Section: US & Canada
Steele's Ridiculous Romney-Russia Memo
More from Jane Mayer’s ridiculous Christopher Steele article. This is the tidbit that’s getting a good deal of play in the media. One subject that Steele is believed to have discussed with Mueller’s investigators is a memo that he wrote in late November, 2016, after his contract with Fusion had ended. This memo, which did not...
Ukraine Authorities Urged To Ensure Safety Of Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is calling on Ukrainian authorities to investigate allegations that police attacked journalists covering a protest in the capital last weekend. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Income Inequality in the U.S. Is Even Worse Than You’ve Been Led to Believe
Click here for reuse options! Data show the country is failing its lower and middle-income earners miserably. The more the ultra-rich prosper, the less they’re burdened with taxes, the greater the benefits for society as a whole. If you’re familiar with Republican economic theory of the past 40 years, you’ve probably heard this...
Bumbling Trump campaign staffers like Sam Nunberg are haunting the Trump presidency
Trump didn’t hire the best people. He got mired in the Russia scandal as a result. Starting Monday afternoon and going well into the evening, America watched a man melt down on live national television. Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg repeatedly called into national television stations, most notably CNN and MSNBC, to vent about a...
Name Your Poison — Exotic Toxins Fell Kremlin Foes
The apparent poisoning in Britain of a Russian man who spied for the United Kingdom has refocused attention on toxic attacks carried out against Kremlin foes. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kremlin Ties of Italy’s Populists Prompts US Alarm
U.S. officials are scrambling to assess how this past Sunday’s Italian election results may impact future relations between Rome and Washington. The prospects of euro-skeptic populist parties that have strong ideological ties with the Kremlin forming Italy’s next government or dominating a broader governing arrangement has prompted...
Jason Kenney has everything to lose
Jason Kenney at the Manning Networking Conference 2018 in Ottawa. (Dave Chan) The next chapter of Jason Kenney’s life began when the last one decisively ended, on federal election night 2015. Dozens of Conservatives held an impromptu wake for their government at the James Joyce Irish Pub in downtown Calgary. It was a favourite...
Canada to bring up North Korea, Venezuela and Ukraine at Munich Conference
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has a long list of world crises she would like to discuss with her counterparts at the Munich Security Conference in Germany this weekend, according to Canadian officials. The North Korean nuclear crisis, the situation in Venezuela, Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its continued support for...
Ukraine: Allies say Saakashvili detained, faces deportation
Allies of Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president-turned opposition leader in Ukraine, say he was detained by masked men who they think acted on behalf of Ukrainian authorities. …read more Source: FOX...
Saakashvili Detained In Kyiv, Reports Say May Be Deported
Associates of opposition politician Mikheil Saakashvili say he has been detained by “kidnappers” in Kyiv and voiced concern that he may be deported from Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
