Section: US & Canada
Calls For Dismissal Of Ukraine’s Powerful Interior Minister Grow Louder After Alleged Police Rape, Gangland Shooting
The alleged rape and torture of a woman by police officers and a shoot-out between criminal gangs follow a series of other cases in which police were accused of involvement or of botching the investigation. Critics of Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, the only cabinet member in office since the aftermath of the 2014 Euromaidan uprising, say...
Ukrainian And German Top Diplomats Talk NATO And Conflict In Eastern Ukraine
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has discussed ongoing conflict with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv’s relationship with NATO, and the issue of Russia-annexed Crimea with German officials during a one-day visit to Berlin. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
No. 1 rule for police: Defend human rights, says Ukraine’s former police chief
Khatia Dekanoidze knows about police reform. As the former chief of the National Police of Ukraine, she continues to work on police reform efforts in Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. She spoke with The World’s host Marco Werman to talk about what US police officers can do now to reform. …read more Source:: Public Radio...
Activists Against Digital Lies
When COVID-19 swept into Lithuania, conspiracy-oriented Facebook groups bulged with disinformation: U.S. soldiers brought the virus to Lithuania, dark forces invented the virus to dominate the world, vaccines will contain nanochips to let people be controlled by 5G cellphone signals.Then something happened.New people suddenly started filtering...
No Time to Go Soft on Putin
With attention focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the national unrest following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, several recent statements by President Trump concerning the G-7 meeting have gone largely unnoticed. First, Trump decided he would host the gathering in person at the end of June in Washington, despite concerns over...
Farce, Tragedy and Photo Op
As much as anything else, the spectacle yesterday afternoon in front of the White House was a deliberate set-up. It’s a not-unknown stock in trade for bad actors to invite press to one kind of purported event and switch to something more ghastly on camera, forcing the press to become complicit in what unfolds. Yesterday was a version of...
EU says Russia should not yet rejoin G7, despite Trump plan
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union on Tuesday joined a growing chorus of members of the Group of Seven major economic powers to insist that Russia must not be allowed back into the fold, after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he plans to invite the country to a G7 summit next fall. Trump said Saturday that he is postponing next month’s...
History Will Judge the Complicit
On a cold March afternoon in 1949, Wolfgang Leonhard slipped out of the East German Communist Party Secretariat, hurried home, packed what few warm clothes he could fit into a small briefcase, and then walked to a telephone box to call his mother. “My article will be finished this evening,” he told her. That was the code they had agreed on in...
Trudeau rejects Trump suggestion to readmit Russia to G7, citing Crimea invasion
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting Donald Trump’s latest proposal to readmit Russia to the G7. The American president was to host the G7 summit later this month but has postponed it to the fall because of the mass protests rocking the United States, and he has mused that he would like to see Russia, India, South Korea and...
Trudeau rejects Trump suggestion to readmit Russia to G7, citing Crimea invasion
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting Donald Trump’s latest proposal to readmit Russia to the G7. The American president was to host the G7 summit later this month but has postponed it to the fall because of the mass protests rocking the United States, and he has mused that he would like to see Russia, India, South Korea and...
