Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Meet The Young Revolutionary Taking Ukrainian Politics By Storm
In just under a year, Hanna Hopko has gone from being a ringleader in anti-government protests to taking a seat in Ukraine’s new parliament. Her trajectory is symbolic of the momentous shifts Ukraine has undergone in the past 12 months. Her story also highlights the challenges faced by the young activists who ousted former President Victor...
UN: Killings, Displacement Increase In Ukraine
GENEVA (AP) — Nearly 300 people were killed since Oct. 18 in fighting which continues in eastern Ukraine despite a cease-fire agreement, United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday. A new report from the U.N. monitoring team in Ukraine said at least 4,317 people have been killed — up from the 4,042 deaths reported in October — from...
André Glucksmann in His Voltairean Garden
How many of us remember that Europe is a new and unprecedented political creation born from the triple rejection of Nazism, Communism, and colonialism? How many continue to venerate the models of lucidity and courage, the examples of combativeness and greatness, that were the Vaclav Havels, the Sakharovs, the founders of Solidarnosc, the fiery...
The Dance of Superpowers
By now, the phrase “Pacific Pivot” gives off a whiff of nostalgia. The Obama administration’s announcement of its intention three years ago to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia seems to belong to an entirely different era. It was a time when the United States had the luxury to think geopolitically: to craft long-term...
British Embassy In Ukraine Trolls Putin With Guide For Spotting Russian Tanks
The latest foreign office to engage in the increasingly popular sport of Twitter-trolling the Kremlin is Britain’s embassy in Ukraine, which on Wednesday released a handy guide to help Russians spot their own tanks. The embassy’s official account tweeted an infographic detailing some of the features of Russia’s T-72 BM tanks,...
FATCA: Are Transnational Criminal Networks Influencing US Policy?
The New York Times’ report on prominent American think tanks receiving some$92 million from a minimum of 63 governments since 2011, prompted Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) to ask Attorney General Eric Holder, a long overdue question: “Should think tanks be allowed to take undisclosed donations from foreign governments?” According to...
Is Obama Weak on Foreign Policy?
One reason that Barack Obama is slumping in the polls is that Republicans have successfully painted him as weak on foreign policy. Yet, during his tenure so far, Obama has used air power to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, surged American forces in Afghanistan to satisfy the U.S. military, re-entered the civil war in Iraq, and extended the...
Don’t Mention the Climate!
Don’t Mention The Climate The efforts of the Australian Prime Minister to keep climate change strictly off the G20 agenda is proving farcical. World leaders including Barack Obama, Ban Ki Moon and Pope Francis have in unison advocated that climate change is a defining global problem which ought to be on the G20 Agenda in Brisbane. Climate...
America Is Not a 911 Number
On a recent visit to Europe I was most struck by the latent and open anti-American sentiments that are contaminating the political elites across the continent. This is especially strange in a year when we commemorate the end of the Cold War, the ending of the divide across the continent, which would never have happened without the perseverance...
Putin Says Sides Not Abiding Peace Deal In Ukraine
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s president said he believes peace in Ukraine is possible but that neither side is fully holding up a truce struck in September. In an interview with German television broadcast late Sunday, Putin said he was convinced that it was possible to end the deadlock in east Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels have been battling...
