Section: Daily Kos (USA)
Obama administration announces sanctions against Russia for 2016 election hacks
The Obama administration has announced sanctions against Russian entities and individuals in retaliation for Russian state hacking efforts aimed at influencing the 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 Russian intelligence operatives from...
Does Trump’s idolization of Putin extend to how he’ll treat the free press as president?
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) issued its annual report this month. At least 48 journalists were killed in relation to their work, compared with 72 in 2015, the group said in an annual report. The group suggested that the final figures for 2016 could change, because it was still investigating the deaths of 27 journalists to determine...
Obama administration joins European Union in blacklisting 15 Russian entities
The Obama administration has slapped sanctions on 15 Russian individuals and businesses because of their involvement in projects in Ukraine and Crimea. The Treasury Department designated seven individuals and eight corporate entities involved in a range of projects, including the construction of a bridge connecting Russia to the Crimean...
Rex Tillerson, oil tycoon, is exactly the man you expected him to be
The New York Times has a good look at Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, and his rather rapid shift of opinion on whether Russia was a place with “no respect for the rule of law” or whether Vladimir Putin was a super-awesome business buddy once you discounted all those murdered journalists and civil...
State Department worried Trump is going to be the real madman of foreign policy theory
Foreign policy is a tricky beast for any new president, at any time. But 2016 presents some particular international challenges: ISIS, Syria, Russia and the Ukraine, Russia and Syria, China and Iran (to name just a few). When a new president is on the way, traditional adversaries might test the waters a bit by, say, seizing a U.S. unmanned...
Spotlight on green news & views: Climate scientists try to save data; don’t Corpus Christi water
Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) usually appears twice a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Here is the December 14 Green Spotlight. More than 26,140 environmentally oriented stories have been rescued to appear in this series since 2006. Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not necessarily...
Trump: Sanction Iran bigly! Trump’s SoS pick: Screw sanctions, they don’t do jack
During the campaign, Donald Trump made complaints about lowering of some sanctions against Iraq a standard part of his daily diatribe. Just last week, the Trump campaign discussed putting more sanctions in place. Donald Trump’s transition team is examining proposals for new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran, the Financial Times reported on...
Trump: Sanction Iran bigly! Trump’s SoS pick: Screw sanctions, they don’t do jack
During the campaign, Donald Trump made complaints about lowering of some sanctions against Iraq a standard part of his daily diatribe. Just last week, the Trump campaign discussed putting more sanctions in place. Donald Trump’s transition team is examining proposals for new non-nuclear sanctions on Iran, the Financial Times reported on...
Ukrainian aircraft company offers to build Trump’s new Air Force One instead of mean, cruel Boeing
Do you think Trump will take them up on it? The Ukrainian producer of the world’s largest aircraft has offered to build a plane for Donald Trump after the U.S. president-elect said an order with Boeing Co for a new Air Force One should be scrapped. “@realDonaldTrump May be it is better to consider #Antonov aircraft as Air Force One?,”...
