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Former U.S. intelligence officer Malcolm Nance said he has no doubt that Russia is behind the latest dump of emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. After all, Nance told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga Friday, Russia has been trying to influence the U.S. presidential election "ever since the beginning of this sordid campaign."
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The Nordic nations are deepening their cooperation and beefing up their military strength to counter a deteriorating security situation in the Baltic region, according to leaders meeting at a summit. The talks, held on the demilitarized Finnish island of Aaland, come as Sweden earlier this month announced it would once again place permanent troops on Gotland, an island that is seen as strategically important in case of a conflict with Russia.
The Russian government deceived itself with its fantasy belief that Russia and Washington had a common cause in fighting ISIS. The Russian government even went along with the pretense that the various ISIS groups operating under various pen names were "moderate rebels" who could be separated from the extremists, all the while agreeing to cease fighting on successive verges of victory so that Washington could resupply ISIS and prepare to introduce US and NATO forces into the conflict.
A surge of Turkish anger about the reactions of NATO allies in Europe and the United States to the failed coup in July has challenged alliance ties. In addition, Turkey believes that Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish imam who lives in the U.S., was the mastermind behind the coup.
Donald Trump's recent gains in some polls in the Middle West and Florida may prove to be a transient phenomenon if the Republican nominee's pro-Russian, anti-NATO stance is hammered home to the regions' large communities of Eastern and Northern European heritage. The ethnic vote in several battleground states could be decisive in a close election.
Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died; around ten million Syrians have been displaced; Europe has been convulsed with Islamic State terror and the political fallout of refugees; and the United States and its NATO allies have more than once come perilously close to direct confrontation with Russia. Unfortunately, President Barack Obama has greatly compounded the dangers by hiding the US role in Syria from the American people and from world opinion.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is unhappy with the United States. Despite Vice President Joe Biden's high-profile visit to Ankara Aug. 24, the embattled leader of the key NATO nation was not assuaged that the U.S. is a reliable ally.
While Donald Trump sends millions of Americans fleeing the GOP, Hillary Clinton scoops up more endorsements of the type Republican nominees usually enjoy. The Clinton camp announced endorsements from two retired four-star generals, Bob Sennewald and David Maddox .
While Americans are justly concerned about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Syria, they must be careful whose narrative they accept before deciding what we should do about it. Both sides have been responsible for civilian deaths and torture, but we are only being told one side of the story, and a distorted one at that.
Turkish soldiers seat in a tank driving to Syria from the Turkish Syrian border city of Karkamis in the southern region of Gaziantep, on August 27, 2016. Turkey shelled Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on August 26 on the second day of a major military operation inside the country, saying they were failing to observe a deal with the US to stop advancing in jihadist-held territory.
In this Feb. 22, 2015 file photo, Syrian Kurdish militia members of the YPG make a V-sign next to a drawing of Abdullah Ocalan, jailed Kurdish rebel leader, in Esme village in Aleppo province, Syria. A Turkish military expedition into Syria has threatened a Kurdish political project just as Kurdish forces seemed on the verge of connecting their northern Syrian zones.
FILE PHOTO: U.S. based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller/File photo U.S. Justice and State Department officials will fly to Ankara to discuss government accusations against Fethullah Gulen, the exiled cleric Turkey accuses of masterminding a failed military coup, according to a Justice Department official.
Donald Trump wants NATO members to pay their fair share into the transatlantic alliance, and that idea is nothing new. And it's still a bipartisan stance.
The Republican presidential nominee has attacked many issues dear to the Arizona senator, including the family of a fallen soldier, NATO and even McCain's own military service. Yet McCain, who faces a primary challenge and a strong Democratic opponent in the fall, has stuck by his support for Trump, at times seemingly through gritted teeth.
Why would it be that 8 years ago you couldn't win a Democratic presidential primary if you'd voted for a war on Iraq after pushing all the Bush White House lies about it, and yet now you can? Back then the war looked closer to ending, the death count was lower, and ISIS was only in the planning stages. Reports on the fraud, criminality, and knowingly self-destructive nature of the war launch - reports like the Chilcot report - hadn't yet been produced.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks during a town hall event in Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 1. Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our democracy. Hellbent on whipping up fear and resentment, Trump is running for president on a platform of visceral contempt - for immigrants, Muslims and facts - trafficking in insults rather than ideas.
President Barack Obama issued a barely veiled denouncement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's feud with the parents of a U.S. serviceman killed in Iraq, saying that such families should be honored by the nation. "No one has given more for our freedom and our security than our Gold Star families," Obama said in remarks at the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Atlanta, without mentioning Trump's name.