Section: US & Canada
A Mafia State Within a Totalitarian Society
It is a skill, actually, to make someone feel as though they are drowning in words. If you’ve ever read a transcript of a Donald Trump interview, you know what the experience is like. Next-level incoherence is disorienting—and can be oddly powerful.The American-Russian journalist Masha Gessen has thought a lot about Trump’s rambling...
Ukraine ‘Extremely Concerned’ Council Of Europe Caving To Russian ‘Blackmail’
Ukrainian officials and politicians have reacted with alarm to reports that the Council of Europe is considering lifting sanctions imposed against Russia over its military intervention in Crimea out of fears that Moscow might otherwise leave the body. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
‘Death to the kikes’ painted on wall of Jewish charity in Ukraine
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals wrote “death to the kikes” on the wall of a Jewish charity in western Ukraine. The black graffiti was discovered Monday on the exterior wall of Uzhgorod’s Hesed Shpira charity, which is funded by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or JDC, Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish...
Russia’s Army Is Getting Ready for the Next Big War (Think Armata Tanks and More)
Dave Majumdar Security, Overall, the Russian military is powerful enough to conventionally deter all of its neighbors in the post-Soviet space. However, the Kremlin still has to rely on nuclear weapons to deter China and NATO. Russia’s new state armament plan, which will run from 2018 to 2027, refocuses the Kremlin’s defense spending...
PiS’s Latest Coup de Grace: Scapegoating
By Andrzej MilczanowskiIn its blind effort to reinvent Poland’s past, the current government turns former employees of the country’s security services into scapegoats.Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt a deep-seated hostility to Communism. In the fall of 1939, when I was a new-born, the Soviet Union invaded my hometown....
Ukraine Honors Memory of Holodomor Victims
Ukraine is marking the official Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor, which commemorates the millions who died of famine under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In central Kyiv on Saturday, President Petro Poroshenko and hundreds of other people laid symbolic wheat ears and lit candles before the monument commemorating victims of the...
New separatist leader appointed in eastern Ukraine
Interim chief named to replace the beleaguered leader in apparent palace coup. …read more Source: ABC...
The arms for Ukraine the media are pushing are really about Trump, not Russia
I have noticed a deluge of planted, coordinated articles in the Obama media, and declarations coming from the GOP Establishment Senate, that demand the United States provide supposedly ‘defensive’ weapons to Ukraine. The details of an alleged “presentation” to Trump have even been leaked to the press, detailing a...
Ukraine Honors Memory Of Holodomor Victims
Ukraine is marking the official Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor, which commemorates the millions who died of famine under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
How Social Media Is Leveling the Playing Field Between Governments, Militants, and Ordinary People
Decades before smartphones, the internet, and social media, the philosopher Marshall McLuhan, who worked on media theory, predicted a future world war fought using information. While World War I and World War II were waged using armies and mobilized economies, “World War III [will be] a guerrilla information war with no division between military...
