Section: US & Canada
23-year-old Ukrainian man posed as American high school honours student
Police say a high school honours student just months from graduation is a 23-year-old Ukrainian national using a false identity after his visa expired. …read more Source: Global...
Ukraine Deports Russian Journalist For ‘Damage To Ukraine’s Interests’
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has announced the deportation of a Russian journalist for “committing acts that harm the interests of Ukraine.” …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Pulled anti-IS fighter jets heading to Romania
Four of Canada’s six fighter jets recently pulled from the bombing mission against ISIS are heading to Romania as part of a new mission to train that country’s airforce. In a press release Thursday, the Department of National Defence announced the jets will head from Kuwait, where they were based during the bombing mission, to Romania...
The Many Weaknesses of the Rubio Campaign
Noah Millman sums up the weaknesses of the Rubio campaign in response to a recent Douthat column: But Rubio hasn’t been Kutuzov, retreating into Russia and waiting for winter, because he never held Russia. Lots of people bought into the idea that he was the “stealth” front-runner, but he was never anywhere near to having a commanding...
The P-Word
Things are happening so fast in the armed diplomacy of the Levant that it is hard for codgers like me to keep up. No sooner do I finish responding to one major development than another laps at my closing period. And now again: I finish “Ceasefire or Bait-and-Switch” and the very next day John Kerry drops the “p” word on us: “partition.”...
The Hawkish Cult of “Leadership” (II)
Joe Lieberman wrote a predictably tedious op-ed calling for American “leadership.” One interesting thing about it is that he repeated a claim that Sens. Sasse and Ernst made in their own appeal for hawkish “leadership” last week: In a conversation with the leader of a European ally, some of us asked what the United States could do to be most...
Heidegger’s Ghosts
A specter haunts the post-Cold War liberal order—the specter of radical spiritual malaise. This discontent with or downright opposition to the Western-originated, universalist claims of the broadly liberal cultural, economic, and political order takes diverse forms. One can detect it among Iranian revolutionary theocrats, Russian imperialist...
Moscow Has The Third Largest Number of Billionaires Globally
Despite Russia’s ongoing financial crisis, Moscow is third in the world by the number of billionaire residents, independent thinktank the Hurun Institute reports. The Hurun institute, which annually ranks China and other countries’ most wealthy entrepreneurs, reports that in 2015 only Beijing and New York have more billionaires than...
Russia says there is no ‘plan B’ for Syria — but its airstrikes tell a different story
Thomson ReutersRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters on Thursday that there is no “plan B” on Syria’s ceasefire agreement and will not be one, according to Reuters. His comments echoed those of Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, who said at a conference in Moscow that Russian officials are “perplexed...
How Russia’s oil giant could beat sanctions
Russia’s Rosneft is awaiting a European court ruling on what it claims are illegal sanctions linked to Moscow’s involvement in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
