Section: US & Canada
Trump taps military strategist as national security adviser
By CATHERINE LUCEY and ROBERT BURNS PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, a prominent military strategist known as a creative thinker, as his new national security adviser, replacing the ousted Michael Flynn. Trump announced the pick Monday at his Palm Beach, Florida, club and said McMaster is “a...
Choice of McMaster likely to quell GOP hawks
President Donald Trump has picked one of the military’s leading warrior-scholars to restore order to the National Security Council — but also one who has staked out a decidedly more hawkish position on Russia and gone out of his way to assert that the war against terrorism must not be morph into a war against Islam.Lt. Gen. H.R....
Trump Lawyer Confirms Meeting Ukrainian, Denies Carrying Peace Plan
Michael Cohen said he did meet with a Russian-born ex-Trump associate and a Ukraine lawmaker, but didn’t carry a peace plan to Mike Flynn. …read more Source:...
Trump Decapitates the Russia Peace Initiative
Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo Trump folds under totalizing corporate media and war-state pressures today. The resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn decapitates his presidency’s peace initiative with Russia after years of campaigning for it. General Flynn is not another Trump slob. He is the most advanced military intelligence...
Russia’s ambassador to United Nations dies in NYC
Prime Minister Stephen Harper addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (Sean Kilpatrick, The Canadian Press) NEW YORK — Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, a veteran diplomat known as a potent and personable voice for his country’s interests as he sparred...
Kremlin denies knowledge of Ukrainian peace plan drafted by Trump’s personal lawyer
Reports suggest Felix Sater, a Trump business associate, and Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, worked with a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine on the plan …read more Source: Vancouver...
Obscure Ukraine Lawmaker Behind ‘Peace Plan’ Delivered To Trump’s White House
A little-known Ukrainian lawmaker is in the spotlight after a report said a peace-for-sanctions-relief proposal that he says he co-authored ended up on the desk of U.S. President Donald Trump’s short-lived national security adviser. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Kremlin denies knowledge of Ukrainian peace plan drafted by Trump’s personal lawyer
WASHINGTON — The Kremlin said Monday that the Russian government does not know anything about a Ukraine peace plan crafted by an opposition Ukrainian lawmaker and two of President Donald Trump’s associates. Russia President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, shrugged off the plan that the lawmaker in Ukraine reportedly tried...
Kremlin: Trump associates’ peace plan for Ukraine ‘absurd’
The Kremlin said Monday that the Russian government does not know anything about a Ukraine peace plan crafted by an opposition Ukrainian lawmaker and two of President Donald Trump’s associates. …read more Source: CTV...
Kremlin: Trump associates’ peace plan for Ukraine ‘absurd’
The Kremlin says the Russian government does not know anything about Ukraine peace plan crafted by an opposition Ukrainian lawmaker and two of President Donald Trump’s associates. Russia President Vladimir … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...
