Section: US & Canada
Manafort firm received Ukraine ledger payout
WASHINGTON — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. …read more Source: Pittsburgh...
AP: Paul Manafort Firm Received Ukraine Ledger Payout
WASHINGTON (AP) — Last August, a handwritten ledger surfaced in Ukraine with dollar amounts and dates next to the name of Paul Manafort, who was then Donald Trump’s campaign chairman. Ukrainian investigators called it evidence of off-the-books payments from a pro-Russian political party — and part of a larger pattern of corruption under the...
Lithuania To Push Military Spending Above NATO Target
Lithuania will keep increasing military spending after hitting NATO’s recommended level of 2 percent of economic output in the next two years, its finance minister said, as Russia builds up capabilities on the borders of its Baltic neighbors.Relations with the West were damaged by Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and deteriorated...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Sees a “Russia Connection” Lurking Around Every Corner
One day after her network joined the rest of corporate media in cheering for President Trump’s missile attack on Syria, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow was back to regular business: seeing Russian collaboration with Trump at work. It’s “impossible,” fellow anchor Lawrence O’Donnell told Maddow on April 7, to rule out that “Vladimir...
There’s proof that ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort lied about not being paid by Russia proxies: report
(Credit: AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) Paul Manafort and Carter Page, two advisers of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, are officially in the thick of the Russia investigation. The Washington Post confirmed late Tuesday that the FBI obtained a secret court order last summer to monitor the communications of Page, while the Associated Press...
Can Ukraine Win Over Pro-Russian Citizens in the East—and Finally End the War with Separatists?
So far, the country’s response to the frozen conflict has been clumsy, draconian and self-defeating—but building homes and schools could be the strategy Kiev needs. …read more Source:...
Manafort firm got Ukraine ledger payouts: report
The Associated Press confirmed Manafort’s firm received two payments in the document. …read more Source: The...
The Brilliant Incoherence of Trump’s Foreign Policy
Every 20 years or so—the regularity is a little astonishing—Americans hold a serious debate about their place in the world. What, they ask, is going wrong? And how can it be fixed? The discussion, moreover, almost always starts the same way. Having extricated itself with some success from a costly war, the United States then embraces a...
Records link some Ukraine ledger payments to ex-Trump aide Paul Manafort
Records show at least $1.2 million in payments listed in the ledger next to Manafort’s name were actually received by his consulting firm in the United States …read more Source:...
Putin: U.S.-Russia Ties Worse Since Trump Took Office
Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a face-off over Syria.Any hope in Russia that the Trump administration would herald less confrontational relations has been dashed in the...
