Section: US & Canada
Protesters call for Ukraine’s General Prosecutor to resign
MOSCOW (AP) — Over 500 protesters have gathered outside the administrative headquarters of Ukraine’s president to call for the resignation of the country’s general prosecutor, who they say, has failed to use the full power of his office to deal with endemic corruption. …read more Source: U.S....
Ukrainian Protesters Demand Dismissal Of Prosecutor-General
Dozens of activists gathered in central Kyiv have demanded an immediate dismissal of Ukraine’s embattled Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Syria: Maybe the Bridge is Best, After All
Syrian peace talks in Geneva, which have yet to feature negotiations between opposing parties, are in recess. Violence is down, humanitarian assistance (though spotty) is moving, but the map to the promised land – political transition – remains a blank sheet. The two parties – Russia and Iran – who have applied military...
Inside Rebel-Held Ukraine’s Palaces Of Propaganda
On a cold morning in February, a couple of hours’ drive out of rebel-held Donetsk, the undercover journalist’s phone buzzed with an ‘Unknown’ number. Was this to conceal the caller’s identity, or location? Whatever the reason, it felt ominous.There was, however, a minor hitch. The mystery apparatchik on the end of...
What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About Alliances
Now that President Obama has returned from Havana, where he worked to reestablish relations with a former adversary, an unexpected foreign policy debate is emerging—not the longstanding hot-button issue of outreach to America’s enemies, but the subtler question of how America should handle its friends. For the first time in several decades,...
Trump’s Jumbled, Deal-Obsessed Foreign Policy
Leon Hadar does a good job making some sense out of Trump’s recent rambling interviews on foreign policy with The New York Times and Washington Post: We should reassess the American role in NATO and the rationale for continuing to maintain it. But Trump needs to explain to us why we need to do that, not like a technocrat going through the...
An historic Week: Bringing War Criminals to Justice
Like proverbial buses, it seems you can wait ages for a landmark international justice case, and then four come along at the same time. By any standards, this has been a remarkable week for international justice. On Thursday Radovan Karadžić was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his role in...
Lost in TRUMPLANDIA
Trump victory party, New Hampshire, February 2016. In the crowd: Rich, a former submariner (in camo); a great-grandmother named Diana Ross (Blossom hat); the author (pixie cut, no socks). “THE FED OWNS COWS!” a protester bellowed at me as I moved blindly toward the doors of a Donald Trump rally. It was February 8, the eve of the New Hampshire...
Russia’s Artful Exit from Syria
Alexander Kirss Security, Middle East Moscow entered and exited the conflict all within five months. Vladimir Putin’s surprise announcement that he is withdrawing the majority of Russian troops stationed in Syria will lead to much speculation over his true motives for doing so. Has the Russian military, as his announcement claimed, actually...
Pope Urges Using ‘Weapons Of Love’ To Combat Evil In Easter Message
Pope Francis urged the world in his Easter message on Sunday to use the “weapons of love” to combat the evil of “blind and brutal violence”, following the attacks in Brussels.After a week of somber religious events commemorating Jesus’ death, Francis said an Easter Sunday Mass under tight security for tens of...
