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    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — key witness in Trump impeachment trial — announces military retirement following what he says was political retaliation
    Jul09

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — key witness in Trump impeachment trial — announces military retirement following what he says was political retaliation

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, announced his military retirement on Wednesday. What are the details? Vindman said that his future in the military would “forever be limited” due to political retaliation by Trump and his allies, according to his attorney, David Pressman....

    Vladimir Putin vs. “Citizen No”
    Jul09

    Vladimir Putin vs. “Citizen No”

    For me the enduring image of Russia in 2020 is a photo of a makeshift street voting station where an elderly election commission official is waiting for people to show up and take part in a “popular vote” to endorse the so-called “constitutional amendments”—more than 200 of them—proposed by Vladimir Putin. The woman in the photo bides her time in...

    Republicans Are Political Distancing From Trump
    Jul09

    Republicans Are Political Distancing From Trump

    Donald Trump has never been much for encouraging social distancing. He might end up getting political distancing as a result.This week, five senators announced that they will skip the Republican National Convention in August. A Republican governor up for reelection said he wouldn’t attend a Trump rally in his state. And Senator Lindsey...

    Amazon Fined for Violating U.S. Sanctions on Iran, Syria, Crimea
    Jul08

    Amazon Fined for Violating U.S. Sanctions on Iran, Syria, Crimea

    Online retailer Amazon has agreed to pay the U.S. government $134,523 for violating sanctions on Iran, Syria, and Crimea, according to the Treasury Department. The fines were issued as part of Amazon’s admission that it may be civilly liable “for apparent violations of multiple [U.S.] sanctions programs” administered by the...

    Why Life Feels Like a TV Show
    Jul08

    Why Life Feels Like a TV Show

    This season of America sucks.People said the show jumped the shark a few seasons back, when the powers that be decided on that whole Trump twist just a couple episodes after the Brexit plot line. I kept watching, even after season upon season of plot threads went nowhere (Ukraine? Impeachment?) and half the cast was abruptly written off (whatever...

    Lithuania Bans Russian Broadcaster RT Over Kremlin Ties
    Jul08

    Lithuania Bans Russian Broadcaster RT Over Kremlin Ties

    Lithuania took Russian broadcaster RT off-air on Wednesday, citing the channel’s ties to EU-sanctioned Russian media executive Dmitry Kiselyov. The move follows a similar ban on RT in Latvia last week, where regulator called RT “propaganda” and also said the channel was controlled by Kiselyov, the head of Russia’s...

    ‘Campaign of Bullying’ Prompts Key Trump Impeachment Witness to Quit Army
    Jul08

    ‘Campaign of Bullying’ Prompts Key Trump Impeachment Witness to Quit Army

    Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who testified on Trump’s withholding of aid to Ukraine, faced a White House block to further promotion. …read more Source:: Foreign...

    5 killed, 9 injured by wildfires in Ukraine
    Jul08

    5 killed, 9 injured by wildfires in Ukraine

    Ukrainian officials say that at least five people have been killed and another nine have been injured by wildfires raging in the country’s east …read more Source:: ABC...

    Russian Authorities Detain Crimean Tatar Activists
    Jul07

    Russian Authorities Detain Crimean Tatar Activists

    Russian authorities have detained seven Crimean Tatar activists after searching their homes in different parts of Ukraine’s Russia-controlled Crimea region. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said in a statement that it detained “three leaders and four members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group” in Crimea on...

    What A Nazi Soldier Saw In Ukraine
    Jul07

    What A Nazi Soldier Saw In Ukraine

    Chilling photographs shot in secret by a German soldier who took part in the invasion of the Soviet Union …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...