Section: US & Canada
Weekend Roundup: Is Europe Imploding?
Europe is facing divisive challenges on all fronts. It is being torn within by hardening attitudes toward the growing presence not only of Muslim immigrants, but also of citizens. On Monday, demonstrators thronged the streets of Dresden in support of “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the Occident.” On Wednesday in...
World Briefing: Ukraine: Separatists Intensify Attacks on Army Posts
At least six Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in more than two days of fighting as separatists intensified shelling of government positions ahead of peace talks expected in the coming week, Ukrainian military officials said Friday. …read more Source: The New York...
Russia’s Downgrade Paints A Horrific Picture Of Economic Collapse
Fitch has downgraded Russia’s credit rating and painted a horrific picture of a struggling economy rocked by a collapsing rouble, falling oil prices, high inflation and declining international reserves. The ratings agency cut the country to BBB- from BBB with a negative outlook, meaning further downgrades are possible. But it was the...
The Sanctions-Proof Superpower
With the ruble in the dumps and the Russian economy in shambles, Vladimir Putin’s compatriots can easily count the cost of his territorial ambitions. Moscow depends on other countries for financing, capital investment, and export markets. Make those countries angry, and pillars of the Russian economy begin to collapse. Yet China, which has...
News of the Day From Across the Globe, Jan. 10
1 Saudi blogger flogged: A Saudi blogger convicted of insulting Islam was brought after Friday prayers to a public square in the port city of Jiddah and flogged 50 times before hundreds of spectators, a witness said. New Russian road safety regulations bar transsexuals, transvestites and others with sexual “disorders” from driving, ostensibly for...
Ordinary Ukrainians Are Using Facebook to Arm Their Soldiers
On November 21, 2013, as thousands of his fellow Ukrainians first gathered in Maidan Nezalezhnosti – Independence Square – in Kyiv to demonstrate against President Viktor Yanukovych, a 40-year-old IT entrepreneur named Yuri Biryukov felt a stirring of hope. Yanukovych’s decision not to sign t …read more Source: The New...
Eight killed in Ukraine as peace talk prospects dim
Donetsk (Ukraine) (AFP) – Four Ukrainian soldiers and at least as many civilians died Friday in an upsurge of rocket attacks that came just as prospects for international peace talks on the nine-month crisis dimmed.Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of Donetsk said another nine residents were injured in sporadic clashes that...
Ukraine says separatists intensifying attacks
Ukrainian troops killed in more than two days of fighting as separatists intensify shelling of government positions ahead of peace talks. …read more Source: Toronto...
Longform’s Picks of the Week
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Treasury’s Cohen to Become CIA Deputy
David Cohen, the driving force behind the U.S. Treasury Department’s increasingly sophisticated use of financial warfare, has been tapped as deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The White House said Friday that it was nominating Cohen, 52, to replace the current CIA number two, Avril Haines, who is moving to the White House...
