Section: US & Canada
Trump administration divided over Putin meet-up at G20
A woman passes a billboard showing a pictures of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, November 16, 2016. (Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters) WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany...
Why Rep. Adam Kinzinger Is Raising ‘Holy Hell’ Over Russia
Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on iTunes here. | Subscribe via Stitcher.For 70 years, a fundamental precept of the Republican Party has been a deep skepticism, if not outright hostility, toward Russia. Now, after biting their collective tongues during the opening months of Donald Trump’s presidency, congressional Republicans face an...
Hundreds have gone missing in eastern Ukraine’s dirty war
Abuses by both sides have been documented by U.N. investigators. …read more Source: The Washington...
Yanukovych Treason Trial Adjourns After Formally Opening
The treason trial in absentia of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has been quickly adjourned after formally opening in a courtroom in the capital, Kyiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko To Meet Macron In Paris
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is due to meet his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris on June 26. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Demonizing Democracy
The recent passage of a “foreign agents” law in Hungary is a disturbing reminder of the determination of the world’s autocracies to crush civil society activism. While Prime Minister Viktor Orban has justified the new measure on transparency grounds, the law’s clear purpose is to neutralize NGOs and think tanks as sources of...
Meet the horsemen of our environmental apocalypse
Scott Pruitt; Rex Tillerson; Ryan Zinke (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Carolyn Kaster) Consolidation of power by the oil and coal barons began immediately after the election; president-elect Trump’s transition advisors emerged as an oil industry dream team. Despite the initial antipathy between Trump and the Koch brothers, once he secured...
Ukraine Says Two Soldiers Killed Despite Cease-Fire
The Ukrainian military has said that two soldiers were killed and two wounded in the eastern part of the country despite a cease-fire that began Friday. In a statement posted on Facebook on Saturday, the military accused anti-government rebels of firing artillery rounds in both the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. The statement did not provide...
Ukraine Says Two Soldiers Killed Despite Cease-Fire
The Ukrainian military has said that two soldiers were killed and two wounded in the eastern part of the country despite a cease-fire that began on June 23. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Who in the hell is Michael Cohen?! Everything you were afraid to ask about this suddenly important person
Michael Cohen (Credit: Salon/Flora Thevoux) (In this brand new, hastily conceived premise, Salon will use the otherwise unlimited space of the site to profile a person in the news who has until recently lived largely under the radar. And by under the radar, we mean above gratuitous satire.) FULL NAME: Michael D – What you, a cop? TWITTER:...
