Section: US & Canada
Former Trump campaign chief faces arraignment in Virginia
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is scheduled for arraignment in a northern Virginia courthouse on charges including tax evasion and bank fraud. The grand jury indictment in the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, accuses Paul Manafort of hiding from the Internal Revenue Service tens of millions of...
Finland developing horrific jumping land mine to deter Russian or other land invasions
Finland shares a 833 mile border and a difficult history with Russia, and following Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, it has stepped up military spending. …read more Source: Business...
Europe Split on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline as US Warns Against Dependence on Russian Gas
A number of eastern European states have ramped up their opposition to a new gas pipeline linking Russia with Germany. The Nord Stream 2 project will bring Russian gas directly to Western Europe, but critics say it will increase dependence on Russia and enrich its state-owned energy firms, at a time when Moscow stands accused of undermining...
Britain Weighing Its Options in Poisoning of Russians
The tip-off came from the British government itself that Downing Street had no stomach for a fight over Ukraine and Russia’s takeover of Crimea. Four years ago when the European Union and the United States were bracing themselves to punish Russia and were debating what sanctions to impose, a British official allowed a note detailing the...
Tillerson, Russia’s Lavrov circle each other in Africa
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — They could have run into each other sipping coffee in the lobby, perhaps at the bar at Ethiopia’s finest hotel. But U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov don’t appear destined to meet. The top American and Russian diplomats are warily circling each other in...
Is Donald Trump Fueling a Mass Extinction of Democracy Across the Planet?
The warning signs are there, cautions “How Democracies Die” co-author Steven Levitsky. Earlier this week, during a freewheeling speech to Republican donors at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump cracked the following joke about Chinese leader Xi Jinping: “He’s now president for life. President for life. No, he’s great. And...
The National Endowment for (Meddling in) Democracy
“They’re meddling in our politics!” That’s the war cry of outraged Clintonites and neocons, who seem to think election interference is something that Russians do to us and we never, ever do to them. But meddling in other countries has been a favorite Washington pastime ever since William McKinley vowed to “Christianize” the...
Mueller’s focus falls on meeting in Seychelles
By Devlin Barrett, Sari Horwitz and Rosalind S. Helderman | Washington Post WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller has gathered evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before the inauguration of Donald Trump was an effort to establish a back channel between the incoming administration and the Kremlin — apparently contradicting...
Mueller gathering evidence Team Trump sought secret back channel to Kremlin at Seychelles meeting
The Washington Post is reporting that special counsel Robert Mueller is gathering evidence that the Seychelles meeting in January 2017 involving a U.A.E. adviser and Trump-connected Erik Prince was aimed at creating a secret back-channel between the incoming Trump administration and Russia. The U.A.E. adviser, George Nader, is now reportedly...
Despite the Bluster, Russia Is Not 10 Feet Tall
Daniel R. DePetris Security, Eurasia Today, everything and anything related to Russia in one way or another is an all-consuming affair. Early 1950’s America was a bad time to be a supporter of the Soviet Union or an associate of the Communist Party. Even a mere whiff of being in cahoots with a Russian could get you hauled before Sen. Joseph...
