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Ukraine Revolution Erupts in Fresh Violence
Despite Russian reassurances that Moscow’s troop buildup along Ukraine’s eastern frontier is for a military exercise, its growing scale is making U.S. officials nervous about its ultimate aim. President Barack Obama on Friday urged ...
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The Ukrainian Revolution's Neo-Fascist Problem
Pentagon officials say they believe there could be close to 50,000 Russian troops bordering the former Soviet republic and inside Crimea, recently seized and annexed by Moscow. That estimate is double earlier assessments, and ...
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Ukraine 2014 Parliamentary Election Results
Washington got those assurances that the Russian troop buildup was only an exercise from Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu a week ago. But no one in the U.S. government knows if Putin agrees — ...
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Ukraine Revolution Places Elites Back In Power
There is no plan to involve the U.S. military in what is happening in Ukraine, even if Russia takes more territory. Ukraine borders Russia, and Ukraine does not belong to NATO, where an attack ...
A positive approach to the drop in oil prices Oil prices have dropped the lowest since 2003 with a price under 27 dollars per barrel. Politically, it doesn’t look too ...
A growing culture of drug trafficking and use needs strong action. Along its western front, Pakistan shares a 2250 km long border with the war-torn country of Afghanistan. The fact ...
Cyber weapons are a game changer. At least, that is the case if we take at face value Marty Edwards’ – head of the control systems security program for the ...
The world watched transfixed as West Africa battled the Ebola virus during the epidemic that peaked in 2014. Borders and airports closed, but a few cases managed to escape the ...
While the recent Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that North Korea has mastered the miniaturization process highlights recent advances in North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program, a number of key ...
Abdelmalek Alaoui is a contributor for Forbes and writes about North Africa, the US and International Relations. Three years have elapsed since a Tunisian fruit vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, triggered the ...
By Eugene Chausovsky Twenty years have passed since famed political scientist Samuel Huntington published his seminal work, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. To anyone interested in ...
New found freedoms and old restraints still control clash in modern China. My fascination with China began in 1989. I was 14 then and the image of the man who ...