Section: US & Canada
‘New Faces’ For Ukraine: Local Elections Mark A Big Step Toward Decentralization Of Power
More than 1,400 Ukrainian communities will vote in local elections that follow key reforms aimed a dramatic restructuring of relations between local communities and the central government in Kyiv. Communities “will have more resources and decision-making power,” one analyst said. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
Joe Biden showed he learned the lessons of 2016
The bar was set so low — yet Donald Trump still failed to clear the mark. In his final debate performance of the 2020 campaign (and with any luck, his last one ever), the president fumbled the one attack line that his campaign had prepared against Joe Biden for years.It was like he whiffed at tee-ball.The first time Trump tried to hit the former...
US Navy F/A-18s would ‘destroy’ China’s J-15 carrier fighters in air-to-air combat today, but the future could be a different story
F/A-18E Super Hornets US Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe China’s carrier-based J-15 fighter jets have some advantages over the US Navy’s F/A-18s in air-to-air combat, but the limitations of China’s existing carriers negate them. “If you’re talking about the J-15 going up against the...
Russia has a secret chemical weapons program, and its scientists have been in contact with suspected Russian assassins, investigation says
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the State Council at the Kremlin in Moscow, April 21, 2014. Putin said on Monday he had signed a decree rehabilitating Crimea’s Tatars and other ethnic minorities, who suffered under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/Kremlin A year-long investigation by...
The Smears Against Biden Don’t Need to Make Any Sense
On Tuesday, Fox News’ Laura Ingraham broke some news: An “investigative journalist” named Matthew Tyrmand had uncovered a cache of 26,000 emails belonging to Hunter Biden’s disgraced business partner Bevan Cooney, who is now in jail. Tyrmand claimed that he had gotten hold of the emails via a person in the same facility as Cooney (a...
Trump Is Betting His Reelection on Ginning Up an Investigation
Donald Trump is trying to run his favorite play one more time: spreading unverified but salacious accusations, demanding that they be investigated, and then using the fact of the investigation to convince the public that something must be wrong. The biggest unanswered question of this election, with just 11 days to go, is whether he can pull it...
The Politicization of the State Department Is Almost Complete
I worked at the State Department for nearly four decades, in the later years as a four-time ambassador overseas and as a senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. I have watched as Pompeo and his predecessor, Rex Tillerson, have weaponized the institution for the Trump administration’s domestic political objectives. On October 9,...
Blue wave or not, expect to see a lot of Mitch McConnell in 2021
With the 2020 election less than two weeks away, many pundits are stressing that despite what the polls are showing, President Donald Trump might win a narrow Electoral College victory if he is able to outperform former Vice President Joe Biden in enough swing states. But Fox News’ ultra-conservative Rupert Murdoch is predicting that Biden...
Commentary: Hey, suburban women, you’re being played
This week in the cesspool of utter madness that is swallowing up a once great nation…A former partner of Hunter Biden has confirmed that the drug addict was inserted into high places within Chinese and Ukrainian business circles in order to trade access to then-Vice President Joe Biden for cash. You may remember China as the country that...
Rudy Giuliani declined offer of compromising Hunter Biden emails and images in May 2019
Rudy Giuliani, the personal attorney for President Donald Trump, was approached by someone offering allegedly compromising emails and images belonging to Hunter Biden in spring 2019, according to two individuals familiar with the meeting.Giuliani was approached with the offer while at a lunch in New York City in late May of last year, according...
