Section: US & Canada
Britain Sounds Allies Out About Invoking NATO Treaty
The clock is ticking towards the British-set deadline of midnight Tuesday for the Kremlin to explain why a Russian developed military-grade nerve agent was used to poison a former Russian double agent and his daughter in a small cathedral town in south England. No one in the British government is holding their breath for a Russian response — or...
Security Minister: Serb ‘Fear-Mongering’ Ahead of Bosnia Vote Raises Concern
Bosnia’s autonomous Serb entity is “fear-mongering” to undermine the country’s integrity by organizing nationalist paramilitary groups and disproportionately arming the region’s police, the national security minister said. Secessionist pressures in the Serb Republic, set up as one of two autonomous regions as part of...
Vladimir Loves Hillary
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism. Vladimir Putin’s hatred for Hillary Clinton is one of the foundational myths of the election rigging conspiracy theory. Why else would the Russians risk a war to rig an...
Rex Tillerson Warns That The Poisoning of a Former Russian Spy in Britain Will ‘Trigger a Response’
(ABOARD A U.S. GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cast the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain as part of a “certain unleashing of activity” by Russia that the United States is struggling to understand. He warned that the poisoning would “certainly trigger a response.” Tillerson, echoing the British government’s...
Globalists vs. Nationalists: Who Owns the Future?
Robert Bartley, the late editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal, was a free trade zealot who for decades championed a five-word amendment to the Constitution: “There shall be open borders.” Bartley accepted what the erasure of America’s borders and an endless influx or foreign peoples and goods would mean for his country. Said...
White House won’t blame Russia for attack on former spy, but Rex Tillerson will
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took a bold stance at odds with the White House Monday, specifically pointing a finger at Russia for the poisoning of a former Russian double agent and his daughter in the UK last week. “This is a really egregious act. It appears that it clearly came from Russia,” Tillerson said in a statement. “Whether it...
Tillerson: Alleged Russia Attack on British Soil ‘Really Egregious Act’
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is backing up British Prime Minister Theresa May’s assertion that Russia is behind the attack on a former Russian spy in England, saying it certainly “will trigger a response.” “This is a really egregious act. It appears that it clearly came from Russia,” Tillerson said Monday en route to Cape Verde....
Air of corruption hovers over RNC finance team as legal liabilities explode
Everyone remembers last month’s implosion of Republican National Committee finance chair Steve Wynn, who resigned due to what he called “an avalanche of negative publicity” over sexual harassment charges. Well, now two other gents on the RNC finance leadership team are embroiled in some legal trouble of their own: Michael Cohen, Donald...
Why some Jews in Russia don’t think Putin’s comment about them was anti-Semitic
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, left, and Alexander Boroda, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities, during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Dec. 28, 2016. (Alexei Druzhinin/AFP/Getty Images) (JTA) — When Boruch Gorin, a well-known rabbi in Moscow, traveled for the first time from Russia...
Putin Suggests Jews, Ethnic Groups May Have Meddled in US Election
Russian President Vladimir Putin is suggesting that Jews, Ukrainians or Tatars might have meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, but again is rejecting Kremlin interference. In a wide-ranging interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, Putin dismissed the conclusion of the U.S. intelligence community that he ordered a campaign to...
