Section: US & Canada
Jewish, Iranian groups ask feds to add Iran’s Guard Corps to terror listing
OTTAWA — Canadian Jewish and Iranian organizations have reiterated their demands for the government to list Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity following last week’s downing of a Ukrainian jetliner in Iran. David Matas, the senior lawyer for B’nai Brith Canada, said Monday that while the terror listing...
Russia’s Australian Well-Wishers
What, one wonders, goes through the head of a Russian diplomat assigned an ambassadorial posting to Australia, the country the Russians inexplicably call the “green continent”? He would know that it’s not a sought-after position: Canberra registers only faintly on the radar screen of Russia’s priorities. He would recall immediately...
Impeachment Suspends the Constitution by Fraud
Comes now We The People (as one stands for Liberty they are a Majority) before the Juror United States Senate. We appear before you intended to establish to the Jurors of the Court for the Trial of Impeachments that the Articles of Impeachment to Impeach the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, as (and when) provided by the House...
Iranian leaders facing pressure at home and abroad as public anger mounts over downed plane
Iranian riot police used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters in Tehran’s Azadi Square Sunday, as public fury escalates over Iran’s accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board. Protests that began as vigils to mourn those who died in the crash quickly turned into mass...
Iranian Anti-Government Protesters Clash With Security Forces
Iranian protesters took to the streets in the third day of demonstrations against the government after it acknowledged mistakenly shooting down a Ukrainian passenger jet, killing all 176 aboard. Video posted online showed students outside universities in Tehran and Isfahan Monday chanting at the country’s rulers, “Clerics get...
Mitch McConnell Is Trying His Best to Kill Any Interest in the Trial Ahead
Unless the country has another curveball coming its way, this week should see the transmission of articles of impeachment by the House of Representatives to the Senate—thus triggering the beginning of that body’s trial of President Donald Trump.An impeachment trial of a president should be a riveting political event. It’s a major...
Ahead of impeachment trial, Trump suggests not having it
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him. It’s an extraordinary suggestion as the House is poised to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial. Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned senators will “pay a price” if they block new testimony, saying Americans want a “fair...
Ahead of Impeachment Trial, Trump Suggests Not Having It
President Donald Trump says the Senate should simply dismiss the impeachment case against him, an extraordinary suggestion as the House prepares to transmit the charges to the chamber for the historic trial.The Republican president is giving mixed messages ahead of the House’s landmark vote that will launch the Senate proceedings in a...
Iranian police shoot at protesters, video shows
Video shows Iranian police using tear gas and live ammunition on protesters who were demonstrating after the government in Tehran admitted to mistakenly shooting down an Ukraine-bound airplane, The Associated Press reports. Droves of… …read more Source:: The...
The Urgent Race for Bigger Foreign-Policy Ideas
In the last two weeks, escalating hostilities brought the United States to the brink of yet another conflict in the Middle East—this time with Iran. But such a conflict might not look much like the others that American forces have fought in the 21st century.Tank-on-tank warfare this isn’t. While crises are inherently unpredictable,...
