LILIA SHEVTSOVA April 4, 2016 Editor’s Note: How do Russia and the West see one another? What are the experts’ views on the confrontation between Russia and the West? How do the pundits explain the Russo-Ukrainian war and Russia’s Syrian gambit? What are the roots of the mythology about Russia in the West, and why has the […]
March 21st, 2016 FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board. CLICK IMAGE for link to video. CLICK HERE for link to interview. DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice. Good luck with it. RYAN: Thank you… We’ve […]
JEFF HORWITZ Associated Press March 21, 2016 WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has asked the Obama administration to shield from public disclosure court records related to the once-secret criminal history of a former Donald Trump business partner. CLICK IMAGE for link to story. In an unusual order prompted by an unsealing request from The Associated Press, U.S. […]
March 21st, 2016 WASHINGTON (CNN) — Donald Trump on Monday finally named several members of his team of foreign policy advisers in a meeting with The Washington Post’s editorial board, also laying out a global posture starkly at odds with longstanding U.S. policy. The names he provided for his advisory team ended weeks of questions […]
By Zachary Mider March 30, 2016 at 5:00:03 AM PDT A globe-trotting American investment banker who’s built a career on deals with Russia and its state-run gas company, Carter Page says his business has suffered directly from the U.S. economic sanctions imposed after Russia’s escalating involvement in the Ukraine. When Donald Trump named him last week as one of his foreign-policy […]
By HADAS GOLD 02/26/16 02:31 PM EST Donald Trump said on Friday he plans to change libel laws in the United States so that he can have an easier time suing news organizations. During a rally in Fort Worth, Texas, Trump began his usual tirade against newspapers such as The New York Times and The […]
By Peter Lance The Huffington Post February 7th, 2016. In December of 2002, when the legendary Roone Arledge passed away, I wrote a Counterpunch piece for the L.A. Times praising the man who not only set the gold standard for Olympics coverage, but gave us Monday Night Football and Wide World of Sports. He was […]
By ANDREW E. KRAMER JAN. 22, 2016 MOSCOW — When a new government-backed investment fund opened five years ago, Moscow wanted to send a simple message: Russia was ready to take the politics out of business. CLICK IMAGE for direct link to story @ NYT.com Authorities signed up a high-powered board of international advisers to oversee its activities, a […]
By Peter Lance: On May 4th, 2016 after winning the GOP Indiana primary, home state of his future veep pic, Donald Trump became the presumptive nominee. Much of his campaign rhetoric centered on his purported business acumen that would help “Make America Great Again.” I’d been a working reporter in NYC during the 80’s when […]
By MATTHEW MOSK BRIAN ROSS Dec 10, 2015, 7:30 AM ET Though he touts his outstanding memory, when Donald Trump was asked under oath about his dealings with a twice-convicted Russian émigré who served prison time and had documented mafia connections, the real estate mogul was at a loss. Even though the man, Felix Sater, had played a role […]