Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
As Cold War II Looms, Washington Courts Nationalist, Rightwing, Catholic, Xenophobic Poland
From Syria to Ukraine, a pesky and newly reinvigorated Vladimir Putin is testing the west. In this new geopolitical face-off, Poland has assumed key strategic importance and will no doubt play a hugely significant diplomatic and even military role. Already, NATO has taken steps to shore up its eastern European flank by dispatching troops and...
Few Russians Believe Separatists Shot Down MH17
Every week, we bring you one overlooked aspect of the stories that made news in recent days. You noticed the media forgot all about another story’s basic facts? Tweet @TheWorldPost or let us know on our Facebook page. The Dutch Safety Board released the results of its year-long investigation into the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight...
New Film Exposes Russia’s Mass Murder of Ukrainians, Aggression that Continues Today
Russia hid details about the mass starvation on an unimaginable scale by Stalin in the 1930s and afterward until archives were opened following Ukraine’s independence in 1991. Ukraine is a nation interrupted, its identity and promise stolen by invaders and predators for centuries. Ukraine’s principle oppressor has been, and remains,...
Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are?
Nixon lied. Surely this is not a shocker. But what’s interesting about the latest revelation about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War is that the most duplicitous president in U.S. history actually knew that the U.S. air war in Southeast Asia was a dismal failure. Even as Nixon was telling the media that the saturation bombings of...
Where Are All the Women in World Politics?
A popular photoshop job from Elle UK removing the men from images of global politics as part of their #morewomen campaign is making headlines this week. The images depict German Chancellor Angela Merkel standing alone in a room after her male colleagues have been removed, while Hilary Clinton sits by herself in a boardroom that was once filled...
Russia’s European Game in Syria
PARIS. This much is clear in Syria: There is no good solution. There has not been a good solution since that black Wednesday in August 2013, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s war machine, by using chemical weapons, crossed the “red line” that US President Barack Obama had warned would trigger an American military response....
Jeb Bush: Russia Should Face Consequences Over Syria
By Steve HollandPETERBOROUGH, N.H., Oct 13 (Reuters) – Republican Jeb Bush vowed on Tuesday to take a more aggressive approach to countering Russia if he is elected president next year, calling Vladimir Putin an “agile adversary” who is exploiting a vacuum of U.S. leadership in Syria and elsewhere.In an interview with Reuters,...
Chest Thumping and Chess Playing in Syria
Political pundits in the U.S. are working overtime trying to get in to the mind of Vladimir Putin and explain to the world why Mr. Putin has decided to jump into the fray in Syria. Is it Great Power politics, an attempt to distract Russians from the country’s many economic problems, or a simple case of chest thumping? And what, if anything,...
Chilling Photos of MH17’s Reconstruction
On Tuesday, 452 days after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down and scattered across towns held by Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, the Dutch Safety Board released a long-awaited report on the causes, consequences and subsequent recovery process of the downed jet.Flight MH17 went down on July 17, 2014, on its way from...
White Tigers Aren’t An Endangered Species — Or A Species At All
Footage posted Monday of three white tiger cubs born in Crimea’s Skazka Zoo might be adorable, but the cuteness of the little tigers belies the sad truth about breeding them.Zoos and other exhibitors sometimes present white tigers with misleading language suggesting they are a separate species, usually in need of protection. Anecdotal...
