Section: US & Canada
OSCE Monitors: Eastern Ukraine Conflict on Brink of Major Escalation
The head of the independent body monitoring the cease-fire in eastern Ukraine has told VOA the conflict is on the brink of a major escalation. Alexander Hug says heavy weapons are being used in civilian areas. As Henry Ridgwell reports, pro-Russian rebels continue to block monitors’ access to many of the conflict zones. …read more...
Stéphane Dion says Canada, U.S. share interest in resolving Russia’s Ukraine incursion
The Foreign Affairs Minister wants to work with America to face the “challenge” posed by Vladimir Putin’s regime. …read more Source: Toronto...
EU’s Tusk Says Keeping West United Against Russia Harder With Trump
It will be harder to keep the West united toward Russia with Donald Trump as United States president than it has been with Barack Obama, European Council President Donald Tusk said in comments published on Thursday. Trump’s election promise to improve Washington’s chilly relations with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin have...
Christmas According to Marx and Lenin, by Ronald Reagan
ORLANDO, FL – Between his campaign against President Gerald Ford in 1975-76 and his race against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan delivered more than 1,000 radio broadcasts. In fact, Mr. Reagan wrote most of those three-minute broadcasts himself. In one broadcast during the Christmas season, Reagan shared a story about Christmas in the Ukraine...
Canada, U.S. need to work together to face Russia ‘challenge’: Dion
OTTAWA — Canada wants to work with the United States to face the “challenge” posed by Russia, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion said Thursday. Dion steered clear of weighing in directly on comments Donald Trump made during the U.S. election campaign in which he praised Russian President Vladimir Putin. But the minister said...
The New Yorker Exposes a Fake News Fraud
A viral Washington Post story breathlessly circulated by media mandarins condemning the influence of “fake news” on the U.S. presidential election turns out to have been… fake news. The New Yorker’s Adrian Chen has published a devastating takedown of the key source in the Washington Post piece, an anonymous group called PropOrNot, which...
Meet Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, Trump’s Iran hawk choice for secretary of defense
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the Pentagon, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, has said, “it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot” Taliban fighters, told Iraqi leaders that “if you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all,” and accused the Obama administration of naiveté for inking a nuclear deal with Iran that will slow,...
‘Russia isn’t a threat’: As Canada prepares to send troops to Latvia, not everybody is ready to welcome them
Canada will deploy 450 soldiers to Latvia early next year, a show of force that’s part of a NATO effort to deter a repeat of Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine …read more Source: Vancouver...
New Putin Doctrine Says U.S. Pressure ‘Undermining’ Global Stability
Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed a new foreign policy doctrine accusing the United States and its allies of undermining “global stability” by trying to “contain” Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Investigative Chief Alleges Ukrainian Lawmaker May Have Spied For Russia
The head of investigations in Ukraine’s Security Services (SBU) has charged that Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Onyshchenko may have been spying for Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
