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Russian Ambassador: We’re Not Hacking You, Promise
WASHINGTON ― Russia bears no responsibility for email leaks affecting the U.S. presidential race, the Russian ambassador to the U.S. told an audience here Tuesday.“We do not interfere into the internal affairs of the United States, neither by my statements nor by electronic or other means,” Ambassador Sergey Kislyak said at an event at Johns...
American Power At The Crossroads
A Snapshot of a Multipolar World in ActionCross-posted with TomDispatch.comIn the strangest election year in recent American history — one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he “admired” while Donald Trump remained intent on building his “fat, beautiful wall” and...
Putin’s challenge for the next US president
When Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump address security challenges to America and its allies in the next four years, Vladimir Putin’s Russia will loom large. This is no longer post-communist Russia attempting the transition to a market-based democracy and looking up to the West. That transformation was an epic failure. In Putin’s...
Russian Ambassador’s Defense of Trump Speaks Volumes About Interference in U.S. Election
Image: Russian President Vladimir Putin denies interfering in the U.S. presidential election in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump. Pixabay.com I love it when Russia gets caught with its pants down. Vladimir Putin has denied for months that Russia has been interfering in the U.S. presidential election to try to get Donald Trump elected....
ON THE RECORD: HILLARY CLINTON’S TENURE AT STATE
The views are those of the author.Hillary Clinton was an effective and well-respected Secretary of State at home and abroad. At the end of her time at State, a Washington Post-ABC news poll put her favorability rating at an astounding 67%. Reflecting on her work as Secretary, Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) said, “I think she’s...
U.S. Formally Accuses Russia Of Cyber Attacks Against Democratic Party Groups
By Jonathan Landay and Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations during the campaign for the Nov. 8 presidential election.U.S. officials have said in the past few months that they believe cyber attacks were orchestrated by...
It’s a new academic year in Gdansk
Gaudeamus igitur, iuvenes dum sumus! Let us rejoice while we are young! With this Latin song traditionally sung by University Choir at the inauguration ceremony, a new record number of students began their studies in Gdansk. We are happy because from year to year the number of students, both Polish and foreign, grows. They can study in six public...
Russia Might Restore Its Military Bases In Vietnam And Cuba
Russia is considering plans to restore military bases in Vietnam and Cuba that had served as pivots of Soviet global military power during the Cold War, Russian news agencies quoted Russian Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov as saying on Friday.“We are dealing with this issue,” the agencies quoted Pankov as saying in Russia’s...
The U.S. Army Is Training Hard For Major War Amid New Threats
FORT HOOD, Texas ― The United States Army, citing threats from North Korea, Iran, Russia and the Islamic State, has put its most powerful combat units on a war footing, ready to slug it out, if necessary, in high-intensity battle.Even as GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump claims the military is “in a really bad state” and “totally unprepared,”...
Russia Suspends Nuclear Agreement, Ends Uranium Research Pact With United States
Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washington.The Russian government said that as counter-measures to the U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia over Ukraine, it...
