Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
POLITICIANS DETERMINED TO KILL THE US-RUSSIAN SPACE JOINT VENTURE
Why replacing the Russian RD-180 engines is so difficult, and so senseless By Dimitri Elkin and Woodrow Clark The list of collateral damage from the geopolitical standoff between US-Russia continues to grow. The latest victim is the successful rocket engine joint venture that lifts most of the American commercial and military satellites into...
The EU-Turkey Plan Won’t Stop Migration, But It Could Make It More Dangerous
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. This week, we speak with The Guardian’s migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley about the EU-Turkey plan on the refugee crisis.As borders across Europe slammed shut to migrants and refugees this week, European Union leaders reached a...
The EU-Turkey Plan Won’t Stop Migration, But It Could Make It More Dangerous
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. This week, we speak with The Guardian’s migration correspondent Patrick Kingsley about the EU-Turkey plan on the refugee crisis.As borders across Europe slammed shut to migrants and refugees this week, European Union leaders reached a...
Why Kazakhstan’s Alliance with Russia is Stronger than it Looks
On February 3, 2016, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev made a symbolically powerful decree on how Kazakh soldiers should march during military parades. The abolition of the Soviet goose step formation, utilized by Russia, was a striking display of the Kazakh military’s increasingly independent identity. As Georgia in 2007...
How Georgia’s Public Foiled Gazprom and Russia
Image: Tbilisi, Georgia. Stock Photo. Pixabay.com Score one for public engagement in a former Soviet country. Grassroots protests over Georgian leaders’ plans to cozy up closer to the Russian energy giant Gazprom have led to the government dropping those plans. It’s good that the leadership has done this, because the Kremlin uses...
U.S. To Blame Iran For Hack Of Small New York Dam: Sources
The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small dam in New York state, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against the hackers, two of the sources said, and a public announcement could come as soon as next week.U.S....
Taking Aim at Russia’s ‘Underbelly’
Two hundred years after the “Great Game” for domination of Central Asia began with the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813, Washington is maneuvering to increase its military presence on Russia’s underbelly, this time through a “counterterrorism partnership” with Tajikistan and its neighbors. Last month, the Pentagon...
Taking Aim at Russia’s ‘Underbelly’
Two hundred years after the “Great Game” for domination of Central Asia began with the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813, Washington is maneuvering to increase its military presence on Russia’s underbelly, this time through a “counterterrorism partnership” with Tajikistan and its neighbors. Last month, the Pentagon...
Obama Welcomes Justin Trudeau To The White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama offered a red-carpet welcome for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House on Thursday, ending a frosty period in U.S.-Canada relations and celebrating shared goals on climate and trade.”We haven’t always conveyed how much we treasure our alliance and ties with our...
Dude’s Amazing ‘Mother Earth’ Noises Are So WTF
Mother Earth apparently has her own soundtrack man.In a video posted this month, Gennady Tkachenko-Papizh wows “Georgia’s Got Talent” and the Internet with his sounds of the wild.”Let us try to feel what the Mother Earth wants to tell us,” Gennady Tkachenko-Papizh says in the translated YouTube captioning. He then...
