Section: US & Canada
When Mueller Worked With Manafort’s Dictator Client
Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastAlmost exactly five years ago, Bob Mueller met Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, then a client of Paul Manafort. At the time, the meeting drew little attention—just at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Yes, “Islam Is Part of Our History”
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans recently chaired a roundtable with ten Muslim imams from six EU Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy and The Netherlands). Afterwards Timmermans announced that “the Commission is strongly...
Mueller obtained a new search warrant against Manafort last month, and it could signal a huge shift in the Russia investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller may be shifting his focus from Paul Manafort’s Ukraine lobbying work to potential collusion with Russia. …read more Source: Business...
Canada expels Russian embassy spokesman for ‘sharing scurrilous stories’ targeting Freeland
The Russian embassy spokesperson in Ottawa who was responsible for the mission’s Twitter account is one of four Russian diplomats being expelled from Canada, Radio Canada International has learned. Two separate sources have confirmed to RCI that Kirill Kalinin, who was also the first secretary of the embassy’s political section, is...
Time to Turn Up the Heat on Putin
The West’s lenient attitude toward Russian acts of aggression have served only to embolden Russian President Vladimir Putin. Refreshingly, on the heels of the recent poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, there has been a uniform response. In fact, the world may have just witnessed “the...
It looks like Paul Manafort’s “Hail Mary” case against Mueller is going down in flames
“I don’t really understand what is left of your case.” A judge on Wednesday voiced serious doubts about former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s lawsuit against special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. Manafort’s case is widely regarded as a Hail Mary move to avoid criminal charges. Mueller, who is leading the...
British Left to Defend Poison Allegations After Missteps
Sixty U.S. diplomats expelled by the Kremlin in the escalating dispute over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain were seen leaving the U.S. embassy in Moscow Thursday. Their departure from the Russian capital came as British ministers faced awkward questions about whether they had blundered by over-stating their case...
A Sinclair national correspondent frequently interviewed Alex Jones for Russian-funded TV
Alex Jones on “Infowars” (Credit: YouTube/The Alex Jones Channel) Before she became a national correspondent for Sinclair Broadcast Group, Kristine Frazao worked for the Kremlin-backed network RT (formerly Russia Today), where she interviewed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on more than 20 occasions. During those friendly interviews,...
Lithuanian FM Calls Russia’s Baltic Sea Missile Tests Part of ‘Military Hooliganism’
Lithuania’s top diplomat said Russia’s live-fire military exercises adjacent to NATO territorial waters of the Baltic Sea are a direct military threat in the guise of routine naval drills. Russia on Wednesday began the three days of missile tests to the alarm of Latvia, in particular, a NATO member who says the air-and-sea target...
CPJ Urges Ukraine Prosecutors To Return Azerbaijani Opposition Journalist’s Passport
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Ukrainian authorities to “immediately” return the Dutch passport of a journalist who fled his homeland of Azerbaijan a decade ago, and stop any extradition procedures against him. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
