Section: US & Canada
Trump appointees sought to alter CDC scientific reports so they don’t contradict or undermine the president
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is shown Sunday, March 15, 2020, in Atlanta. AP Photo/John Bazemore An email obtained by Politico shows a Trump political appointee accusing career scientists at the CDC of undermining the president’s messaging on COVID-19. “CDC to me appears to be writing hit pieces on the...
UN assembly approves pandemic resolution; US, Israel object
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a wide-ranging resolution on tackling the coronavirus pandemic Friday over objections from the United States and Israel, which protested a successful last-minute Cuban amendment that strongly urged countries to oppose any unilateral economic, financial or trade sanctions. The...
Treasury Department Sanctions Ukrainian Lawmaker Who Met With Giuliani
The Trump administration announced sanctions Thursday against a Ukrainian lawmaker who met last year with President Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and has pushed for a corruption investigation into the son of former Vice President Joe Biden. The Treasury Department accused Andriy Derkach of waging a pro-Kremlin disinformation...
Rudy Giuliani and His Ukraine Ally Sprint Away from Their ‘Russian Agent’ Pal
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyPresident Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and a key Ukrainian ally in their plot to smear Former Vice President Joe Biden have both tried to distance themselves from collaborator Andriy Derkach after he was sanctioned and outed as an “ at The Daily Beast. …read more Source:: The Daily...
Pandemic Upends Annual Ukraine Pilgrimage for Hasidic Sect
For Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, this year would have marked his 37th consecutive visit to Uman, Ukraine, for Rosh Hashana — the Jewish new year which falls this year on September 18-20. The town, located 200 km south of Kyiv, is the burial place of the 18th-century tzaddik, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, who founded the Breslov sect of Hasidism. Up...
Commentary: Check out the left-wing lawyers who were helping the unelected bureaucrats who sought to take down President Trump
One of the attorneys for the anonymous whistleblower that sparked a presidential impeachment kept a lid on his client’s identity as best he could, but kept no such secret about his own intentions — as Mark Zaid openly called for a “coup” in 2017. The whistleblower’s other lawyer in 2019, Andrew Bajaj, also tweeted in 2017,...
Belarusian leader set to visit Russia as protests continue
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Belarusian authorities detained scores of demonstrators Friday while seeking to end more than a month of protests against the country’s authoritarian president, who is set to visit Russia to help shore up his hold on power after 26 years in office. Protesters in Belarus have spent a month denouncing the results of the...
US Sanctions 4 for Russia-linked Interference in November Presidential Election
The United States on Thursday sanctioned four Russian-linked operatives, accusing them of trying to meddle in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.The sanctioned individuals are Andrii Derkach, a Ukrainian member of Parliament tied to Russian intelligence, and three other Russian-based operatives connected to the Internet Research Agency troll...
Rudy Has Been Playing Footsie With Sanctioned ‘Active Russian Agent’ For Months
The Ukrainian MP sanctioned by the Treasury today for interfering in the 2020 election has had a long streak of cooperation with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, and has been peddling information to the GOP for years. Andrii Derkach met with Rudy Giuliani at least twice during period of time in which the Treasury says Derkach was waging “a covert...
Is There a Recipe for Democratic Success?
In the aftermath of the Second World War, many Western intellectuals doubted that Germany could become a democratic, civilized nation again. Yet, in less than a generation, the Germans did it by adopting a federal constitution carefully constraining those close to levers of power, engineering an economic miracle, and holding many (though not all)...
