Bungled Intervention in Kosovo Risks Unraveling: a New Deal Needed for Peace
Doug Bandow Washington’s policy in the Balkans never made much sense. The U.S. wanted to keep some nations together and dismantle others. American officials deplored ethnic cleansing in some cases and ignored other instances. The only principle which explained Washington’s actions was that the Serbs always lose. With Kosovo and Serbia...
Joint HRW and AI Statement on Detention-Related Abuses in the Context of the Armed Conflict in Ukraine
Impunity for detention-related abuses in the context of the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine continues by both Ukraine’s government and on Russia-backed separatists in Donbass. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reiterate their call on both parties to put an end to this deplorable situation, stop all arbitrary and secret...
Ukraine: Armed Conflict-Related Abuse in Detention
(Kyiv) – Both sides in the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine have detained and abused people with complete impunity, Human Rights Watch said today at a joint press conference with Amnesty International in Kyiv. In a statement released in Kyiv jointly with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch reiterated its call for the Ukraine government and...
The US election and the Ukraine Connection
The Ukraine conflict might explain Russian intervention in the US presidential race. Samuel Charap and Timothy J. Colton call for compromise and dialogue. …read more Source: International Institute for Strategic...
The Neocon Lament: Nobody Wants Them in Trump’s Washington
There is no limit to the hubris driven hypocrisy of America’s stalwart neoconservatives. A recent Washington Post front page article entitled “‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted” shares with the reader the heartbreak of those so-called GOP foreign policy experts who have apparently been ignored...
Pipeline Politics
KleptoCast 9: Natalie Duffy talks to Ilya Zaslavskiy about how Nord Stream 2 could strengthen the Kremlin’s hand in Europe. http://kleptocracyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/NORDSTREAM-FINAL.mp3 By Natalie Duffy On New Year’s Day, 2017, Gazprom pumped a record amount of gas through its Nord Stream pipeline. Gazprom CEO...
EU Propaganda Fighters Get Cash Infusion
Team says it has only scratched the surface of disinformation and fake news spread by Russian and European media. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
Aid Groups Decry Migrant Push-Backs
‘Illegal’ refusal to allow entry to would-be asylum seekers said to be rising in the Balkans and Poland. …read more Source: Transitions Online...
American-Born Doctor Takes on Ukraine’s Health Care System
Ulana Suprun is a woman on a mission. The 53-year-old radiologist from New York who was appointed Ukraine’s Acting Minister of Health in July is determined to shake up Ukraine’s sclerotic health care system …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights Protection...
Journalist faces mandatory 5-year sentence for saying Russia should leave Crimea
Any lingering doubt that Russia would genuinely convict a journalist for expressing the same position as the United National and all democratic countries has now been quashed. On Jan 20, Mykola Semena and his lawyer were presented with an indictment that is both eerily Soviet and openly surreal …read more Source: Kharkiv Human Rights...
