Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Dozens Of Ukraine Rebels Killed In Rocket Attack On Captured Airport Outside Donetsk
DONETSK, Ukraine (AP) — Russian-backed separatists in east Ukraine say 24 of their fighters have been killed in a rocket attack on the recently captured airport outside their main stronghold city of Donetsk. Rebel defense spokesman Eduard Basurin said the terminal was targeted by Ukrainian government forces Friday with Uragan multiple rocket...
A Neanderthal Foreign Policy
Neanderthals generally get a bad rap. If history is written by the winners, they are the world’s very first losers. After all, Neanderthals came out on the wrong end of the great evolutionary battle with our Homo Sapiens ancestors. Ever since, they have been portrayed as big, stupid, artless, lumbering brutes. Our smarter forebears wiped...
At The Ends Of The Earth… And In The Middle Of The Energy Wars
By EMILY CADEI — OZY There aren’t many places Ed Chow could fly to that would be farther from his Washington D.C. base than that nearly impossible-to-spell, ex-Soviet Union satellite Azerbaijan. Indeed, its ancient walled-city capital of Baku, with flat expanses far from most commercial hubs or route to an ocean, can really feel like...
More and War: The Tao of Washington
Cross-posted with TomDispatch.comWhen it comes to the national security state, our capital has become a thought-free zone. The airlessness of the place, the unwillingness of leading players in the corridors of power to explore new ways of approaching crucial problems is right there in plain sight, yet remarkably unnoticed. Consider this the Tao...
Ukraine, Russia Reportedly Agree On Withdrawal Of Heavy Arms
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Foreign Minister says Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a procedure for the withdrawal of heavy weapons in eastern Ukraine. Frank-Walter Steinmeier says his counterparts from Russia and Ukraine agreed that heavy arms should be pulled back 15 kilometers (9 miles) from a demarcation line defined in the Minsk agreement...
Davos 2015: International Conflict Is Top Global Risk
There is much discussion of global risks at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting this week, and illustrating today’s volatility is the fact that the biggest threat to the stability of the world — international conflict — was not even on last year’s list. That is the conclusion of the World Economic Forum’s 10th...
Rubio Knocks Potential 2016 Rivals On Foreign Policy Inexperience
WASHINGTON — The next occupant of the White House must have serious foreign policy experience, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) argued Wednesday, a qualification he seems to believe some of his potential presidential rivals may lack. “The next president of the United States needs to be someone that has a clear view of what’s happening...
Beware the Blowback From Russia Sanctions
Last month, as President Obama prepared to sign tougher sanctions legislation aimed at Russia, the top White House economist, Jason Furman, boasted that the West’s economic warfare was already bringing Russia to its knees. “If I was chairman of President (Vladimir) Putin’s Council of Economic Advisers, I would be extremely...
Assessing–Threat Assessments
The United States’ military is reported to greatly exaggerate the threat posed by China’s and Russia’s navies according to a prize-winning column in the Washington Post by Walter Pincus. Others have written about this bias, but Pincus documents it very effectively and above all succinctly. Pincus starts by summarizing a recent...
ONE ON ONE: Richard Edelman on the Evaporation of Public Trust
“Trust levels are at an all time low; comparable to those of the 2009 ‘Great Recession.'” – Richard EdelmanAs we look back on 2014, we saw a year of unimaginable events: from the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines 370 and the attack on their civilian aircraft over the Ukraine, to the Ebola epidemic that spread throughout...
