Section: US & Canada
GOP researcher makes shocking claim about Clinton deleted emails, dies 10 days later
A report from the Wall Street Journal claims that a Republican researcher attempted to obtain hacked emails from the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign during the election, and that he believed Mike Flynn was tied to the effort. Peter W. Smith, the operative, died 10 days after speaking to the Journal about his claim. GOP operative sought...
Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Battlefield in Ukraine Heats Up
KYIV, Ukraine—Combat modestly abated along the front lines in eastern Ukraine this week as part of a “harvest truce” so farmers near the front lines could safely tend to their crops. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s hybrid warfare battlefield was in flames. On Tuesday, a car bomb killed a top Ukrainian military intelligence officer in Kyiv in what...
Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion
The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion
The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, … Click to Continue » …read more Source: Miami...
Trump launches ‘dominant’ energy policy focused on exports
Trump announces plans to boost LNG exports to Asian markets and coal exports to Ukraine …read more Source: The Globe and...
Convictions in the Murder of Boris Nemtsov
A Russian jury convicted five men Thursday in the murder of Russian opposition leader and prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov, concluding a trial Nemtsov’s family has criticized as being insufficient.Nemtsov, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critics, was killed while walking near the Kremlin in February 2015,...
Russia, the Last Colonial Empire
When the Soviet banner was lowered over the Kremlin on December 25, 1991, and replaced by the old Russian flag, it was widely celebrated as the fall of communism. Many assumed that this would lead to the “end of history” and to the dawn of a new world order based on the principles of political democracy and economic freedom. But the end of a...
Venezuela’s Shield-Bearing Protesters Inspired by Ukraine
By Victoria Ramirez and Andreina AponteCARACAS (Reuters) – Drawing inspiration from Ukraine’s 2013-14 revolt, Venezuela’s young protesters are… …read more Source: U.S....
Putin thinks the US is trying to overthrow him
That’s what a new DIA report says. Russia believes the US wants regime change in Moscow; helped spark the Arab Spring; and is responsible for the ouster of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya, and the revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan. Those are the major new findings in a new...
Ukraine Faces ‘Substantial Fine’ Over Russia Eurovision Row, Organizers Say
Ukraine’s national broadcaster is facing a “substantial fine” after Russia’s contestant in May’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv was barred from entering the country, organizers say. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
