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    Rights group: Civilians abused by rivals in Ukraine conflict
    Jan12

    Rights group: Civilians abused by rivals in Ukraine conflict

    A human rights group says civilians are being abducted and tortured by fighters on both sides of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. An annual report released by Human Rights … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The Bellingham...

    Rights group: Civilians abused by rivals in Ukraine conflict
    Jan12

    Rights group: Civilians abused by rivals in Ukraine conflict

    A human rights group says civilians are being abducted and tortured by fighters on both sides of the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. An annual report released by Human Rights … Click to Continue » …read more Source: The News...

    HRW Report: Threats To Human Rights Increased In 2016
    Jan12

    HRW Report: Threats To Human Rights Increased In 2016

    Human Rights Watch says threats to human rights are increasing as authoritarian leaders tighten their hold on power in many countries and populist parties rise in the West. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Russia Concerned About US Troops in Poland
    Jan12

    Russia Concerned About US Troops in Poland

    Russia expressed concern Thursday about the arrival of U.S. soldiers and tanks in Poland, saying they are a threat to its security. The first contingent of American soldiers arrived in Poland from Germany Thursday, leading Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to call the operation a threat to Russia’s “interests and our security.” Eventually the...

    Arrival of U.S. troops in Poland sparks Kremlin’s ire
    Jan12

    Arrival of U.S. troops in Poland sparks Kremlin’s ire

    The deployment is part of NATO’s response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea …read more Source: USA...

    Exposing The Man Behind The Curtain
    Jan12

    Exposing The Man Behind The Curtain

    “When you attack a country,” John McCain, the long-serving Republican Senator from Arizona, who chairs the influential Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters on December 30, 2016, during a visit to Ukraine, a nation locked in a quasi-Civil War with Russian-backed separatist rebels, “it’s an act of war.”McCain was referring to...

    Ukraine Bans Broadcasts Of Independent Russian TV Station Dozhd
    Jan12

    Ukraine Bans Broadcasts Of Independent Russian TV Station Dozhd

    Ukraine has banned the prominent independent Russian television station Dozhd (Rain) TV from broadcasting in the country after a report identifying the boundary between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine as the Ukrainian-Russian border angered authorities in Kyiv. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Vice President Biden to Make Swansong Visit to Ukraine
    Jan12

    Vice President Biden to Make Swansong Visit to Ukraine

    U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will fly to Kiev on Sunday on a farewell visit by one of Ukraine’s strongest political supporters, as the country looks forward with apprehension to the new administration of Donald Trump. Biden, whose visit was announced by the office of President Petro Poroshenko, has been the front man for U.S. policy...

    Rex Tillerson’s rough ride: Trump’s State nominee bobs and weaves, but can’t hide from his past
    Jan12

    Rex Tillerson’s rough ride: Trump’s State nominee bobs and weaves, but can’t hide from his past

    Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, at his confirmation hearing (Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)) On Wednesday morning Donald Trump held his first press conference since July. It was immediately clear this was not going to be the day he executed the long-awaited pivot to presidential...

    Donald Trump’s New World Order Puts Nation Over Globe
    Jan12

    Donald Trump’s New World Order Puts Nation Over Globe

    In the West, elites are under attack. As many of the world’s most influential political and business leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, from Jan. 17 to Jan. 20, they will surely discuss, in public and private, how much things have changed since their gathering last year. Beyond Brexit and Trump, they’ll marvel at how Vladimir Putin...