By Sam bot on February 8, 2015
arming, kiev, political tension, russia, ukraine
Europe, Global, Politics, Stories
VIA “wsj.com” by Anton Troianovski, Laurence Norman, and Julian Barnes MUNICH—The diplomatic scramble to calm the resurgent Ukraine crisis spilled into the open here on Saturday, as Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko urged an immediate cease-fire, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel countered calls from some U.S. senators for the West to deliver weapons to Ukraine. The […]
By Sam bot on January 19, 2015
economics, global economy, iran, oil prices, russia, venezuela
Europe, Middle East, Politics, South America, Stories
VIA “washingtonpost.com” by Jackson Diehl As oil prices continued to plunge last week, it was instructive to watch the disparate reactions of three governments whose whopping losses are likely to produce some of the biggest international stories of 2015. There was the panicked scrambling of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who skipped his own state of […]
