Section: US & Canada
Watch: Two men walk around Ukraine’s capital holding hands, and get beat up by neo-Nazis
A recent video shot in Moscow showed what happened when two men walked around the city holding hands. The hidden camera captured the pair being insulted and threatened – and how they escaped violence only by admitting they were just doing a social experiment. [Watch: What happens when two men walk around Moscow holding hands] A […] …read...
A Ukrainian artist uses 5,000 cartridges in her portrait of Vladimir Putin
Ukrainian artist Dariya Marchenko has created a portrait in her Kiev studio of Russian President Vladimir Putin named “The Face of War” with 5,000 cartridges brought from the frontline in eastern Ukraine. The portrait is accompanied by a book which will tell personal stories of people who helped her collect shells from the frontline....
Putin Threatens America with Nuclear Annihilation
The nation is fiercely debating the Iran nuclear deal and the significance of the Ayatollah’s “death to America” tweets when the real problem is Iran’s sponsor, Russia, and its lunatic ruler, Vladimir Putin. By controlling the media, killing off the opposition, and smearing Ukrainian freedom fighters as Nazis, the former KGB colonel...
Putin fired more than 100,000 people
Vladimir Putin has fired 110,000 people. The Russian president signed a decree two weeks ago that reduced the number of full-time staff in the interior ministry of Russia by about 10% — or 110,000 people. Most of the cuts will be administrative staff. It will bring the total number of employees in the agency down to just above 1 million,...
Women in China have started wearing ‘Facekinis’ on the beach to keep their skin pale
Qingdao (China) (AFP) – Ever more Chinese women are embracing the “facekini” to protect them from the sun and the threat of a tan on a trip to the beach. Pale white skin is highly-valued in China, where a darker complexion is associated more with poor rural women, who often labour for long hours in the sun. The nylon accessory...
Foundation owned by Ukraine’s richest man warns of aid blockade in the east
The biggest supplier of aid to rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine says its mission could fold in two days’ time if rebels continue to block its convoys. …read more Source: CTV...
Ukraine Russia Conflict: Russian Taking Selfie Is Shot On Ukrainian Border, Police Deny Report
A Russian national was reportedly shot by Ukraine authorities while attempting to take a selfie photo near the border of Russia and Ukraine, the Moscow Times reported Monday. Nikolai Sinitsin, a resident of Rostov-on-Don in Russia, was being treated for a gunshot wound to the chest, though Ukraine’s police said it was not responsible for...
Azov Battalion Commander Found Dead
A high-ranking commander of Ukraine’s Azov battalion has been found dead in his apartment in the town of Bucha, outside Kyiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
The Iran Deal and the Rut of History
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with Hossein Fereydoun and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif (Reuters) “The president said many times he’s willing to step out of the rut of history.” In this way Ben Rhodes of the White House, who over the years has broken new ground in the grandiosity of presidential apologetics, described the...
PM talks tough but neglects Canadian navy
For months now, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been trying to portray himself as some sort of a warrior king. Since the outset of the crisis in Ukraine, Harper has been the most strident critic of Russian aggression among all the NATO leaders. As part of the whole tough-guy routine, Harper and his eager accomplice, Defence Minister Jason...
