Новости за 15.02.2017

By Scott Carlson The “Russian Game” is a chess opening first popularized in the mid-19th century by chess master Alexander Petrov, a symmetrical strategy that allows attacking opportunities for both sides. After gaining tempo, one...

As a Russia-related scandal engulfs the White House, with the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn, Donald Trump’s disgraceful immigration ban continues to attract condemnation in US courts. The ban, which bars entry to...

The Deep State does not ever want peace with Russia, or a respite in their interventionist wars overseas. They have thus far lobbed “softballs” at President Donald Trump, such as with their control over the...

By Jonathan Perraton Predictions that the 21st century will be the Asian century appear to have been borne out already. From the 1990s there has been a decisive shift in global economic activity—current projections pit...

By Sinisa Jakov Marusic If fresh elections were held immediately, Macedonia’s ruling and opposition parties would again end up with almost-tied results, leaving the political crisis unresolved, an opinion survey suggested. Amid the ongoing delay...

By Seyed Hossein Mousavian Donald Trump’s Middle East policies began with two major decisions, one to ban entire Muslim populations and another to impose sanctions on Iran. Both threaten to undo the Iran nuclear deal....

By Dr Subhash Kapila* Global balance of power 2017 is weighted heavily against perceived combined strategic weight of the China-Russia nexus as the history of 20th Century World Wars would indicate that Hitlerian impulses do...

By Bhaskar Roy* Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order banning entry of people from seven designated Muslim countries, and hints from the White House that more countries could be added to the list, Pakistan...

By William L. Anderson* About 40 years ago, economist Bruce Yandle went to Washington to work for the Council on Wage and Price Stability, ready to apply his knowledge of economics and educate his fellow...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Tuesday it is deeply concerned by new proposals that threaten journalists with jail time of up to 14 years for obtaining leaked official materials, and would make it easy to...

By Andrew Vought* Mired in an era of cheap oil, Kuwait is looking for answers. Along with its petrochemical-rich neighbors, Kuwait has been dealing with this harsh reality since 2014. Throughout previous decades, Kuwaitis consistently...

New research by scholars at the University of Pittsburgh shows that American patients have significantly better access to new cancer medicines than their peers in other developed countries: Of 45 anticancer drug indications approved in...

By Matthew Crandall* (FPRI) — The Baltic states appear to be underestimating President Donald Trump, just as others have before. Baltic elites should use caution when dealing with Trump’s America. The elite in America underestimated...

“Rather than advancing a political solution that almost everyone agrees is the only way to solve the conflict, it seems the Trump administration’s actions are just adding fuel to the fire.” — Adam Baron, European...

Our feud with Macy’s may be coming to an end. Members recall that last year we led a campaign against the mega-department store chain for its firing of a Catholic Hispanic senior store detective, Javier...

The American public deserves to know the answers to at least the first five of these questions, and will then make a judgment on the sixth: 1. Why didn’t Trump act sooner to fire Flynn?...

Ice loss from Canada’s Arctic glaciers has transformed them into a major contributor to sea level change, new research by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has found. From 2005 to 2015, surface melt off ice...

Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and then some? Buy a low-cost, open-source 3-D printer, plug it in and print household items. In a recent study published...

Naval shipbuilding in Southeast Asia, although ambitious in scope, is likely to remain limited to low-tech manufacturing (hulls and sub-assemblies), MRO (maintenance, repair, and overhaul), and a few showcase projects. By Richard A. Bitzinger* Nearly...

By Jean-Christophe Catalon The ‘No’ vote in the Swiss referendum on tax reform was a big defeat for the government. Pressure from trading partners and big businesses will force Bern to come up with a...

(RFE/RL) — The White House has said that President Donald Trump fully expects Russia to return control of Crimea to Ukraine. Spokesman Sean Spicer made the remarks at a contentious February 14 news conference that...

A Pakistani court imposed a nationwide ban on celebrating and promoting Valentine’s Day at official level and in public places, state-run APP news agency reported. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the Islamabad High Court also...

By Elise Harris The head of the Vatican office charged with interpreting Church law has said that divorced-and-remarried persons who want to change their situation but cannot, may be admitted to Communion without living in...

Albert Einstein considered the origin of the Earth’s magnetic field one of the five most important unsolved problems in physics. The weakening of the geomagnetic field, which extends from the planet’s core into outer space...

Researchers have unlocked the mystery of why people have seen so many different images in Rorschach inkblots. The image associations — a bat, woman with a ponytail, many different animals, people, a jack-o-lantern and more...