Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Ukraine’s Cease-Fire Expires
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Separatist rebels have not handed back border posts, laid down their weapons or fulfilled other conditions, Ukraine’s president said Monday in a phone call with the leaders of Russia, Germany and France. The call between President Petro Poroshenko, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Germany’s Chancellor Angela...
World War I, Rather than World War II, Is Key for U.S. Foreign Policy
The 100-year anniversary of the most important event in the 20th century passed recently with predictably scant notice in the American media. The anniversary can’t be that of the allied D-Day invasion of Normandy during World War II, because that event happened only 70 years ago. And it’s not the anniversaries of the attack on Pearl...
Asian Steel Industry Eats America’s Lunch
In the depth of the recession, some foreign countries made a simple calculation. They’d subsidize their steel industries even though that violates international trade rules. It paid off by keeping their citizens employed, paid and fed.These countries banked on dumping their excess steel in the United States. That has cost good,...
Russian TV Cameraman Killed In Ukraine, Moscow Protests
* Third Russian journalist killed in Ukraine conflict * Moscow protests, expresses concern about ceasefire (Adds Russian foreign ministry statement) MOSCOW, June 30 (Reuters) – A Russian television cameraman was killed overnight in shooting in east Ukraine which Moscow said undermined faith in Kiev’s desire to resolve weeks of...
