foreign policy
Ukraine itself burns in wake of airliner shoot-down
July 23, 2014People with their own agendas push their versions of who is to blame, there is a shooting war between military forces and local militias, and half a million refugees have crossed into Russia.
Read moreU.S. trade policy linked to crisis at the border
July 9, 2014The mass migration of children from Central America has been at the center of a political firestorm over the past few weeks.
Read moreTargeted Ukrainian Communist cites right-wing terror, democratic collapse
June 9, 2014The leader of the Ukrainian Communist Party, Petro Symonenko, was the target of a murder attempt by far-right militiamen on 16th May in Kiev.
Read moreTPP trade talks draw foes on both sides of Pacific
April 24, 2014Twitter carried pictures of protesting Asian workers and news reports said the Obama-Abe bargaining in Japan would probably not result in approval of the trade pact.
Read moreWhy the U.S. does what it does in Ukraine
April 17, 2014If you want to understand why our government is so worked up about Ukraine, a good place to start is with U.S. actions in Yugoslavia some 25 years ago.
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