Section: US & Canada
Speaking Truth to the Pope; Speaking Truth to Muslims
On Wednesday, July 27, Pope Francis arrived in Krakow, Poland, in order to celebrate World Youth Day. As part of this trip, the pope commented on controversy surrounding Muslim migration to Europe. Many of these comments reveal an apparent ignorance of Polish history and current reality, a privileging of Marxist and culturally relativist...
Russia Decries Google’s Use Of Ukrainian Spellings For Crimean Places
U.S. tech giant Google came under fire in Russia for using Ukraine’s “decommunized” spellings for street names in parts of Crimea, which Moscow annexed illegally from Ukraine in 2014. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Ukraine Downplays Trump’s Rethinking Of Russian Claim To Crimea
Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations downplayed a comment by U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that he would consider recognizing Russia’s widely condemned annexation of Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
MOSCOW — Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin. …read more...
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin. …read more Source: CTV...
Refusing a New Cold War
Olga Oliker Russia, Eurasia Russia’s narrative reflects a nostalgia for the Cold War, appropriate, perhaps in a year that marks a quarter century since the USSR’s collapse. The Russians are messing with the United States. Not only did they invade Ukraine and annex Crimea in 2014, challenging what seemed a solid European security...
Trump has a record of siding with Putin on key issues
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s intentions toward the Kremlin. … Click to Continue »...
Trump and the Oligarch
The house wasn’t built for a Russian oligarch, although it looked the part. The 62,000-square-foot, 17-bedroom mansion is a palace of new-money flash, featuring Greek fountains, tennis courts, trompe l’oeil murals, underground parking for dozens of cars, and a 100-foot swimming pool and hot tub overlooking the ocean. It even had a...
Russian Freelancers May Be Behind The DNC Hack
In the last week, Russian hackers have become the bogeyman on American media after an enormous hack of tens of thousands of emails from the Democratic National Committee’s computer systems embarrassed the party and led to the resignation of its chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Internet security firm CrowdStrike traced the hack to...
Trump Has a Record of Siding with Putin on Key Issues
Donald Trump has refused to condemn Russia’s military takeover of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, saying if elected he would consider recognizing it as Russian territory, in the latest of a series of statements that have raised eyebrows about the Republican candidate’s… …read more Source:...
