Section: US & Canada
These Are The 35 Most Powerful Militaries In The World
There’s only one real way to compare military strength, and thankfully the world hasn’t had many opportunities lately. Despite the potential powder keg in the South China Sea, standoffs in Ukraine, and proxy wars throughout the Middle East, inter-state warfare between the world’s military powers has been all but banished from...
Gorbachev on U.S.-Russia Relations: “We May Not Live Through These Days”
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has called for a U.S.-Russia summit to thaw relations between the two countries in the wake of the Ukraine crisis. Gorbachev, whose policies played a key role in ending the Cold War as well as democratizing Russia and the satellite states of the former Soviet Union, has warned that the...
BlackRock Thinks The US Economy Could Be A Major Outlier In 2015
BlackRock thinks the US economy could be an outlier in 2015. In its 2015 investment outlook, titled “Dealing With Divergence,” BlackRock sees the US experiencing a “pickup in growth” and improving labor markets. Financial conditions in the US are also expected to tighten. “US growth is on an upswing. We expect the US...
Ukraine to extend truce with separatists
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine will continue upholding a truce with Russian-backed separatists following a day largely free of exchanges of fire between the warring sides, a military spokesman in Kiev said Wednesday.Andriy Lysenko said there have been attacks on government positions over the previous day, but noted a significant reduction in their...
Change He Doesn’t Believe In
In June of this year, President Barack Obama lost his best foreign-policy talking point, a blow that — for a politician — can be worse than losing your best friend. When the Islamic State took over Mosul and threatened to march on Baghdad, Obama’s feat of having ended the Iraq War was summarily undone. Only weeks before, Obama had declared...
Britain Calls on NATO Help in Submarine Hunt
NATO patrol planes helped Britain scour the waters off its western Scottish coast after a submarine’s periscope was spotted, in a search reminiscent of the Cold War, media reported. Britain’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) said it had received NATO help in an operation, but declined to go into further details. News of the operation, first...
Does China’s Quest for Energy Security Threaten the United States?
While the United States and European Union strongly oppose Russia over its expansionist agenda in Ukraine, China has cautiously avoided having to take a side as the rhetoric became more and more heated. Russia’s increasingly fraught relationship with the West has strengthened China’s hand, allowing them to import cheaper gas from...
TIME’s Person of the Year: The Ebola Fighters
AUSTIN (KXAN) — TIME magazine has released its “Person of the Year,” and this year it goes to “The Ebola Fighters.” Check out more about this TIME says it made the choice because “they risked and persisted, sacrificed and saved.” The choice: Why the Ebola Fighters are TIME’s Person of the Year Who was on the shortlist? TIME managing editor...
Russian Spies Return to Europe in ‘New Cold War’
Earlier this month, experts convened in Brussels for a conference titled ‘The Second Cold War: Heating Up?’ Even among the plethora of current ‘New Cold War’ themed events, this one stood out: the organiser, Latvian MEP Tatjana Zdanoka, has been accused of being a Russian agent of influence – a spy. Zdanoka, who is also...
Ukraine Cease-Fire Holds for 2nd Day
Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian rebels are largely honoring a declared halt in hostilities for a second consecutive day in eastern Ukraine. Only sporadic gunfire was reported early Wednesday – 24 hours after both sides began observing the so-called “Day of Silence.” It is designed to encourage both sides to observe the wider...
