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President Donald Trump Would Be A Global Threat On Par With Jihadi Terrorism, Warns Economic Research Firm
The prospect of Donald Trump becoming the president of the United States, and the ripple effect that would have on the world, is beginning to freak a lot of people out. A geopolitical research firm attempted to quantify that panic by ranking a possible Trump presidency on its list of risks to global economic security, on par with the rising...
To The West Bank: Europe’s Jewish Exodus (Part 3)
In the wake of recent terror attacks in Europe several of which targeted Jewish institutions some politicians and religious leaders have predicted an exodus of Jewish people from the continent. In some ways, the numbers stack up. Last year, a record 8,000 Jews arrived in Israel from France with another 15,000 coming from Eastern Europe.But some...
Why Record Numbers Of Ukrainian Jews Are Fleeing To Israel
On a recent afternoon, a large white van pulled up to a red brick building on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. A woman with a plump face and dark eyes stepped out. She smiled hesitantly, looking out at one of several newly built transit centres for displaced Ukrainian Jews.The driver of the van took care of her bags,...
Ukrainian Jews Are Fleeing The Country — For Israel
On a recent afternoon, a large white van pulled up to a red brick building on the outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine. A woman with a plump face and dark eyes stepped out. She smiled hesitantly, looking out at one of several newly built transit centres for displaced Ukrainian Jews.The driver of the van took care of her bags,...
Fleeing Eastern Ukraine: Europe’s Jewish Exodus (Part 2)
In the wake of recent terror attacks in Europe several of which targeted Jewish institutions some politicians and religious leaders have predicted an exodus of Jewish people from the continent. In some ways, the numbers stack up. Last year, a record 8,000 Jews arrived in Israel from France with another 15,000 coming from Eastern Europe.But some...
Russia Has ‘Withdrawn’ From Syria, But Actually, It Hasn’t
Russia’s fighter jets have come home from Syria to a heroes’ welcome. At an airbase near the eastern city of Voronezh on Tuesday, returning pilots were carried aloft in a ceremony replete with the pomp and circumstance befitting a victorious army.President Vladimir Putin’s Monday night announcement that Moscow was pulling troops...
30 Years After The Chernobyl Disaster, Locals Are Still Eating Radioactive Food
Nearly thirty years after an explosion and reactor meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, residents of the contaminated areas surrounding the disaster site are still being exposed to dangerously high levels of radiation, especially in the food that they eat.Researchers investigating contamination of locally produced food and forest...
How Ukraine’s War Became Big Business For The Underworld
The deal was complete in a matter of minutes and the fuel barrels stood empty. The smugglers, however, would soon be embarking on their next run.A week’s work in rebel-held Luhansk had depleted the taxi’s diesel tanks; every fuel station stood empty. Following a flurry of phone calls, the driver reserved the last spot on the client...
Russian Resurgence Brings Back Another Cold War Icon: The US Navy In Iceland
Lots of chatter is going around suggesting that the United States is preparing to base maritime patrol aircraft in Keflavk, Iceland — the “self-proclaimed birthplace of Icelandic rock ‘n’ roll” — to once again hunt Russian submarines.The news apparently came as a surprise to Iceland’s prime minister, Sigmundur David...
Russian Prime Minister Says ‘We Have Slid Back To A New Cold War’
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Saturday that relations between Russia and the West have deteriorated to the point that they may have fallen into a new cold war and that sanctions imposed after the annexation of Crimea has served only to aggravate tensions.”NATO’s policy with regard to Russia has remained unfriendly and...
