Transcript as follows: A broken clock is right twice a day. And even a president not given to truthfulness occasionally is candid. One such blue moon occurred yesterday when Barack Obama responded to questions about what his administration was going
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders are set to decide who will get the prestigious job as the 28-nation bloc’s foreign policy chief for the next five years. The heads of state and government are widely expected to nominate Italy’s
LAKE SELIGER Russia/KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine called on Friday for full membership in NATO, its strongest plea yet for Western military help, after accusing Russia of sending in armored columns that have driven back its forces on behalf of pro-Moscow
At a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in New York Friday, President Obama attributed people’s pervasive sense the world is falling apart to “social media.” “The world’s always been messy… we’re just noticing now in part because of social media,” Obama
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia widens its invasion of Ukraine Canada’s NATO delegation provides geography lesson to Russia Sister of Boston Marathon bomber arrested for bomb threat Russia widens its invasion of Ukraine Troops, tanks, and weapons from
NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine accused Russia on Thursday of entering its territory with tanks, artillery and troops, and Western powers said Moscow had “outright lied” about its role and dangerously escalated the conflict. Russia dismissed the allegations, describing the
President Obama just finished a brief statement at the White House focused on his response to ISIS in Iraq and Russians in Ukraine. With regard to ISIS, Obama first downplayed U.S. goals in Iraq, then expanded them and finally said
Six years to the day after he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, President Barack Obama announced that he did not have a strategy to combat ISIS, which recently beheaded American photojournalist James Foley. “I don’t want to put
As violence continues to escalate around the world, President Obama will meet with members of the National Security Council Thursday, the White House reports. The meeting, which will be closed to the press, was added to the President’s schedule Thursday morning.
NOVOAZOVSK, Ukraine (AP) — Two columns of Russian tanks and military vehicles fired Grad missiles at a border post in southeastern Ukraine, then rolled into the country Thursday as Ukraine’s overmatched border guards fled, a top Ukrainian official said. The
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The battle for Ukraine’s strategic coastline heated up Wednesday as a local mayor reported that pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in southeast Ukraine after three days of heavy shelling. Novoazovsk, a resort town of
The Swedish government is set to outlaw travel in order to engage in terrorist activities, and will include punishment for those who intend to do so, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has announced. Reinfeldt has however stopped short of withdrawing
(Reuters) – Unidentified, heavily-armed strangers with Russian accents have appeared in an eastern Ukrainian village, arousing residents’ suspicions despite Moscow’s denials that its troops have deliberately infiltrated the frontier. Two witnesses told Reuters on Tuesday that the dozens of men,
MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine is claiming that its forces have captured 10 Russian soldiers in an eastern region where the Ukrainian troops are fighting pro-Russia separatists. The Facebook page for the anti-rebel operation — which includes the military, the national
Ukraine said a battle erupted on Monday between border guards and a convoy of “dozens” of armoured vehicles and tanks that entered its territory from Russia near the Azov Sea.
August 24 should be a special day for all of Ukraine. The separatists in east Ukraine, especially in Donetsk, decided to celebrate Independence Day with a parade of Ukrainian POWs and stolen Ukraine military equipment through the city center on
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia’s mysterious 227-truck convoy returns from Ukraine Philippines to defy China by offering South China Sea sightseeing cruise tours Narendra Modi and rise of Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) in India Russia’s mysterious 227-truck convoy returns
On August 24, 1991, Ukraine’s parliament adopted The Act of Declaration of Independence, thus freeing the country from the USSR. Twenty-three years later, Ukraine is still fighting against Russia, but the war in the east and tensions with Russia did
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Chinese fighter jet buzzes U.S. surveillance plane in international waters In major escalation, Russia moves trucks, troops, artillery into Ukraine Chinese fighter jet buzzes U.S. surveillance plane in international waters The Obama administration is
German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrived Saturday in Kiev for crucial talks with Ukraine’s pro-Western leadership on how to end the bloodshed in the east of the country. Merkel is meeting President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and several mayors
Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces remain poised for a possible takeover of neighboring Ukraine. Nuclear-armed North Korea is ruled by an unstable, nihilistic dictator who constantly makes new threats against American allies and the United States itself (along with some of its filmmakers). The Islamic State
LUHANSK, Ukraine (AP) — Declaring it had lost patience with Ukraine’s stalling tactics, Russia sent over 130 aid trucks rolling into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without the approval of the government in Kiev. Ukraine called the move a “direct
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney slammed President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and declared the Russian reset “one of the most embarrassing incidents in American foreign policy.” “He underestimated Russia,” said Romney. “This whole reset policy with Hillary Clinton smiling
Russian citizens this week gave Moscow’s iconic Seven Sisters skyscrapers a slight makeover to show support for Ukraine, painting the Soviet star above the building yellow and blue with the Ukrainian flag above its top point. The apartment complex on
McDonalds’ flagship Russian location in Moscow, along with three others, have been closed down for ‘sanitary violations’ as the trade war between Russia and the Western world intensifies. According to Russian news outlets the McDonald’s closed in near Red Square
