Section: US & Canada
Trudeau says Canada-U.S. border to close at midnight: Full Transcript
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered his daily briefing from Rideau College on the coronavirus outbreak. The following is the transcript of his remarks, in English, for March 20, 2020. We’re in discussion with Canadian airlines to help Canadians stranded abroad come home. We will have more details to share but the first flight will be...
Putin Is Perfecting His Authoritarian Model
Façades are everything in Russia. Vladimir Putin learned that the hard way in 2011, when he let his own façade slip at a party convention and publicly admitted to an end run around the country’s constitutional term limit on presidents. His hand-picked successor, Dmitri Medvedev, announced that he would step aside to allow Putin to run again...
Reporter’s Notebook: Lives and Well-Being of Everyone Rest in Hands of All
For a country that thrives on sociability, life without bars and restaurants, and little social contact, is a test of will and a breaking of entrenched habits. While touring Italy in the early 1900s, American author Henry James noted that Italian life is street life. Now, with the unprecedented nationwide lockdown because of the coronavirus, life...
Trump’s Dangerous Party Line
On the evening of June 21, 1941, American Communists went to bed subject to one party line. At the sun set, Britain was fighting an imperialist war against Germany, about which the United States must remain neutral.American Communists awoke on June 22, 1941, to discover the party line abruptly changed. Hitler had invaded the Soviet Union. Now the...
Ukraine’s Zelensky wants to end a war in the east. His problem: No one agrees how to do it.
A prisoner’s story of torture in Ukraine’s separatist eastern region tells how hard it is to reunite Ukraine. …read more Source:: The Washington...
Don’t Let Putin Whitewash History
President Vladimir Putin cleared the penultimate barrier to his staying on in power indefinitely by having Russia’s highest court ruled in favor of amending the country’s constitution to remove presidential term limits. His tenure in office already exceeds that of his hero, Josef Stalin, and guarantees the continuing pursuit of...
The Foreign Policy of 2021 Democrats
Joe Biden is running as a restorationist, offering a return to the Obama era. But he likely won’t govern as a restorationist, at least when it comes to foreign policy and America’s role in the world.The Biden campaign believes that the candidate’s connection to Barack Obama is an asset, and no political benefit exists in...
Ukraine’s Coronavirus Lockdown Invokes Memories of Life in the Soviet Union
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has gone into a nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus. As of Tuesday, the country is completely closed to foreigners. All international air traffic has stopped and Ukraine’s land borders are closed, too. Ukrainian citizens stuck abroad have been instructed to go to their nearest consulate so they...
Media Focused on Blaming Coronavirus on Trump
After years of Russia, Russia, Russia and a few months of Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine we now have another bunch of foreigners interfering in our presidential election. The difference is the Opposition Media welcomes this interference because of the damage it may do to President Trump’s re–election. While Russian ‘interference’ was...
Ukraine To Test Lawmakers For Coronavirus After Colleague Infected
The speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and other lawmakers will be tested for the novel coronavirus after one of their colleagues tested positive on March 18, local media has reported. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
