Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Russia’s Legislators Make New Turn in Recent Isolationist Trend
When Russian media reported at the end of July that legislators intended to introduce a set of amendments leading to a registry of companies allegedly connected to so-called “aggressor states,” our initial reaction was, “They can’t be serious.” But combine a few established concepts in the Russian political...
The Ukrainian Crisis’ Overlooked Nuclear Dimension
It has surprised and worried me that almost none of the mainstream media’s coverage of the Ukrainian crisis has mentioned the nuclear dimension to the risk. If the West feels (as it currently does) that Russia is solely to blame, and Russia feels (as it currently does) that the West is solely to blame, neither one is likely to back down....
Ukraine Conflict: Red Meat for Anemic NATO Alliance
The footage of President Obama strolling through the ancient ruins at Stonehenge was an apt bookend to the meeting of NATO, a Cold War relic that should have been abolished after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. But while hundreds of protesters marched through the streets calling for NATO to be dissolved — “From Iraq to...
Indonesia, America and China’s Nine-Dash Line
Jakarta–When the history of the early part of the 21st century is written, one of the great heroes of the People’s Republic of China might turn out to be an anonymous map-maker from the late 1940s whose work is helping to drive increasingly dangerous confrontations today between China and its neighbors across the South China Sea. The...
Ukraine Ceasefire Remains Shaky, But Still Holding
VIENNA, Sept 8 (Reuters) – The ceasefire in Ukraine has largely held but remains shaky, a senior official of European security watchdog the OSCE said on Monday. “Overall the ceasefire held even though it is still shaky,” Ambassador Thomas Greminger of Switzerland, the current chair of the Organization for Security and...
Free Scotland, Free New England!
Until recently, few people took seriously the possibility that Scotland might actually secede from the United Kingdom. However, with a referendum scheduled for September 18, the latest polls show secession in the lead for the first time, and gaining dramatic momentum. The British government is frantically scrambling to offer the Scots a much more...
Putin’s Whack-a-Mole Game Extends to NATO
On Friday Russia’s Federal Security Service (the FSB) kidnapped an Estonian intelligence officer at gunpoint, using a smoke bomb and jamming Estonian radio communications. Moscow later claimed it had captured a spy. This marks a disturbing new turn in Russia’s relationship with NATO, especially because it appears to have happened on...
Ukraine’s Ceasefire In Doubt After Deadly Shelling
SPARTAK, Ukraine (AP) — Clashes broke out Sunday outside the main rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, throwing the freshly forged cease-fire agreement between government troops and Russian-backed separatists into further doubt. At least two houses blazed in the rural village of Spartak, which lies just north of Donetsk and adjacent to the...
Ukraine Ceasefire Over? Shelling Reported Near Port City
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Witnesses in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol are reporting sustained explosions outside the city and a volunteer battalion of Ukrainian fighters says Grad rockets are being fired at its positions. The reports Saturday night come little more than a day after Ukraine and Russian-backed separatist rebels signed a cease-fire...
Russian Journalist: ‘Convincing Evidence’ Moscow Sent Fighters To Ukraine
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. Today, we turn to Russia’s involvement in the crisis in Ukraine. Finally good news out of Ukraine. After five months of fighting between government troops and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country, representatives of both...
