American aerial tankers are the backbone of western airpower. Without them, not only are large swathes of the USAF effectively grounded, so are many allied air forces flying in places like Afghanistan. Everyone knows about the “KC-X” tanker war underway
Recently Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2008 and prolific journalist/author, mourned “the cascading effects of the slow-motion downsizing of one of the planet’s most magnificent landforms,” the Himalayan glaciers. In
The FBI arrested fiery New York columnist, Vicky Pelaez in late June. An editor and writer for the Spanish language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa, she was charged with being an unregistered agent of the Russian government. Her far-left, anti-American columns
One of the things the Left is particularly adept at is changing the subject, deflecting any serious discussion of the subject at hand — in this case, the very real, post-9/11 national-security dangers of “immigration” across our southern borders —
MSNBC: Opposition lawmakers hurled eggs and smoke bombs inside Ukraine’s parliament Tuesday as the chamber approved an agreement allowing the Russian Navy to extend its stay in a Ukrainian port until 2042. Thousands of opposition demonstrators rallied outside the parliament
Well, Soderbergh and Del Toro’s Che was just released on DVD-Blu-ray. As a bonus, the Criterion release contains a behind-the-scenes “Making Che” section, featuring interviews with Soderbergh, Del Toro, the screenwriters, along with audio narration by the film’s chief consultant
Leave it to Oliver Stone to come up with the idea of a miniseries to put the likes of Stalin and Hitler “in context.” Oh, and for good measure, let’s toss in Joe McCarthy, whose mission was to expose Communists
Not so long ago, writers, editors, concerned world citizens and deep thinkers of all kinds were consumed with the idea of a coming global catastrophe that seemed implacable and virtually unavoidable. When it comes to covering today’s debates on global
Russia Today: Ahead of the Euro 2012 Football Championship which Ukraine will co-host, a group of feminist activists in Ukraine are protesting the rise of prostitution and sex tourism to draw attention to the problem in the country.
Today, in 1991, the leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine signed an agreement officially dissolving the Soviet Union.
Russia Today: In Ukraine, there has been at least 70 confirmed deaths of respiratory diseases this autumn alone. In total about 200.000 have been reported to be infected. The country’s health ministry says the swine fly count now stands at
My old Communist girlfriend was an exotically beautiful actress whose parents had emigrated from Russia and settled in New York City. Nola went to Party meetings and kept up with the correct way to think and behave by reading The
22 July 2009 Filed from Sangin, Afghanistan (This dispatch is from Ghor Province, though I am now with British forces down south.) Lithuanian soldier on Swedish C-130 from Kabul to Kandahar and finally to Chaghcharan. On his left are Filipino
13 July 2009 Ghor Province, Afghanistan The wake-up alarm sounded at 0345, and by 0430 the Lithuanian soldiers were ready to roll. The Lithuanians had always arrived early, prepared for action before every mission, but this time we relied on
1964’s Fiddler on the Roof (Book by Joseph Stein; Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick; Music by Jerry Bock) is a timeless classic of the traditional musical theatre format and reflects the tumultuous times of America in the 1960’s better than Hair
The leaders of gas-starved European nations pressed Ukraine and Russia to restore energy supplies immediately and the European Union threatened that they both could be sued for ripping apart the continent’s winter heating plans.
AFP: Russia and Ukraine prepared Sunday to restart gas supplies to the European Union after a deal was signed on deploying international monitors to help resolve one of Europe’s worst energy crises.
AP: An energy dispute between Russia and Ukraine is forcing tens of thousands people across Europe to cope with freezing weather and no gas heating.
AP: France and Germany appear certain to thwart a drive by U.S. President George W. Bush to place the strategically important Black Sea states of Ukraine and Georgia on track for NATO membership at the alliance summit.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=54657&videoChannel=1 Dynamo Kiev took on Donetsk Shakhtar in the final. But the real action was in the stands, as riot police clashed with fans.
