Section: US & Canada
The End of the American International Order: What Comes Next?
This is the text of a speech delivered by Ian Bremmer on November 18 at the 2019 GZERO Summit in Tokyo. China has made its decision. Beijing is building a separate system of Chinese technology—its own standards, infrastructure, and supply chains—to compete with the West. Make no mistake: this is the single most consequential geopolitical decision...
Sondland Kept Mulvaney, Perry Looped In To Ukraine Pressure Campaign
Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland, slated to publicly testify in the impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, kept acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Energy Secretary Rick Perry apprised of the Ukraine pressure campaign, according to emails obtained by the Wall Street Journal. In one exchange, he assured the two that Ukraine...
Trump attacks another witness as his impeachment defense faces new tests
President Donald Trump’s impeachment angst led him to fire off a new attack on a key witness and threatens to deepen in the frenetic week ahead with crucial testimony scheduled from officials caught in the middle of the Ukraine storm. But as is perpetually the case with the President, a brew of competing scandals and controversies will...
Russia Returns Three Navy Vessels To Ukraine Almost A Year After Seizing Them
Russian has returned three navy vessels to Ukraine almost a year after seizing them near the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea that Moscow illegally annexed in 2014. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Russia hands back 3 seized ships to Ukraine
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized in a shooting confrontation nearly a year ago have been returned …read more Source:: ABC...
Russia hands back 3 seized ships to Ukraine
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized in a shooting confrontation nearly a year ago have been returned. The two gunboats and a tug were taken … Click to Continue » …read more Source:: The Bellingham...
Russia hands back 3 seized ships to Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s Foreign Ministry says three Ukrainian naval ships that were seized in a shooting confrontation nearly a year ago have been returned. The two gunboats and a tug were taken by the Russian coast guard on Nov. 25, 2018, as they passed through the Kerch Strait that … …read more Source:: The Washington...
Donald Trump and the Absolute Power Presidency
Those who tuned into last week’s congressional testimony from Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, heard an awkward phrase over and over again: that political appointees “serve at the pleasure of the president.” For most of those present, the idea that President Donald Trump can lawfully remove ambassadors and other top...
70% of Americans say Trump’s actions tied to Ukraine were wrong: POLL
An overwhelming 70% of Americans think President Donald Trump’s request to a foreign leader to investigate his political rival, which sits at the heart of the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, was wrong, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds. …read more Source:: National...
Sondland testimony looms over impeachment hearings this week
Dramatic testimony from U.S. diplomats working in Ukraine have significantly raised the stakes for this week’s impeachment inquiry appearance from Gordon Sondland, the mega-donor to President Trump who is now the U.S. ambassador to the European… …read more Source:: The...
