Section: US & Canada
In Search of Lost Time
My wife has lost her sense of smell, and we’ve all lost our sense of time. Lockdown feels like one endless loop of a working weekend from home, a never-setting Sunday lost to conference calls that run into one another, unpicking knotted clumps of email chains. If, like me, you are recovering from a bad-ish bout of the virus, progress is...
Macron to Putin: Virus Crisis Shows Need for Peace-Building
France’s leader on Thursday called for closer cooperation with Russia as the world struggles against the coronavirus, recalling the joint Allied effort to defeat Nazi Germany that ended 75 years ago.In a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Emmanuel Macron expressed “the recognition of the French people”...
Ukrainian President Names Saakashvili To Head Reform Council
Ukraine’s president has named former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to head the executive committee of Ukraine’s National Reform Council. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Rand Paul blasts nationwide lockdowns, says they’re ironically making US even more dependent on China
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) says the nationwide stay-at-home orders must cease if America is ever to get back on its feet. What are the details? Speaking on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” the Republican senator said that states continuing to enforce lockdown measures are sabotaging themselves as well as the United States and...
Media Watchdog Condemns ‘Wave Of Violence’ Against Ukrainian Journalists
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is urging Ukrainian authorities to enforce legislation penalizing violence against journalists after a reporter was assaulted by officers in Kyiv last week while he was filming an anti-lockdown protest. In a statement on May 7, the Paris-based media-freedom watchdog says the incident came amid “many other...
Where Things Stand: Breaking Their Own Rules
During the Passover, first daughter Ivanka Trump was shredded in the media for traveling to her father’s resort to celebrate, breaking the White House’s own “essential travel” rules. While President Trump has spent the last month essentially advocating against the rules his own White House established amid a pandemic, it is still...
Obama Called GOP’s Bogus Biden-Ukraine Probe Part Of ‘Russian Disinformation’
A highly politicized GOP Senate investigation into discredited allegations against Joe Biden in Ukraine constitute efforts to boost Russia-sourced disinformation, President Obama’s office said in a March 2020 letter. The former president’s office sent the letter to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in response to...
Ukraine’s Security Service Says It Detained FSB Agent
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) says it has detained an alleged spy accused of collecting data on a “modern missile system” on behalf of Russia. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Freedom House Warns of Democratic Breakdown in Central, Eastern Europe
In its latest report, U.S.-based democracy monitor Freedom House warns of a “stunning democratic breakdown” across Central Europe, the Balkans, and Eurasia as many leaders in the region attempt to do away with any remaining checks on their power. “A growing number of leaders in Central and Eastern Europe have dropped even the...
Obama’s office ripped Republicans’ investigation into Bidens in private letter
The office of former President Obama privately condemned a congressional investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son’s ties to Ukraine, describing it as an attempt “to shift the blame for Rus… …read more Source:: The...
