Section: US & Canada
MH17 investigators reach crash site two weeks after Malaysia Airlines jet brought down in Ukraine
Clashes near the wreckage site had kept the international team from reaching the area to retrieve up to 80 bodies that have been lying in open fields …read more Source: Calgary...
Ukrainian Soldier’s Mother Receives Letter From Son’s Killers
Volodymyr Yakobchuk died on June 17 in a rebel ambush outside the town of Metalist in eastern Ukraine. A separatist fighter then posted social media messages taunting at the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers caught in the ambush. Days later, the rebels sent Volodymyr’s mother a letter saying they killed the soldier for invading their land....
Ukraine’s Parliament Refuses PM Resignation
Ukraine’s parliament has rejected the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who announced last week his intention to step down after the two parties supporting him left the ruling coalition. The legislature voted Thursday not to accept Yatsenyuk’s resignation, despite his loss of political backing. The lawmakers also...
‘Mythical Creatures’ Is An Animated Holocaust Film Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen
Los Angeles artist Gary Baseman is currently raising funds for his upcoming film project, “Mythical Creatures,” based on the heartbreaking story of his father’s narrow escape from Poland during the Holocaust. Yet Baseman is plotting a film experience like no other, combining his father’s narrative with animation, theater...
European Court: Russia Must Pay Yukos Shareholders 1.9 Billion Euros
Europe’s top human rights court awarded shareholders in Yukos 1.9 billion euros [$2.6 billion] in damages on Thursday, a new blow to Russia days after some of the former oil company’s shareholders won $50 billion in The Hague. The Strasbourg-based court found that Russia had failed to “strike a fair balance” in its...
Ukraine government battles pro-Russia rebels
…read more Source: USA...
Photos July 31: Top images from around the world
The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 31: Elvish writing is seen on ‘Anduril’, a prop sword belonging to Aragorn, hero of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy on July 31, 2014 in London,...
Colin Kenny: Canada doesn’t have the military to back up its foreign policy
Stephen Harper likes to poke the bear – a.k.a. Vladimir Putin. The Canadian prime minister has slammed Putin’s “expansionism and militarism” and called the Russian president a “throwback” to the evil mindset of the Soviet Union. In terms of the words Harper uses, I appreciate his forthright condemnation of...
Monitors Reach Flight 17 Crash Site in Ukraine After Days of Delays
The Ukrainian government said it had suspended operations against pro-Russia rebels in the area to allow the monitors safe passage, Reuters reported. …read more Source: The New York...
Ukraine and the Media Drumbeat
Vietnam 1964 Fifty years ago, the American media aided the Johnson administration in leading the nation into war under false pretenses. Our media therefore bears some of the responsibility for a needless war which killed 58,000 Americans and over a million Vietnamese. (The photo below shows some of the victims of the infamous 1968 My Lai...
