Section: US & Canada
China’s crackdown raises familiar specter of foreign forces
BEIJING (AP) — In halting televised confessions and emotional courtroom testimony, Chinese lawyers and activists held in a government crackdown have voiced the same ominous message: Though the tactic is far from new, political observers say the trials are a reminder of how the administration of President Xi Jinping has wielded the specter of...
U.S. and Russia brawl over race for U.N. chief
The U.S. and Russia have turned the race for United Nations secretary-general into the latest front in their escalating war for geopolitical influence.Washington, which is believed to want a woman in the U.N. role, has been backing Argentina’s foreign minister in the secretive selection process, U.N. sources say. Meanwhile, U.N. sources say...
Medvedev to Struggling Teachers: Get a Job
Russian teachers who are not happy with their low salaries ought to go into business for themselves. That was the official advice of Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in any case.Medvedev was speaking at a forum called the Territory of the Senses taking place outside of Moscow. A teacher from Dagestan State University asked the PM...
Russia, Trump and Manafort: A Test of the News
Rachel Bauman Politics, Security, Society, Russia, Ukraine, United States The media doesn’t mind being an echo chamber. In 1920 Walter Lippmann and Charles Merz wrote a forty-two-page supplement for the New Republic magazine called, “A Test of the News.” They scrutinized Western media coverage of the Bolshevik revolution and aftermath. They...
A Year After His Death, What I Wish I Could Tell the Ukranian Soldier I Befriended
KYIV, Ukraine—One year ago on Saturday, a 19-year-old Ukrainian soldier named Daniel Kasyanenko died on a battlefield in eastern Ukraine. He died alongside one of his friends, a fellow Ukrainian volunteer soldier, when a mortar fell on them. They were among 18 Ukrainian soldiers to die in a 10-day stretch from Aug. 1 to Aug. 10, 2015. I first met...
Russian Troop Buildup Along Ukraine Border Raises War Fears
Russia’s steady buildup of military forces along its border with Ukraine is raising concerns that Moscow, which annexed Crimea in 2014 and then began backing separatists in eastern Ukraine militarily — including with Russian troops — may be considering an overt military campaign against its southwestern neighbor. Russian Defense Minister...
Donald Trump Doesn’t Need an ‘Intervention’
Clearly things have gone off the rails when a presidential nominee needs an intervention. Apparently, “key Republicans close to Donald Trump’s orbit” think that the window for a general-election “pivot” is closing. NBC reported on Wednesday that Newt Gingrich, Reince Priebus, and Rudy Giuliani were plotting to stage an intervention for...
Ukraine’s ambassador: Trump’s comments send wrong message to world
They stand at odds with America’s role as a beacon of freedom and democracy. …read more Source: The...
Ukrainian hackers leak IDs, personal data of journalists
MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian nationalist website has published what it says is an email archive with copies of IDs and personal data of Ukrainian and international journalists, raising new concerns about their safety. The archive posted by Myrotvorets, which allegedly comes from a disenchanted rebel official and contains thousands of emails, was...
Ukrainian hackers leak IDs, personal data of journalists
In May, Myrotvorets first caused worries about the safety of journalists who covered the conflict in Ukraine’s rebel-controlled east when it leaked names and contact information for thousands of reporters who have reported from rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine. The release of journalists’ personal data has drawn sharp criticism from...
