Section: US & Canada
14 Billionaires Who Started With Nothing — Including Jack Ma And Larry Ellison
Forbes released its annual Forbes 400 list on Monday, revealing the 400 wealthiest people in the US. It’s not just a list of privilege; it’s a story of opportunity. Many of these mega successes started with limited means. Just ask Jan Koum, the WhatsApp founder who once lived on food stamps. After selling his company to Facebook in...
Merkel: EU-Russia Energy Partnership Might Need Rethinking
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday there were good reasons to continue the European Union’s energy partnership with Russia for the time being but that might change if Moscow continues to violate basic principles. Merkel, speaking at a news conference in Berlin with Finland’s Prime Minister Alexander Stubb, said that in the...
Mandatory Palestine: What It Was and Why It Matters
TIMEThe map above is from a 1929 TIME article titled “Islam vs. Israel”—even though, as the map makes clear, in 1929 there was no country called Israel. (On a desktop, roll over to zoom; on a mobile device, click.) MoreOff the Battlefield, Hackers Are Waging Cyberwar Against Israel and PalestineMaggie Gyllenhaal on Israel and Palestine — and How...
THE EUROPEAN CHESSBOARD: Here’s A Map Of The Russia-NATO Confrontation
The war in eastern Ukraine is in a state of ceasefire, but if the past seven months are any indication, this halt in hostilities won’t spell the end of the most severe geopolitical crisis between Russia and the west since the end of the Cold War. In the economic and diplomatic realm, Russia is attempting to choke off Ukraine’s supply...
Leonid Bershidsky: Ukraine is toppling Lenins 20 years too late
The Lenin statue in Kharkiv was the biggest in Ukraine. Perhaps that’s why it lasted longer than most, escaping what has been called the Leninfall — the mass teardown of monuments to the Soviet Union’s founder that Ukraine’s Euromaidan revolution set off this year. It is now toppled, too, but it’s hard to see what that...
Kelly McParland: Obama’s about-face blows a hole in soft power’s fantasy world
President Barack Obama sudden about-face at last week’s high-profile UN gathering has only exacerbated the difficulty “progressives” have in sorting out how to bring order to the world. Mr. Obama came to office preaching one approach — dialogue, diplomacy, co-operation, brotherhood — and it didn’t work. Now he’s trying bombs....
9 Ukrainian soldiers killed in Donetsk
Nine Ukrainian soldiers are killed by tank fire at the airport in the flashpoint city of Donetsk, the country’s state news agency reports …read more Source:...
12 killed in worst east Ukraine shelling in a week
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Eastern Ukraine has suffered the worst violence in more than a week as fighting between pro-Russian rebels and government troops in the region killed at least 12 people and wounded 32, officials said Monday. […] the city council of Donetsk said in a statement published online that at least three civilians were killed...
Meet ‘Hunter’, The American Fighting for the Ukrainian Separatists
With his face hidden behind a camouflage balaclava and an assault rifle slung over his shoulder, “Hunter” looks like other separatist fighters in eastern Ukraine. What distinguishes him from his brothers in arms in the Vostok (East) battalion, an irregular pro-Russian militia fighting government forces, is his American accent –...
Moscow Court Prolongs Detention For Ukrainian Director
A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detention of Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, who was arrested in Crimea and accused of plotting terrorist attacks. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
