Section: US & Canada
‘A very dangerous game’: Russia vs. Ukraine showdown reaches risky new level
The tension flare-ups just keep coming in the armed confrontation between Ukraine and Russia and now the military buildup at the borders has reached the most dangerous level in two years. This is a bad one. The latest showdown has caused Western capitals to fear Russian President Vladimir Putin might be about to launch a whole new battle with...
China’s Xi Jinping Talks Up ‘One Belt One Road’ as Keynote Project Fizzles
China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) intercontinental trade and infrastructure project must bring real benefits to participant nations, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, as his seminal foreign policy initiative faces mounting challenges. Xi told a meeting in Beijing that more than 100 countries and international organizations have...
Ukraine Reports Rebels Open Fire Nearly 100 Times In One Day
Ukraine’s forces stationed in the war-torn east have reported that pro-Russian separatists opened fire nearly 100 times in one day, in another apparent surge in violations of the region’s fragile ceasefire. According to the Facebook page of Kiev’s military operations in government-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, Wednesday saw...
Trump‘s Shady Fixer
So much for the old accusation that the Republican Party has a “Cold War mentality.” Or if it still does, it has switched sides.The 2016 presidential campaign continues to play out like a Christopher Buckley novel gone completely off the rails, perhaps most implausibly in Paul Manafort’s role in the Russia-friendly Donald Trump...
‘A very dangerous game’: Russia vs. Ukraine showdown reaches risky new level
The tension flare-ups just keep coming in the armed confrontation between Ukraine and Russia and now the military buildup at the borders has reached the most dangerous level in two years, Brian Stewart writes. …read more Source:...
Is Putin playing Trump like he did Berlusconi?
In January 2009, the U.S. ambassador in Rome cabled Washington to raise an alarm. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the diplomat wrote, had cultivated a troubling relationship with the country’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. “Berlusconi admires Putin’s macho, decisive, and authoritarian governing style, which the Italian PM...
White Russia Makes Progress
Belarus is an interesting, attractive country, certainly off the beaten track. A beautiful, rebuilt capital city of Minsk (mostly destroyed along with 30 percent of the country’s population during World War II), with wide boulevards and parks and superbly clean, belies its old reputation as the last dictatorship in Europe. Its economy is...
Trump Time Capsule #79->∞: Shakeup
I’ve innocently spent a few days off line, in the same city (Erie, Pa.) where Donald Trump spoke this weekend but seeing a completely different prospect from the one he described. And I log back to on to see — whoa!In order, and for the record:Medical records. While Trump’s refusal to release his tax records has gotten more attention,...
Ukraine prosecutor: Paul Manafort’s name appears in secret ledger
Trump campaign chairman says he didn’t take cash from pro-Russian party of the former Ukrainian president; but Ukraine’s anti-corruption prosecutor says Monafort’s name appears in a cash ledger 12 times …read more Source:...
Trump campaign chairman listed in big money payouts from Ukraine
Investigators in Ukraine are looking into a ledger that apparently shows millions of dollars of payouts to Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort in the last few years. Monafort’s name is listed in a ledger of payments from the party of former president Viktor Yanukovycht. Manafort has said he didn’t take cash, but...
