Section: US & Canada
Obama says Russia cannot redraw borders ‘at barrel of a gun’
Washington (AFP) – US President Barack Obama warned after meeting Monday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Ukraine crisis that the West cannot allow Russia to redraw Europe’s borders “at the barrel of a gun.””We continue to encourage a diplomatic resolution to this issue,” Obama told a joint press...
Does Putin Want War or Negotiations?
Confusion, confusion, confusion! This is how Russian President Vladimir Putin, increasingly isolated from Western conversations, keeps the world on its toes. Because only he has any answers. The conflict in eastern Ukraine is ever more fierce. Russian-supported rebels in the occupied cities of Donetsk and Luhansk now use sophisticated weapons to...
EU ministers urge Russia to free imprisoned Ukraine pilot
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers have launched a plea for Russia to free a Ukrainian air force officer who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison.Fourteen EU ministers and the French ambassador on Monday held pictures of Nadezhda Savchenko and urged Russian authorities to free the “illegally abducted Ukrainian...
EU ministers urge Russia to free imprisoned Ukraine pilot
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have launched a plea for Russia to free a Ukrainian air force officer who has been on hunger strike in a Russian prison. Fourteen EU ministers and the French ambassador on Monday held pictures of Nadezhda Savchenko and urged Russian authorities to free the “illegally abducted Ukrainian pilot.” The...
Angela Merkel, Obama try to bridge differences on arms to Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a swirl of diplomatic maneuvering, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel huddled at the White House Monday to evaluate the prospects of reviving an elusive peace plan to end the conflict between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists. Hanging over the discussions was a potential split … …read...
EU ministers urge Russia to free imprisoned Ukraine pilot
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union foreign ministers have launched a plea for Russia to free a Ukrainian air force officer who has been on hunger… …read more Source:...
John McCain compares peace talks with Putin to appeasement of Hitler: ‘Dictators will always take more’
A dispute between Europe and the U.S. threatened to derail peace talks as it was announced that Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president will meet Wednesday in Minsk …read more Source: Vancouver...
Far From Waning, America Has Become a True World Empire
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia — What is the nature of the modern world order? Answers to this question are incalculably many. However, the one provided by Salvatore Babones, a native New Yorker and currently a professor at the University of Sydney, has recently struck me as probably the most compelling. Challenging the conventional wisdom, Babones...
America Needs a More Focused and Restrained National Security Strategy
As the American cable news entertainment channels focus on the artificial “American Sniper” controversy, the Obama administration’s issuance of its second and final national security strategy (the last one was done in 2010) was buried deep in the back pages of the newspapers. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t choose to...
John McCain compares peace talks with Putin to appeasement of Hitler: ‘Dictators will always take more’
A deepening dispute between Europe and the United States threatened to derail efforts to bring peace to Ukraine Sunday, even as it was announced that Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, the Ukrainian president, will talk face-to-face at a new summit in Minsk on Wednesday. The meeting, which will include Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, was...
