Section: Bangladesh
How to protect democracy from digital authoritarians’ toolbox
How to protect democracy from digital authoritarians’ toolbox DemDigest March 3, 2020 The alliances, cooperation, and coordination that comprise the liberal world order depend on sufficient public political support and trust within and across democracies, notes Michael Colaresi, William S. Dietrich II Professor of Political Science Research...
Ukraine’s prime minister submits resignation again
Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk submitted his resignation for a second time after reports that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy might be gearing up to sack him, the Ukrainian news outlet NV reported on Friday night. …read more Source::...
Clashes, jeers and burning tires greet coronavirus evacuees in Ukraine
Residents of a central Ukrainian town clashed with police, burned tires and hurled projectiles at a convoy of buses carrying evacuees from China’s Hubei province, quarantined in case of the coronavirus, to a sanatorium on Thursday. …read more Source::...
Authoritarians Are Always Gangsters
Authoritarians Are Always Gangsters Joe Conason February 15, 2020 National Memo Authoritarian governments almost always operate in a style that resembles organized crime outfits. Despite their ostentatious populism, such regimes exist to enrich thuggish rulers and enable corruption in high places. The Trump administration is a perfect example....
THE PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
THE PROSECUTION OF PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP How the House Democrats, in the face of certain defeat, presented the case for impeachment. By Robert P. Baird February 7, 2020 The New Yorker The House floor managers in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump knew they needed to reach two audiences: the hundred senators present at the proceedings, and the...
Diplomat at centre of Trump impeachment retires from state department
The US ambassador whose abrupt recall from Ukraine helped lead to President Donald Trump’s impeachment has retired from the State Department, a person familiar with her plans confirmed on Friday. …read more Source::...
Trump wanted aid to Ukraine frozen until it helped on probes of political rivals: NYTimes
US President Donald Trump told a then-top aide in August he wanted to freeze security aid to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported on Sunday. …read more Source::...
‘Bangladesh is NOT Ukraine’: Pompeo accuses reporter of ‘shameful’ lying
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused a National Public Radio reporter of lying to him and violating “the basic rules of journalism and decency” after she said Pompeo repeatedly cursed at her following a testy interview. …read more Source::...
‘Bangladesh is NOT Ukraine’: Pompeo accuses reporter of ‘shameful’ lying
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday accused a National Public Radio reporter of lying to him and violating “the basic rules of journalism and decency” after she said Pompeo repeatedly cursed at her following a testy interview. …read more Source::...
Democrats launch first salvo at Trump trial, warn that world is watching
Democrats accused President Donald Trump at the start of his impeachment trial on Wednesday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America’s global prestige will suffer if the US Senate acquits him. …read more Source::...
