Section: US & Canada
Putin Annexes Chessboard
A match to decide the world chess champion may be unraveling over financial issues related to the crisis in Ukraine. …read more Source:...
Here’s How The World’s Richest Terrorist Group Makes Its Millions
ISIS is now the wealthiest terrorist organization on the planet, according to Foreign Policy. And the Al Qaeda offshoot has the ambition and perhaps even the organization needed to put its piles of oil and smuggling-related profits to work, as its several-hundred page-long annual report from this past March demonstrates. Some experts believe that...
REPORT: The FBI Is Probing Whether Russia Hacked US Banks In Retaliation For Sanctions
Bloomberg’s Michael Riley and Jordan Robertson report the FBI is probing whether Russia may be tied to hacking and theft of data at JP Morgan and another U.S. bank in retaliation for sanctions against its incursions in Ukraine. The banks reported the alleged hacks earlier this month, which they said resulted in large chunks of lost data....
Poland Appeals to EU About Russian Sanctions
Poland has requested the European Commission’s help in keeping Russia from blocking Polish shipments of goods through Russian territory. The Polish Infrastructure and Transport Ministry on Wednesday said Russia was blocking some of its export shipments to Kazakhstan and Mongolia, as well as to other countries. Russia banned most fruit and...
Russian-Directed Counteroffensive Likely Underway In Ukraine, U.S. Says
WASHINGTON, Aug 27 (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday new military incursions on Ukraine’s eastern border indicate a Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway in two Ukrainian towns. “These incursions indicate a Russian-directed counteroffensive is likely underway in Donetsk and Luhansk,” State...
Ukrainian troops in ‘full, chaotic retreat’ as Putin opens ‘third front’ in stealth war
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stealth war of attrition may be paying off. As evidence mounts that pro-Russian separatists are being supplied with new weapons from across the border, some Ukrainian soldiers are now refusing to fight. In Novoazovsk, a Ukrainian unit staring down tanks, artillery and infantry personnel responded to...
Ukrainian Sergeant: ‘This Is Now A War With Russia’
Ukraine and Western officials on Wednesday warned that Russian forces are opening up another, major front in the war, according to The New York Times. “This is what happened: they crossed the border, took up positions and started shooting,” Sgt. Aleksei Panko after telling the Times that about 60 armored vehicles crossed the border near the...
Russian armor attacking Ukrainian towns on new front, Kiev says
Russian armored vehicles have thundered into southern Ukraine and fired on the strategic town of Novoazovsk as the 5-month-old separatist battle broke open a new front, officials in Kiev said Wednesday. …read more Source: Los Angeles...
Putin’s Cherished Deniability Is Shattered
Russian paratroopers are now fighting, and dying, in Ukraine. So are Putin’s attempts to deny Russia’s direct involvement in the conflict. …read more Source:...
Glavin: What’s so wrong with involving diasporas in foreign policy?
Let’s say that the critics are right, that the Conservatives are indeed running this country’s foreign policy in ways that are most sedulously attentive to the sensitivities of Canada’s diverse and sundry ethnic and immigrant communities. Let’s say that the potential votes of 1.3 million Ukrainian-Canadians has been the...
