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    Mueller team claims Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors despite plea deal
    Jan16

    Mueller team claims Paul Manafort lied to prosecutors despite plea deal

    In November, special counsel Robert Mueller announced that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort had violated his plea deal by lying. Newly released documents from Mueller’s office reveal the extent of those alleged lies.What do the documents say?Konstantin Kilimnik was already a known person of interest in the Mueller investigation....

    Putin Blasts US, West Over NATO Before Serbia Visit
    Jan16

    Putin Blasts US, West Over NATO Before Serbia Visit

    Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. and the West of destabilizing the Balkans with NATO expansionist policies as Serbia prepares a hero’s welcome for the Russian president. Putin arrives in Serbia on Thursday for his fourth visit to the Balkan country since 2001. Serbia has maintained close links with traditional Slavic ally Russia even as...

    Ukraine’s Avdiyivka Coke Plant Roars Past Prewar Production
    Jan16

    Ukraine’s Avdiyivka Coke Plant Roars Past Prewar Production

    After being shelled repeatedly and pushed to the brink of shutdown, the Avdiyivka Coke and Chemical Plant in eastern Ukraine’s war-torn Donetsk region is once again running at full capacity. The factory is one of the largest coke producing plants in Europe and plays a vital role in fueling Ukrainian industry. It now produces purified coal...

    Francis Fukuyama’s Shrinking Idea
    Jan16

    Francis Fukuyama’s Shrinking Idea

    There’s an intriguing phenomenon in publishing you could call the One Great Idea book. Usually written by a leading senior scholar in an interdisciplinary field such as international relations, political philosophy, or comparative literature, the One Great Idea book displays a command of numerous languages and wide-ranging familiarity with...

    Deripaska’s Rusal Installs Kremlin Fanboy as White House Aims to Lift Sanctions
    Jan16

    Deripaska’s Rusal Installs Kremlin Fanboy as White House Aims to Lift Sanctions

    Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily BeastPutin-friendly oligarch Oleg Deripaska’s aluminum empire is trying to make nice with the U.S. in a bid to get out from sanctions, and that includes trying to clean up its corporate leadership. But the firm has quietly installed a new board chairman who has expressed support for the Russian...

    U.S. Charges Two Ukrainians In Hack Of U.S. Security Regulator
    Jan16

    U.S. Charges Two Ukrainians In Hack Of U.S. Security Regulator

    According to the U.S. criminal complaint, the scheme, which netted $100 million in illegal profits, involved hacking into a database run by the Securities and Exchange Commission, between February 2016 and March 2017. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Donald Trump campaign sided with Ukraine over Russia
    Jan16

    Donald Trump campaign sided with Ukraine over Russia

    To Trump campaign veterans, the stories surrounding the 2016 Republican Party platform debate on Ukraine have fed a myth as large as the Christopher Steele dossier’s unproven anti-Trump allegations. The narrative has arisen again. The New York Times reported that the FBI opened an inquiry in May 2017 into whether … …read more...

    The Left, the Wall, and the Truth
    Jan16

    The Left, the Wall, and the Truth

    Democrats and others on the left offer three reasons for their opposition to building a wall on America’s southern border. A wall is ineffective. A wall is too expensive. A wall is immoral. Each one is false, so false as to constitute lies. So, the only question is: Do Democrats and others on the left believe these lies? This question has...

    Families of detained Ukrainian sailors weep, applaud as Russia brings them to caught
    Jan15

    Families of detained Ukrainian sailors weep, applaud as Russia brings them to caught

    The sailors were captured when Russia seized 3 Ukrainian navy ships in November …read more Source: ABC...

    Donald Trump’s Pattern of Deference to the Kremlin Is Clear
    Jan15

    Donald Trump’s Pattern of Deference to the Kremlin Is Clear

    When Donald Trump gives interviews, it’s usually to Fox News. When he gives interviews to Fox, it’s usually to the channel’s opinion side, not to tougher questioners like Chris Wallace or Bret Baier. But there he was Sunday night, talking to the normally friendly Jeanine Pirro and receiving what he called the most insulting...