Section: US & Canada
McMullin’s Dreadfully Conventional Hawkishness
I haven’t taken Evan McMullin’s independent bid for president seriously because it began so late in the year with a complete unknown for a candidate, and I still don’t think it will amount to much. However, because there is a nontrivial chance that he could win some electoral votes by carrying Utah, and because some readers have...
Trial Begins For Kazakh Citizen Suspected Of Fighting Alongside Separatists In Ukraine
The trial of a Kazakh citizen suspected of fighting alongside Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine started in Kazakhstan on October 24. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Says Proposal For Armed OSCE Ukraine Mission Still Vague
Moscow supports the idea of creating an armed Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) police mission in eastern Ukraine but cast doubt that such a force could be formed soon. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
No More NATO Expansion: U.S. Should Downsize Defense Commitments
NATO, the alliance informally known as North America and The Others, remains committed to expansion. Powerhouse Montenegro, with 2080 men in uniform, will be the next entrant. Other governments knocking at the alliance door include Finland, Georgia, and Serbia. Adding these states would violate the purpose of an organization intended to increase...
Ten Years Old And Tired Of War
Before the war, there were 37 schoolchildren in the village of Orlovske in southeastern Ukraine. Now there’s only one. Most families have fled the fighting just a few kilometers away, and 10-year-old Serhiy is left to study and play by himself. (RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service) …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russian Hacks Bring U.S. Vulnerabilities to the Forefront
The reliance of the United States’ critical infrastructure on high technology renders it vulnerable to future cyber attacks by the Russians, making it difficult for the U.S. government to retaliate against Moscow for trying to interfere with the presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community formally accused Russia earlier this...
Peace Through Trump?
Donald Trump played a wily capitalistic trick on his Republican opponents in the primary fights this year—he served an underserved market. By now it’s a cliché that Trump, while on his way to the GOP nomination, tapped into an unnoticed reservoir of right-of-center opinion on domestic and economic concerns—namely, the populist-nationalists...
Hannah Arendt statue unveiled in Budapest
(JTA) –- The mayor of a district of Budapest unveiled a bust of the Jewish-American philosopher Hannah Arendt at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Laszlo Hajdu, mayor of Budapest’s 15th District and a politician for the Democratic Coalition, a left-wing opposition party, unveiled the bust on...
Putin’s “Compatriots”
Damir Marusic sat down with scholar Agnia Grigas to discuss her new book on Putin’s policies. Below is an edited transcript.Damir Marusic for TAI: Tell us a little bit about the book Beyond Crimea: The New Russian Empire, and what you set out to do in writing it. Agnia Grigas: I set out to write this book in early 2014 with the aim of...
Radio listeners mourn passing of Live 88.5 DJ Katfish Morgan
Michel Maisonneuve knew before most folks that his kid brother would be using his wits and voice to make a living. “He was a blabbermouth, even as a kid,” Maisonneuve laughs, recalling breakfasts in the family home when the kid who would adopt the radio moniker “Katfish Morgan”, would regale the table with non-stop chatter. “I’d complain to...
