Section: US & Canada
Wars of Religion
“We are ready to die for our church and that is what we are demonstrating tonight.” This provocative statement was given by Andrija Mandić, the leader of the opposition in the Montenegrin Parliament, on the eve of the recent passage of a controversial law on religious property in the country. This law stipulates that the Serbian Orthodox Church...
Dem strategist threatens ‘scorched-earth’ crusade against Trump’s family over Hunter Biden pressure
A Democratic strategist who served as an adviser to Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign has promised to go after President Donald Trump’s family if Republicans continue pressuring Hunter Biden over his Ukraine business dealings. Timothy O’Brien said on MSNBC over the weekend that there will be a...
Court: House entitled to Mueller probe grand jury testimony
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department must give Congress secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday — giving the House a win in a separation-of-powers clash with the Trump administration. The three-judge panel said in a 2-1 opinion that House Democrats were...
An Unorthodox Partnership
Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and StrategyDmitry AdamskyStanford University Press, 2019, 376 pp., $30 During communist times, Orthodox churches collaborated across their institutional hierarchies with communist intelligence services. The declassification of files over the past three decades has revealed how stunningly close ties...
Fox Host Claims Coronavirus Is ‘Another Attempt To Impeach’ Trump In Unhinged Rant
Fox Business host Trish Regan had a full-blown meltdown on Monday night while accusing “the liberal media” and Democrats of conspiring to take down President Donald Trump with the fallout of COVID-19. Regan opened her program with a graphic that said “CORONAVIRUS IMPEACHMENT SCAM” as she blamed Democrats for the plummeting stock market that came...
Dutch prosecutors: Russia wants to thwart MH17 investigation
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — A Dutch prosecutor said Tuesday that there are “strong indications” Russia wants to undermine investigations into the downing of Malaysia Flight 17 and told judges at the trial of four suspects that many witnesses fear for their safety. Prosecutor Thijs Berger made the statement on the second day of the trial of three...
Russia’s Battle for Memory and Justice
On the last weekend of February, more than 20,000 people marched in downtown Moscow to mark the fifth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Russia’s former deputy prime minister and Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent. Chanting “Russia will be free” and “murderer out of the Kremlin,” demonstrators walked down the same path...
Coronavirus Outbreak Is Bad News for Ukraine’s Economy
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has so far been spared from a major coronavirus outbreak. The country’s economy, however, is far less quarantined from the disease’s global impact. Responsible for the disease now known as COVID-19, the new coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China. According to the World Health Organization, the global number of...
Ron Johnson vows to force Burisma-related subpoena vote amid Dem opposition
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) indicated on Monday that he will move forward with a vote this week on a subpoena related to his probe into Hunter Biden and Ukraine gas company Burisma Holdings despite push back from Democrats…. …read more Source:: The...
MH17 crash murder suspects absent as trial kicks off with reading nearly 300 names of those killed
The names of the 298 people killed in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine were read aloud Monday by a Dutch prosecutor as the trial kicked off against three Russians and one Ukrainian allegedly responsible for having the commercial passenger plane shot out of the sky. …read more Source:: FOX...
