Section: US & Canada
Here Are 5 Reasons the G7 Summit Was a Disappointment
Once upon a time the G7 countries ruled the world. Today, not so much. The leaders of Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Canada and the U.S. wrapped up their annual summit in Bavaria earlier this week. The results were disappointing to say the least. These five facts show why we no longer live in a G7 world—even if the G7 themselves...
Podcast: The Long War
According to an influential new report by Chatham House, the West needs to settle in for a protracted conflict with a weakening, but still very dangerous, Russia. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia’s $400-billion military modernization plan in jeopardy due to Western sanctions and lower oil prices
NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia — It has a remote-controlled turret, it bristles with state-of-the-art defence systems and its computerized controls make driving it feel “like playing a video game.” Russia’s Armata tank, which its creator says can be turned into a fully robotic combat vehicle, is the crowning glory of a sweeping military modernization...
Russian Youth Pays Price For Speaking Out Over Ukraine
A teenager from a Moscow suburb has alienated his family and schoolmates and attracted the attention of the police for his criticism of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. “You are my enemy,” his own grandfather told him. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Canadian Jewish leaders, East European officials talk restitution
TORONTO (JTA) — Holocaust survivors and Jewish community leaders from Canada met with representatives of central and eastern European countries in an effort to speed restitution of war-era property. Over two days in Ottawa earlier this week, meetings took place with ambassadors or delegates from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia,...
Ukraine’s Neo-Nazis Won’t Get U.S. Money
What happens to the far-right militia when this round of fighting ends? …read more Source:...
Malaysia Airlines Plane Forced to Turn Around After Engine Fire Concern
As though Malaysia Airlines hasn’t had enough problems of late, there was an incident Thursday evening concerning Flight 148. The plane took off from Melbourne and was headed to Kuala Lumpur before being forced to return to Australia after an engine fire light came on in the cockpit. Though the light indicated an engine fire, the plane was...
Ex-Pussy Riot member stages Moscow performance protest with a sewing machine
MOSCOW — Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot fame, along with activist Katya Nenasheva, staged a brief performance in support of female prisoners at central Bolotnaya Square before being dragged away by police officers. See also: Ukraine’s children of war Donning drab makeshift prison garb with hand-scrawled serial numbers, the women laid out...
Obama’s Grave Miscalculations
Driving residents from their homes, imposing an iron-fisted dictatorship, looting and murder—no, this isn’t ISIS in Iraq. It’s the Shi’a militias backed by Iran and the government that President Obama has a kinda-sorta strategy for working with. The Times of London: The Iranian-backed Shia militias used by the embattled Iraqi...
Analysis: Harper’s European trip has domestic political overtones
VATICAN, Vatican City – As Prime Minister Stephen Harper was being shepherded around the Vatican’s inner corridors for his meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, a mild kerfuffle broke out over the giving of gifts.A Vatican reporter noted that Harper did not come bearing one. His staff went to pains to email journalists travelling...
