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Russian nationalists called angrily on Sunday for President Vladimir Putin to make immediate changes to ensure ultimate victory in the Ukraine war, a day after Moscow was forced to abandon its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine. The swift fall of Izium in Kharkiv province was Russia's worst military defeat since its troops were forced back from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv in March. (snip)Moscow's almost total silence on the defeat - or any explanation for what had taken place in northeastern Ukraine - provoked significant anger among some pro-war commentators and Russian nationalists on social media. Neither Putin, who is Russia's...

France rejects a U.S. proposal this week that would let companies opt out of a proposed international tax reform, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday, urging Washington to negotiate in good faith. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin raised serious questions about OECD international tax reform proposals in a letter made public on Wednesday, jarring international officials by floating the idea of a "safe harbor regime". Le Maire said that would mean U.S. companies could opt in or out as they pleased, which he said would be unacceptable to France and other OECD countries. He urged Washington therefore to...

After Nancy Pelosi opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump's call to Ukrainian President Zelensky, People's World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, U.S.A., published its version of the latest "explosive whistleblower revelation" accusing President Trump of a quid pro quo to get dirt on Joe Biden. The online publication of the newspaper formerly known as 'The Daily Worker' lists a litany of Trump's "high crimes and misdemeanors" which is nothing but a mire of lies and propaganda. That's standard fare for communist party sites and their Democratic Party comrades in D.C.  Earlier this year Congressman Al Green(D-Texas) showed that he and his fellow...