recently sat down with Dimosthenis Papadatos, a Syriza central...
DNA Deciphers Roots of Modern Europeans
Carl Zimmer MATTER For centuries, archaeologists have reconstructed the early history of Europe by digging up ancient settlements and examining the items that their inhabitants left behind. More recently, researchers have been scrutinizing something even more revealing than pots, chariots and swords: DNA. On Wednesday in the journal Nature, two...
CIA chief in ‘secret Israel talks on Iran’
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G7 leaders urge tough line on Russia at start of summit| Reuters
KRUEN, Germany Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations backed a tough line toward Moscow at the start of a summit in the Bavarian Alps, with U.S. President Barack Obama urging the gathering to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Host Angela Merkel greeted Obama in the idyllic Alpine village of Kruen under blue skies,...
President Vladimir Putin tells West not to fear Russia
Russia is accused of sending troops and armour to Ukraine – a charge it rejects Russia is not a threat to Nato, President Vladimir Putin says. “Only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack Nato,” Mr Putin told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. The Western alliance is bolstering its...
Iran Looks to Replace Russian Oil and Gas in Europe
Getty Images As Europe looks for alternatives to Russian gas, Iran could provide Europe “new routes” Azerbaijan’s energy minister, Natig Aliyev, says the gas pipeline originating in his country can also transport fuel to Europe through the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) from Iran and other neighboring nations in both the...
New World Re-Ordering | The Bullet No. 1125
What should we call the current era? Post-everything? Or perhaps, the interregnum? Whatever the name it should be given, the current period is characterized by neoliberal trans-nationalization. In addition, U.S. hegemony has been under question since the beginning of this period. In fact, the Empire is no longer U.S.-American and a change in...
