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Cohen: Canada’s absolutist foreign policy
Jul22

Cohen: Canada’s absolutist foreign policy

Oh, to be Canada in the world today, the country that is right about everything. If one were looking for a word to describe our foreign policy this anxious summer, it would be absolutist. Our view of the world is black and white, right and wrong. It suggests extra-sensory powers of perception. It is not new to call Canada a moral superpower. The...

Wesley Wark: The intelligence war over Ukraine
Jul22

Wesley Wark: The intelligence war over Ukraine

The downing of Malaysia Air Lines flight 17 over separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine bears some striking resemblances to a similarly shocking downing of another civilian passenger jet 30 years ago. On Sept. 1, 1983, a Korean Air Lines jet, KAL 007, on a flight from New York to Seoul, strayed from its assigned flight path and was shot down by a...

MH17: EU imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine
Jul22

MH17: EU imposes new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine

European foreign ministers stopped short, at least for now, of more forceful sanctions that would hit full sectors of the Russian economy. …read more Source: Toronto...

Ukraine votes to call up more military reserves to protect border
Jul22

Ukraine votes to call up more military reserves to protect border

Support among Ukrainians for joining the European Union and NATO has increased in the past few months …read more Source: The Globe and...

Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Hold Putin to account
Jul22

Oksana Bashuk Hepburn: Hold Putin to account

The downing of the Malaysian passenger plane is a dire lesson for the world: Vladimir Putin’s aggression can reach us. He is responsible for the deaths of the Malaysian flight passengers but so are the rest of us. We have been emboldening him for years by tip-toeing around his aggression in Nagorno-Karabakh, Moldova, Chechnya, Georgia. Our...

MH17: Crash conspiracies dominate Russian headlines
Jul22

MH17: Crash conspiracies dominate Russian headlines

An assassination attempt against Russian President Vladimir Putin. A desperate ploy to draw the West into the battle for Ukraine’s east. A botched mission to commit mass murder against Russian citizens. …read more Source: CTV...

Putin pledges ‘everything’ in Russia’s power to aid MH17 probe
Jul22

Putin pledges ‘everything’ in Russia’s power to aid MH17 probe

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will do ‘everything in its power’ to facilitate an investigation into the Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crash, but accused Kyiv and the West of escalating the conflict in the region. …read more Source: CTV...

Putin to push Ukrainian separatists to allow MH17 crash investigation
Jul22

Putin to push Ukrainian separatists to allow MH17 crash investigation

President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday Russia would use its influence with separatists in eastern Ukraine to allow a full investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 but said the West must put pressure on Kyiv to end hostilities. …read more Source:...

Malaysians protest at Russian Embassy: ‘We want justice’
Jul22

Malaysians protest at Russian Embassy: ‘We want justice’

Protesters marched on the Russian Embassy in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday, waving placards and demanding justice for victims of the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down over Ukraine last week. …read more Source: CTV...

Train with MH17 bodies arrives in Ukrainian-held city
Jul22

Train with MH17 bodies arrives in Ukrainian-held city

The remains of the victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash arrived in territory held by the Ukrainian government on Tuesday on their way to the Netherlands, after delays and haphazard treatment of the bodies that put pressure on European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels to impose tougher economic sanctions on Russia. …read more Source:...