Section: US & Canada
Immigrant grandparents come to US to baby-sit
When Rita Shekhtman came to America from Ukraine in 1991, her two grandchildren were already living with their parents in Northeast Philadelphia. She and her husband arrived to take care … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Immigrant grandparents come to US to baby-sit
When Rita Shekhtman came to America from Ukraine in 1991, her two grandchildren were already living with their parents in Northeast Philadelphia. She and her husband arrived to take care … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
Hearts ache, anger surges after Siberian mall fire kills 64
A woman lays flowers at the Russian Embassy, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 28, 2018, to pay tribute to victims of Sunday’s fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. Writing on the poster reads: “Kemerovo, we… …read more Source: The Bismarck...
How Online Propaganda Became Mainstream
Click here for reuse options! Snyder’s new book asserts that we forget the past at our own peril (and that the robots are winning). After the 2016 election, Timothy Snyder, a Yale historian specializing in totalitarian regimes in eastern Europe, wrote a heralded pamphlet titled On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Snyder...
DARPA’s Mad Scientists Have a Sneaky Plan to Win the next Big War
Michael Peck Security, North America A computerized staff officer. The art of generalship is to get inside the enemy’s head. From Caesar to Napoleon to Rommel, the best commanders have a knack for deducing the enemy’s plans and then moving to exploit that insight. At the same time, a staple of science fiction is the omniscient...
How the Great War could reign on Trump’s parade
Many of President Donald Trump’s critics fear he will start World War III.But he may bring good news for devotees of World War I.This coming Veterans Day, the weekend selected for Trump’s $30 million military parade, is also the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War on Nov. 11, 1918. That’s the...
‘The Ball Is Very Much in the Russian Court’
On Thursday, it was Americans who learned they were being kicked out of Russia. On Friday, it was Europeans. Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned the ambassadors of several European nations and ordered the expulsion of their diplomats; their number precisely mirrored the number of Russian diplomats expelled by Western nations on Monday. In...
U.S. Calls On Ukraine To Repeal Law Placing Undue ‘Burdens’ On Civil Society Groups
The U.S. State Department is calling on Ukraine to repeal a law that it says has put undue burdens on civil society organizations and is for that reason discouraging their work. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Facebook’s Ideological Imperialism
It’s mostly forgotten now, but for a time, expanding the reach of social networks—making Facebook, Twitter, and others like it as large as possible—was an avowed foreign-policy goal of the United States. That is, at least, what the secretary of state said in the early days of this decade, in a speech at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.“New...
Why Is Trump Turning Against Russia Now?
No single stand has hobbled Donald Trump’s presidency more than his attitude toward Russia.During the presidential campaign, he conspicuously praised Vladimir Putin, and refused to condemn his seizure of Crimea. Trump also publicly called for Russia to release emails hacked from Hillary Clinton, something his aides said was a joke....
