Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Ukraine’s Next Energy Minister Will Be Bought and Paid For, As Usual
A month after Ukrainian general elections, there is still no new government, and elite power circles are playing a very dangerous game with the country’s most important ministry–energy. It’s a game from which Ukraine will not recover for decades in the best-case scenario. The past week has seen a flurry of media activity...
Russia Warns Of Recession In 2015 Amid Sanctions And Low Oil Prices
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian government has acknowledged that the country will fall into recession next year, battered by the combination of Western sanctions and a plunge in the price of its oil exports. The news caused the stock market to drop and pushed the ruble to a fresh record low against the dollar. The economic development ministry on...
The Long Game vs. Today’s Global Challenges
This post is adapted from remarks made at Yale University on December 1, 2014. This is not the welcome I get when I walk into the UN Security Council. I should come here more often. It is, it’s wonderful, truly wonderful, very moving for me to back. I came to Yale from Atlanta, Georgia. I went to a public high school in Atlanta, Georgia;...
Ukraine Conflict: Government Troops, Russian-Backed Rebels Agree To New Cease-Fire
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — International monitors in eastern Ukraine say government troops and Russian-backed separatist forces in the Luhansk region have agreed on a new cease-fire. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said in a statement late Monday that hostilities will cease Friday along the line of contact between the warring...
Russia Is Returning to Soviet Military Strategy
French President Francois Hollande has essentially vetoed the transfer of the first Mistral helicopter carrier to Russia. The Elysee Palace announced that Moscow’s actions in Ukraine do not create the necessary conditions for the transfer of the warship. In response, Russian officials threatened to appeal to international arbitration and...
The American Global Stance as Chuck Hagel Departs
As the public conversation in America remains preoccupied, as it rightly should, with our ongoing anger at the injustice perpetrated in Ferguson, other issues of equal importance are slipping by without the degree of attention they deserve. The resignation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense is one such issue. That resignation should have...
Sergei Khrushchev — Mother Russia’s Inheritor
By MIKE MCDOWALL — OZY Dr. Sergei Nikitich Khrushchev’s voice takes me back to a childhood spent watching Cold War-era spy films. It is raspy, Slavic, heavily accented and somehow — here I betray my own prejudices — sinister. Sergei was 18 when his father, Nikita, succeeded Josef Stalin to become first secretary of the Communist Party...
NATO Aims To Have Rapid-Reaction Force By Next Year
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO expects to have an interim rapid-reaction force in place by next year to deal with new security challenges in Europe and elsewhere, the alliance’s secretary-general said Monday. Jens Stoltenberg said the force would be a provisional step until a full-scale unit can be organized in 2016. Stoltenberg said Germany, Norway...
Our Common Real World: Some Reflections on Greece and Turkey
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing the world. John Lennon, my generation’s hero, tried in his own way to spread the message of brotherhood and peace. Not surprisingly, some suspected him of subversion. I guess that even today the lyrics to...
Ukraine’s Military Claims A Large Convoy Has Entered From Russia
KIEV, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Sunday that a convoy of 106 vehicles had entered its eastern territory from Russia without Kiev’s permission and accused Moscow of once again using humanitarian aid shipments to send weapons and ammunition to separatist rebels. In the separatist-held city of Donetsk, fighting intensified at the...
