Section: Salon (USA)
A brief history of Russian interventions in other people’s elections
(Credit: AP) In the last nine years, Russia has invaded its neighbor Georgia, annexed the Ukrainian province of Crimea, supported rebels in Eastern Ukraine and interfered in the U.S. presidential election. The U.S. and the European Union have imposed biting sanctions on Russia for its actions in Ukraine. As a historian of Russian history, I find...
Bad boy gone worse: Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes slides from right-wing provocateur to the neo-Nazi fringe
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 03: Gavin McInnes attends “Creative Control” New York Premiere at Sunshine Landmark on March 3, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images) (Credit: Getty Images) For those who admire the current iteration of Vice, a hip-but-professional news and culture website that invests in things like...
Monica Crowley went from advising the president to lobbying for a Ukranian oligarch
Monica Crowley (Credit: Getty/Drew Angerer) A second national security adviser that has ties to President Donald Trump has registered as a foreign agent. Fox News contributor Monica Crowley, a vocal Trump supporter who was set to take on a role in the White House before plagiarism allegations stripped away that opportunity, is now lobbying on...
Trump’s military nostalgia is influenced by the war movies of his youth
A row of F18 fighter jets on the deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) is prepared for patrols off the disputed South China Sea Friday, March 3, 2017. The U.S. military took journalists Friday to the carrier on routine patrol off the disputed South China Sea, sending a signal to China and American allies of its resolve...
WikiLeaks’ CIA dump makes the Russian hacking story even murkier — if that’s possible
(Credit: AP/Kirsty Wigglesworth/Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Salon/Mireia Triguero Roura) Russia hacked the election. Russia didn’t hack the election. Russia sort of, maybe, possibly hacked the election. Is your head spinning from this story yet? The latest WikiLeaks disclosures concerning the CIA’s hacking abilities has further complicated...
Famines in the 21st century? It’s not for lack of food
A drought-affected corn field is not the cause of food shortages Famine killed nearly 75 million people in the 20th century, but had virtually disappeared in recent decades. Now, suddenly, it is back. In late February a famine was declared in South Sudan, and warnings of famine have also recently been issued for Somalia, Nigeria and Yemen....
Trump’s alleged computer server connection with a Russian bank continues to be investigated
(Credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) An alleged computer server connection between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, an influential financial institution in Russia with connections to both the Russian and Ukrainian elite, is still being investigated by the FBI, according to a new report by CNN. The FBI’s counterintelligence team, which...
If Sessions had nothing to hide, why did he try to hide it?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2017. () (Credit: AP Photo/Susan Walsh) There’s something out there that has a lot of people scared, but no one’s telling the full story. Yet. For months and weeks, bits and pieces of the continuing saga of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin,...
Vladimir Putin has a plan to upend the political order of the Middle East. Spoiler alert: It’s working
Vladimir Putin (Credit: AP/Khalil Hamra/Photo montage by Salon) In Washington, whenever the idea of Kurdish independence from Iraq comes up, all kinds of experts, former diplomats and officials declare, “Never going to happen.” Without fail, the assertion is always backed up with an elegant and well-informed statement of the serious challenges...
Russia today: What new information did we learn about the Trump-Russia connection?
Vladimir Putin; Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Alexei Nikolsky/Evan Vucci/Photo montage by Salon) The last 48 hours have seen such a massive unraveling of major news about President Donald Trump’s connections to Russia that we, quite frankly, didn’t know where to start. You may not either. So here’s roundup of major things that broke....
