Section: US & Canada
China’s Trans-Atlantic Wedge
China’s rise is no longer a regional phenomenon that primarily impacts Asia. It is a global force, putting pressure on alliances that underpin the liberal international order. Nowhere is this more true than in trans-Atlantic relations. China has just convinced America’s closest European allies to join the Asian Infrastructure...
In eastern Ukraine, a unique matzah factory puts food on Jewish tables
Workers at the Tiferet Matzot factory roll dough in Dnepropetrovsk on Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA) DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine (JTA) — With one eye on a digital countdown timer, Binyamin Vestrikov jumps up and down while slamming a heavy rolling pin into a piece of dough. Aware of his comical appearance to the journalist watching, he...
Russia Targets Danish Warships With Nuclear Weapons
Danish warships could become targets for Russian nuclear missiles if Denmark joins NATO’s missile defence system, Russia has warned, in comments that have sparked outrage in Copenhagen. Russia’s ambassador to Denmark, Mikhail Vanin, made the comments in an opinion piece published by the Danish national newspaper Jyllands-Posten, on...
NATO’s Creepy New Plan to Infiltrate Twitter and Facebook
NATO has announced that “countering false Russian narratives on social media” is a major priority. Here’s why you should be concerned. On Sunday, NATO commander General Philip Breedlove said in an interview with the Associated Press that NATO must do more to “counter Russian propaganda online”:NATO’s supreme commander says the West...
The United States Could Learn from Its British Ally
In the wake of the global recession, beginning with the financial crisis of 2008-2009, the British government of Prime Minister David Cameron took a different approach from the U.S. governments of George W. Bush and Barack Obama–eschewing massive government stimuli (that is, profligate spending) for the economy and instead focused on...
NATO chief: Russia still sending arms to Ukraine
Ed AdamczykBRUSSELS, March 23 (UPI) — NATO’s top military commander said Russia continues delivering armaments into Ukraine, and warned of the risk of not providing arms to stop separatists. …read more Source: United Press...
US troops drive in eastern Europe to show defense readiness
A U.S. army infantry convoy is driving through eastern Europe seeking to provide reassurance to a region concerned that the conflict between Russian-backed rebels and government forces in Ukraine threatens…Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...
US Troops Drive in Eastern Europe to Show Defense Readiness
US armored troops drive through eastern Europe to reassure allies in face of Ukraine conflict …read more Source: ABC...
Who Really Killed Boris Nemtsov?
No Hollywood director could have framed the grim scene better—or freighted it with more symbolism. On a drizzly Moscow night, a gunman follows Boris Nemtsov, a prominent political critic, and his girlfriend across a lonely bridge. Six shots are fired. As the victim lies bleeding, the domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin tower...
War of the Oligarchs in Ukraine
It appears that the truce that has held between Ukraine’s major oligarchs since the Maidan uprising is breaking down. Yesterday evening, Igor Kolomoisky, the strongman governor of Dniepropetrovsk, who also happens to be personally bankrolling many of the militias fighting Russian-backed militants on the eastern front, sent a detachment of...
