Section: US & Canada
Here’s Why Geopolitical Chaos Hasn’t Caused Oil Prices To Spike (OIL, USO)
Oil markets have been startingly calm in recent months despite unrest in some of the world’s largest oil producing regions. The price of London-traded Brent crude oil is actually down $5 since mid-May. The reason is that the world doesn’t need as much of the stuff right now — and global production continues to ramp up. Tuesday,...
Russian ‘Humanitarian Aid’: What We Know And Don’t Know So Far
Just 24 hours after the Kremlin announced a “humanitarian convoy” was being sent to eastern Ukraine, a bevy of statements from Russian, Western, and Ukrainian officials — and a convoy about 300 large white trucks — leave unanswered questions. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia Sends Aid to Ukraine, Raises Red Flags
A Russian convoy of 280 trucks sets off from Moscow, en route to eastern Ukraine. Russian authorities say they’re bringing much needed food, water and other aid to the region, where Ukrainian forces are closing in on pro-Russian rebels. But Kiev believes the convoy is a trojan horse. And Deputy foreign minister Danylo Lubkivsky says the...
Russia Begins Military Exercises in Island Chain Partly Claimed by Japan
Russia began military exercises in a Pacific island chain parts of which are also claimed by Japan, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a potential blow to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to keep the door open to dialog with Moscow despite strains over the Ukraine crisis. Exercises began involving military...
Ukraine says Russian aid can enter under scrutiny of Red Cross
A convoy of 280 Russian trucks reportedly packed with aid headed for eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, but Kyiv said it would only allow the goods through under the close supervision of the international Red Cross. …read more Source:...
With the Ukrainian President
Kiev, August 11, 2014 I had not seen Petro Poroshenko since his election. He greeted me in a large panelled room where the gold leaf had an oddly rosy tint. Ukrainian television cameras ran for the first few minutes of our interview. The president brought up our initial encounter in the Maidan that Sunday in February, at a time when the fate of...
John Kerry sees hope for easing of Ukraine tensions
The Obama administration is cautiously hopeful diplomacy can ease tensions between Ukraine and Russia over Moscow’s insistence on sending humanitarian aid to pro-Russian areas of eastern Ukraine, U.S. …read more Source: New York Daily...
Wary Ukraine Sets Conditions for Russian Aid Convoy
A Russian convoy of 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid for Ukraine set off on Tuesday. …read more Source:...
Ukraine to deny access to Russian aid convoy
Some fear the aid shipment may be a pretext for sending in Russian troops …read more Source: USA...
Obama’s Hidden-Hand Foreign Policy
Over six years of his presidency, President Obama has pursued a down-sized foreign policy that has mixed diplomacy, sanctions and force in varying measures to protect American national security interests abroad — without involving US ground forces. Obama began this approach from Day 1 of his presidency when he negotiated the withdrawal of...
