Section: US & Canada
UAV raising funds for wheelchairs for Ukrainian wounded warriors
CHICAGO – Since the beginning of the undeclared war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers and volunteers have been injured. The nationwide Ukrainian American Veterans organization is committed to helping some of the most seriously wounded. In 2016, UAV Post 32 of Chicago initiated an effort to raise funds to ship 10 […]...
Plast to hold jubilee jamboree in Germany
MUNICH, Germany – In 1947, after having survived two world wars, members of Plast Ukrainian Scouting Organization met in the Bavarian Alps to commemorate the organization’s 35th anniversary. They gathered in the town of Mittenwald, which translates as “in the middle of the forest.” Although Bavaria was foreign to Ukrainian scouts, the...
Trump’s alleged computer server connection with a Russian bank continues to be investigated
(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) An alleged computer server connection between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, an influential financial institution in Russia with connections to both the Russian and Ukrainian elite, is still being investigated by the FBI, according to a new report by CNN. The FBI’s counterintelligence team, which...
The Daily Vertical: Post-Truth On Trial
The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of RFE/RL. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pentagon: Russia, China Able to Launch Catastrophic Cyber Attacks on U.S. Infrastructure for Next 10 Years
Critical American infrastructure like the electric grid will remain vulnerable to catastrophic cyber attacks from Russia and China for at least 10 years, according to a Pentagon study. A report by a Defense Science Board task force concludes that the decade-long cyber vulnerabilities must be mitigated while the Pentagon quickly creates new cyber...
Culinary Feminism and Banksy Goes to Bethlehem: The Week in Global-Affairs Writing
Things Only Seem to Change Linda Kinstler | Mary Review “When Ukraine greeted the Euromaidan Revolution in November 2013, memories of the 2004 Orange Revolution, a protest against political corruption that ultimately had little impact on government integrity, still lingered in the public imagination. The country had grown perilously accustomed to...
Russia and Revolution at KGB Bar
If you haven’t yet made plans for where to celebrate the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, consider KGB. During the Cold War, this second-floor barroom was the headquarters of Little Ukraine’s own semi-secret Socialist club. “The F.B.I. used to watch the comings and goings from an apartment across the street,” Dan Christian,...
From Russia with loathing: Freeland and the media
Exodus 34:7 — the Sins of the Father. “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation.” The bullshit is getting biblical. Politics has always been a game of public people aiming poison darts at other public people. But have we really reached the point where what...
From Russia with loathing: Freeland and the media
Exodus 34:7, the Sins of the Father. “Visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and fourth generation.” The bullshit is getting biblical. …read more Source:...
Canada reviewing how NATO members calculate defence spending
Minister of National Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan delivers a speech at the start of consultation with industry members in Ottawa, Wednesday July 6, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA – Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says he has ordered officials to look at how Canada calculates military spending compared to other NATO members, to...
