Section: US & Canada
Diplomats seek to calm Ukraine fighting, break stalemate
PARIS (AP) — The foreign ministers of Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany will meet in Paris to discuss efforts to try to end the conflict in… …read more Source:...
U.S. To Preposition Tanks, Artillery In Baltics, Eastern Europe
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says Washington will preposition tanks, artillery, and other military equipment in Eastern and Central Europe, in a move to reassure NATO allies concerned by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Youth will serve: Poland’s young mobilize into militias
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Three Ukrainian Civilians Reported Killed Ahead Of Paris Talks
Ukrainian rebels on June 23 accused government forces of killing three civilians in attacks launched hours before the start of talks in Paris on ways to stop the separatist conflict. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Putin’s Seaside Mafia State
Russian-occupied Crimea is awash with human rights abuses, but a new report points a creative (nonviolent) way forward. …read more Source: The Daily...
Carter: US Will Not Rely on ‘Cold War Playbook’ With Russia
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the United States “will not rely on the Cold War playbook” in dealing with Russia, but instead will rely on a combination of military and non-military tools to counter Russian aggression in Ukraine. He spoke in Berlin before traveling Tuesday to Estonia for meetings with the defense ministers of...
NATO-Russia Collision Ahead?
If the Pentagon is indeed moving U.S. troops and heavy weapons into Poland and the Baltic States, and is about to provide arms to Kiev to attack the rebels in East Ukraine, we are headed for a U.S.-Russian confrontation unlike any seen since the Cold War. …read more Source: CNS...
U.S. to Support NATO Rapid Response Force with Troops, Equipment
The United States will support a new NATO rapid response force with troops, intelligence, and equipment, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in Germany Monday. NATO defense chiefs are meeting in Brussels this week. On the agenda is devising updated strategies to resist Russian aggression and an expanding Islamic State. American support for the...
15 Ways Bill Clinton’s White House Failed America and the World
Many Americans do not associate Clinton with his dark legacy. Bill Clinton remains one of America’s most popular presidents. A national poll last March by NBC and the Wall Street Journal found 56 percent of Americans had a clearly favorable view of Clinton. That’s long been true for African Americans—from novelist Toni Morrison...
Russia Is Biggest Force Against Democracy In Eurasia, Report Finds
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
