Section: News & Summaries
Between Hitler & Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story. VIDEO
Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II The Untold Story. A film by Slawko Nowytski. Narrated by Jack Palance. Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre. – No single European country suffered deeper wounds to its cities, its industry, its farmland, and its humanity...
Nuclear Credibility: What the United States Lost in Ukraine and Pakistan and the Implications for the Iran Deal
As the nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 powers continue on past the June 30 deadline, the focus remains on the details of an agreement and whether the negotiators can come to a final resolution. But even as these details continue to be debated, it is important to consider the bigger picture – whether or not an agreement with Iran is...
Analysis: Black swan dangers may lurk in emerging markets
Here we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, with concern that defaults and bank collapses could spill over to other European nations, with the impact going global. ||| BloombergHERE we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, with concern that...
Making a Martyr of Morsi?
The Execution of Mohammad Morsi will have wide ranging domestic and international ramifications and going ahead with it could make a martyr of a man President Al-Sisi would rather forget. The coup d état in July 2013 in which General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi overthrew Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, has seen a systematic reversion to authoritarian...
Exposing Russian Disinformation
Editor’s note: Ambassador John B. Emerson gave the opening remarks at “Exposing Russian Disinformation in the 21st Century,” a conference sponsored by the Atlantic Council, the European Council on Foreign Relations, and the Heinrich Böll Foundation on June 25, 2015 in Berlin. Emerson’s remarks have been shortened below....
Ukraine, China, ISIS Top Long List of Challenges for EU, NATO
The unity and strategic viability of the transatlantic alliance and the US major non-NATO democratic allies, including Japan, South Korea, Australia, Israel, the Philippines, and others, will be severely tested in the years to come. As always, freedom is not free, and its price is constant vigilance.The United States and its allies face...
Youth Platform is Transforming Eastern Ukraine
“We brought down some Lenins in people’s heads,” says organizer Yuriy Didula Days after Ukrainian forces retook the city of Kramatorsk on July 5, 2014, Yuriy Didula and two colleagues from western Ukraine piled into a car and drove building materials into the city.”People in the east felt abandoned by the state,”...
Gay Ukrainians flee rebel east
Homosexual Ukrainians are being forced to flee the rebel east due to being fired from their jobs and harassment. …read more Source:...
Obama sheds cool style
Barack Obama has reached the stage where if he wants to break out in song publicly then he’s going to do it. ||| Washington – Barack Obama has reached the stage of his presidency where if he wants to break out in song publicly, as he did with “Amazing Grace” in a eulogy on Friday, then he’s going to do it. With a year-and-a-half...
From Dirty Dancing to downward dog?
A billionaire has grand plans to transform the hotel that inspired the iconic Patrick Swayze movie. ||| New York – The historic hotel in upstate New York that inspired the 1987 film Dirty Dancing will come to be known for its downward dog.An Indian billionaire is transforming Kutsher’s Country Club, once an all-inclusive getaway for...