Section: US & Canada
Thousands dodge Ukraine army in fight with rebels
The government has struggled to mobilize young men to fight separatists. …read more Source: USA...
Ukraine’s Astroturf Revolution
On the one-year anniversary of the day Russians and Ukrainians clashed on the fiery streets of Odessa, terror attacks and “fake People’s Republics” are still worrying officials on both sides. …read more Source: The Daily...
US, Ukraine Urge Russia to Pursue Political Solution to Ukraine Conflict
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk have urged Russia to fulfill its commitments under the Minsk agreement, which calls for a political solution to the conflict in Ukraine and a de-escalation of military involvement. The White House said the two men issued the appeal Friday in a phone conversation that...
Ukraine Seeks $16 Billion From Gazprom In Dispute
Ukraine is seeking more than $16 billion from Russian energy company Gazprom in its appeal to an arbitration court in Stockholm over a long-running gas pricing dispute between Kiev and Moscow. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
National Post View: An ill-chosen moment for Chrétien to be meeting with Putin
Former government leaders often find it difficult to leave behind the ego-boosting lifestyle that comes with election to their country’s highest office. Limousines, swank hotels, photo ops with similarly eminent international worthies … it’s a heady world to lose just because you’re no longer in power. Thus it must have been a...
Why is the West Spoiling for a Fight with Russia?
Photo by Kremlin.ru What are the consequences when elected governments make policy based on faith and imperial hubris instead of science and expertise? It’s a question that is forcing itself on the world as we watch the United States, Britain, NATO and the Harper government continue to up the ante in the confrontation with Russia over the...
Finland sent letters to 900,000 military reservists reminding of what to do in a ‘crisis situation’
Finland’s military has sent letters to the country’s entire 900,000 strong reservist force outlining what each individual should do in the event of a “crisis situation,” Newsweek reports citing local Finnish media. The potential mobilization of 900,000 people in Finland would be a massive undertaking. With a population of...
A Fly’s View of America’s War Against Vietnam, Part One
Photo from National Archives The US invaded Vietnam publicly in the “wake” of the so-called Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. Since then this action by the US regime is customarily dignified by the term “intervention”. Although the pretext for the congressional resolution was at least suspicious then and long since discredited as fraudulent, the...
The Baltimore Spring
In the early months of 2011 what soon became known as the Arab Spring arrived from Tunisia to Egypt, to Cairo, to Tahrir Square. And what did its arrival bring? It brought street protests of a rather heterogeneous nature. There was a small but telegenic cadre of idealist youth demanding a new politics, if not a specifically democratic politics....
Trenches Replace Sandcastles on Ukrainian Front Line
SHYROKYNE, Ukraine—For months, pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces have battled for the beachside town of Shyrokyne, which is about eight miles east of Mariupol. The fighting has been intense. Most of the town has been left in ruins. Nearly every vertical surface is pockmarked by shrapnel, and almost every window is broken. Artillery...
