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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Russian soft power meets resistance in Central Asia
In architecture, education, popular culture, food and media Moscow’s influence is obvious. Not all are happy about it
In architecture, education, popular culture, food and media Moscow’s influence is obvious. Not all are happy about it
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Turkey is upping the ante with threats to retaliate against the US if it imposes sanctions on Ankara for its purchase of a Russian missile system. «Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close two strategic bases to the US military if Washington imposes sanctions over Ankara's purchase of a Russian missile system. "If necessary, we'll close Incirlik and also Kurecik," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told broadcaster A Haber on Sunday, referring to two military bases used by the United States. "If the threat of sanctions is implemented against us, we'll respond to them in the framework of reciprocity." Incirlik is an air base in southern Turkey that has played a major role in US military operations in the Middle East and Afghanistan, and more recently against the "Islamic State" (IS) group in Syria and Iraq. The US military also stores around 50 B-61 gravity nuclear bombs at the base.»
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from New York Times
Newspaper in New York
Newspaper in New York
An estimated 72 people died during construction of a rail tunnel through the Montana mountains. After more than 100 years, their final resting place has been found.
More than 110 years ago, as the West finally was being tamed, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad rushed to build a transcontinental rail line to the Pacific Coast. Standing in the way, though, was a formidable peak in the middle of Montana’s Bitterroot Mountains. The railroad’s solution in 1907 was to recruit thousands of laborers, many of them immigrants, who spent two arduous years boring through hard rock to create a landmark 1.7-mile tunnel connecting the states of Idaho and Montana deep inside the mountain. The massive undertaking gave birth to a boomtown, later named Taft, that a Chicago journalist once called the “wickedest city in America.” By the time the tunnel was completed, an estimated 72 people had died from construction accidents, deadly diseases, gunfights and other violence. They were buried in a makeshift cemetery outside town.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Brother-in-law lost to mental illness is more than a statistic
Mental illness to homeless to hepatitis A. Just another statistic but now his struggle is over. Today we pick up his ashes. And it shouldn’t have to be this way.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Brother-in-law lost to mental illness is more than a statistic
Mental illness to homeless to hepatitis A. Just another statistic but now his struggle is over. Today we pick up his ashes. And it shouldn’t have to be this way.
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