Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Ukraine’s Donbas Is Like America’s Deep South
Many journalistic accounts — as well as the Kremlin’s propaganda machine — depict the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine’s separatist Donbas region and the Crimea as an aggrieved ethnic minority clamoring for nothing more than greater autonomy and cultural and language rights. Seen in this light, Kiev and...
Is Economic Warfare the Theme for 2015?
Is the Russian Ruble becoming financial rubble as consequence of targeting by the U.S. and its allies? The dramatic fall in oil prices and commensurate drop in the Russian currency, is this coincidental to broader global economic trends or an orchestrated assault? Will economic warfare become the weapon of choice for 2015 as contrary agendas...
Prominent Rebel Commander Of The ‘Batman’ Battalion Killed In Ukraine
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian security official says a prominent rebel commander in the separatist eastern region of Luhansk has been killed. A website of the separatist Luhansk People’s Republic said that Alexander Bednov, head of a battalion called “Batman,” was killed Thursday when separatist security forces tried to...
AirAsia Search And Rescue Find Two Large Objects
JAKARTA/PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (Reuters) – Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet have located two “big objects” in the Java Sea, agency chief Fransiskus Bambang Soelistyo told reporters on Saturday. The two objects found just before midnight on Friday are around 30 meters (90 feet)...
Know When to Fold ‘Em
Barack Obama reportedly takes pride in his skill as card player. Poker is the prime game of politics and politicians. The President’s record suggests that he is something less than its master. The list of those who have fleeced him is a long and varied one. It includes: the Republican Congressional leadership (habitually); the Wall Street...
Investigators To Use Acoustic Equipment To Search For AirAsia Black Boxes
PANGKALAN BUN/SURABAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) – A specialist multinational team armed with acoustic equipment will arrive at the suspected crash site of a sunken AirAsia jet off Borneo on Friday, bolstering the search for the plane’s black box flight recorders. Bad weather has hampered the search, keeping divers from looking for the...
The Rise of Anti-Government Protests Around the World and How to Reduce It in 2015
In recent years, citizens so frustrated with their governments slapped their elected officials (e.g. in Nepal and India), set themselves on fire outside state offices (e.g. Tunisia, Greece), launched mass protests against specific policies (e.g. Chile, Portugal, UK) and brought down entire regimes (e.g. MENA). 2014 was not remarkably different....
Russia’s Putin Sends New Year’s Message To Obama
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in a New Year’s message to U.S. President Barack Obama that Moscow is looking for equality in bilateral relations next year. The Kremlin on Wednesday published several dozen New Year’s messages addressed to heads of states and international organizations such as the Olympic...
Missing AirAsia Plane: Bad Weather Hobbles Efforts To Recover Victims Of Flight 8501
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — Bad weather hindered efforts to recover victims of AirAsia Flight 8501 Wednesday, and sent wreckage drifting far from the crash site, as grieving relatives “surrounded in darkness” gathered in an airport and prayed for the strength to move forward.The massive hunt for 162 people who vanished Sunday aboard...
Missing AirAsia Plane: Search Teams Use Sonar In Hunt For Doomed Flight In Java Sea
(Reuters) – Ships and planes resumed the search for wreckage, bodies and black boxes of a doomed AirAsia plane on Wednesday after Indonesian rescuers found several bodies and debris floating in shallow waters off the coast of Borneo. Indonesia’s search-and-rescue agency had obtained a sonar image it says may be the body of the missing...
