Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
How The Trump Budget Undercuts Security Risks Posed By Pandemics
By Maureen Miller, Columbia University Medical Center President Trump proposed a US$54 billion military budget increase to solidify the security of our nation. However, the government also recognizes pandemic threats as an issue of national security – one that knows no borders. In the last four years, we have faced the Ebola epidemic – contained...
Whose Responsibility Is It To Deal With The North Korean Threat?
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping will meet at Mar-a-Lago April 6-7, with the Chinese trade surplus and the North Korean threat highest on the agenda. Which country should take the lead in dealing with Kim Jong-un’s regime is the more consequential by far.Beijing, to everyone’s dismay, has refused to act decisively against the...
Russia Wins When Sean Spicer Repeats Wiretapping Claims, Obama Diplomat Says
WASHINGTON ― Evelyn Farkas, who served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia until 2015, blasted White House press secretary Sean Spicer Friday after he peddled a misleading conspiracy theory about her role in gathering information on connections between President Donald Trump and Russia.Spicer spent much of...
Germany Balks At Tillerson Call For More European NATO Spending
Germany said on Friday that NATO’s agreed target spend of two percent of members’ yearly economic output was neither “reachable nor desirable” countering a call by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for all allies to comply and quickly.The United States provides nearly 70 percent of NATO’s budget and is demanding that NATO...
Why Doesn’t Germany Do More To Protect Itself And Europe?
In recent history no European nation has demonstrated greater military prowess then Germany. That competence had tragic consequences in World War II and colors Berlin’s approach to the world today. However, more than seven decades after that horrendous conflict’s end Germany should take on the defense responsibilities appropriate for...
U.N. Looks For Trump Foreign Policy Hints From Nikki Haley’s Tough-Talking Debut
UNITED NATIONS, March 30 (Reuters) – Nikki Haley has made a tough-talking debut as U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy to the United Nations but her counterparts on the powerful Security Council are waiting to see if that will translate into policies differing from those of the Obama administration on crises from South Sudan and...
What The Trump Administration Needs To Tell The Kremlin
With Alexandra Schmitt, Advocacy Coordinator at Human Rights Watch News of Russia has dominated the Washington press for weeks. Whether, when, and to what extent President Trump and his advisors had contacts with Russian officials prior to his electoral win has provided endless fodder for pundits and politicians alike, not least in light of...
Russia’s Arctic Militarization: A Reality Check
Russia is not looking to carve up the circumpolar North and the region is not in the midst of an arms race, write Adam Lajeunesse and P. Whitney Lackenbauer.In a speech to the FSB (the successor to the old KGB) in February, Russian president Vladimir Putin called for further reinforcement of the Arctic border. Capping a week of press reporting on...
Cheney: Russian Cyberattack On Election Could Be Viewed As ‘Act Of War’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in a speech that there’s “no question” Russia attempted to manipulate the U.S. presidential election and that many would consider that “an act of war.”George W. Bush’s former No. 2 explained Monday at The Economic Times’ Global Business Summit in New Delhi that he thinks the “major concern”...
Russia And Iran’s Growing Cooperation Hints At A New Middle East
Clément Therme, École des Hautes Études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, will meet for the eighth time in four years from March 27 to 29. According to the Tehran Times, both sides are “preparing more than ten documents for signing” on various economic and political issues....
