Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Russian Hackers Tracked Ukrainian Artillery Units Using Android Implant: Report
A hacking group linked to the Russian government and high-profile cyber attacks against Democrats during the U.S. presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday.The malware was able to retrieve...
IMF Chief Lagarde Found Guilty In French Tycoon Payout Trial
PARIS, Dec 19 (Reuters) – French judges convicted IMF chief Christine Lagarde on Monday of negligence for a state payout made while she served as France’s finance minister in 2008, but imposed no punishment, citing her preoccupation at the time with the global financial crisis.It was unclear whether the verdict would force Lagarde...
Russian Hacking May Have Helped Trump Win, but Russians Don’t Really Care
The recent CIA revelations that allege Russia assisted U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in his election win and reports of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s direct involvement with this interference are widely discussed in the United States, but they have so far created surprisingly little hype in Russia. In the past, when allegations of...
FBI Now Backs CIA Assessment That Russia Deliberately Tipped The Election In Favor Of Trump
WASHINGTON ― U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies agree that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee emails with the intention of tipping the election in favor of President-elect Donald Trump.The FBI, which previously told lawmakers it could not be sure of the motive behind the Russian cyberattack, now agrees with the CIA assessment...
Putin Is Giving America a Taste of its Own Medicine
MOSCOW ― When America won the Cold War, its democratic ideology of political openness triumphed. According to America’s liberal world order, the world is transparent and competitive, and no state’s affairs are a solely internal matter anymore.But hypocritically, the U.S. hasn’t applied this philosophy to itself – it only applied...
Rex W. Tillerson: America’s Advocate or Putin Apologist?
Rex W. Tillerson, C.E.O of Exxon Mobil, will face tough questions from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during his confirmation hearing for Secretary of State. The Committee will carefully examine Tillerson’s track record. There are several concerns, which include Exxon Mobils’s business in Iraq and its ties to Russia. Critics...
EU Agrees To Extend Russia Sanctions Until Mid-2017
European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc’s main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine for six months until mid-2017, diplomats said.The decision was expected and the formal process to extend the sanctions on Russia’s defense, energy and financial sectors will take place early next week, they...
Russia’s Surprising Friends & Alllies
When Americans think of the world, they see such major allies as England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the European Union and several key Third World countries. But when Americans think of Russia they see few allies. This perception was reinforced by the Russian defeat in the Cold War in 1991 which led to the loss of Eastern and Central Europe...
Trump’s United States may be a threat to United Nations
Co-authored by Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN’s 70th General Assembly, This is the first excerpt from our book on our experiences at the UN and in New York during the UN General Assembly’s 70th session, 2015-16, translated from the Danish The election of Trump is a threat to the United Nations’ mission and purpose. His...
Trump and ‘The Machurian Candidate’ Are Too Similar For Comfort
MOSCOW (Project Syndicate) ― Donald Trump’s transition from U.S. President-elect to taking power recalls nothing so much as a forgotten Hollywood genre: the paranoid melodrama. Perhaps the greatest film of this type, “The Manchurian Candidate,” concerns a communist plot to use the brainwashed son of a leading right-wing family to upend the...
