Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Poles Are Taking to the Streets in Massive Numbers to Protest the Country’s Shift to the Right
LVIV, Ukraine — In the past few months, alarm bells have been raised in Poland as critics of the country’s new ruling party, Law and Justice, or PiS, speak out against what they believe are dangerous infringements on democracy and a wave of conspiratorial panic in the country. The accusations of cronyism, authoritarianism and an...
“We” Aren’t Responsible for World’s Problems: Time to Recognize Limits of West’s Influence
What do you do after you brought your party’s control of government to a dramatic end? You become an international scold and blowhard, blaming the world’s problems on everyone else–who have no ability to solve any of them. In fact, has-beens and once-weres often are brought in as decorations for international gatherings, meant...
U.S. ‘Invades’ Canada After Russian-Backed Coup In Ottawa
The U.S. news media has portrayed events in Ukraine the past two years very strangely. What would it be like for the United States if the shoe were on the other foot? This fictional account will show how. Read the links to learn the real story. The United States has “invaded” Canada to support the breakaway Maritime provinces that are...
How Russia and China Are Cooperating to Dismantle America’s Dominance of the Internet
Did the Cold War even end? Moscow and Beijing, deeply resentful of American power, are again finding ideological common cause, jointly aiming at two pillars of the post-Cold War dispensation: a borderless Internet and international civil society. They are doing so on the declared basis of national sovereignty. Modern nationalism has proved much...
Consumer Confidence Tanking in Russia and Other CIS Countries, Surveys Indicate
Image: Russian Matroshka. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Russian consumer confidence is the worst in a decade in one recent survey, and near the low-water mark in another. In addition, the Russian public is becoming exhausted with having to count kopeks and go without, according to experts commenting on the situation. Consumer confidence that is...
America’s Pivot to Asia Actually Led to Drop in Security Assistance for Southeast Asia
In 2011, the Obama administration launched an approach to East Asia called the “rebalance to Asia.” One aspect of the rebalance was supposed to be strengthening security relationships in Southeast Asia, including through bilateral security assistance. Yet an analysis of U.S. security assistance to Southeast Asian nations shows that,...
‘Art Silos’ Rise In The Harbor Of Catania, Sicily
They’ve been here since the 1950s, these silos for wheat and corn on the harbor of Catania on the east coast of the island of Sicily at the foot of Mount Etna. Twenty-eight meters tall and facing the Ionian Sea, they are now some of the largest canvasses in Italy by a small group of international and local street artists.Interesni Kazki....
Major Security Breaches Found In Google And Yahoo Email Services
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters.The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru , Russia’s most popular email service, and...
The Limits of Power
It is difficult to get things changed in a democracy democracy. People have different opinions as to what needs to be done and how, and since they vote, they are listened to. For a change of some significance to happen, all centers of power that need to cooperate to make the change happen need to agree to it. How does it happen? The situation has...
Macedonia: Sliding Towards Autocracy?
It was in February of 2015 when Zoran Zaev, head of the Social-Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), the leader of the country’s largest opposition party, revealed that 20,000 citizens were illegally wire-tapped over a period of several years, starting as early as in 2011. Among those were government and opposition officials, academics,...
