UK plan to turn OPCW into politicized quasi-prosecutorial body will undermine intl security – Russia

Moscow strongly opposes the UK’s attempts to give chemical watchdog OPCW authority to pin the blame in chemical attack probes, as it may turn the body into a political tool and undermine the entire international security system. An ongoing special conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague was […]

‘You weren’t there, you don’t know how it felt’: Students from the Parkland high school shooting rebuke a Fox News contributor for politicized tweets amid tragedy

Joe Raedle/Getty Images Students from the Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people hit back at a popular conservative personality who tweeted politically-charged messages on Twitter. Some students drew upon their experience and called for some sort of change in gun legislation. Students from the Parkland, Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 […]

Trump: Leadership of FBI & Justice Dept politicized investigative process in favor of Democrats

Published time: 2 Feb, 2018 11:40 Edited time: 2 Feb, 2018 12:01 Donald Trump has lashed out at the leadership and investigators at the FBI and the Justice Department, saying that they politicized “the sacred investigative process” in favor of Democrats and against Republicans. The US president attacked both authorities on Twitter by saying that […]

Chemical probe in Syria can't be politicized, Lavrov tells Tillerson

Published time: 2 Nov, 2017 19:20 The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, held a phone conversation on Thursday, the ministry reported, saying that situation in Syria was among the major issues discussed. The two senior diplomats talked on joint efforts to annihilate hotbeds of terrorism in Syria, […]

TFW You're Politicized

The internet is a capricious beast; someone can go from deified to vilified in a matter of minutes. Kim Kardashian and rapper Cardi B, whose single “Bodak Yellow” just made the Billboard Top 10, are the latest examples of how internet-shaming can both inform and disempower, and how the same societal forces that give a […]

Will GDP and Unemployment Numbers Be Politicized Under Trump?

On the evening of September 1, 2011, I had the unpleasant task of delivering the confidential August jobs report to President Obama before it would be made public the next day. “I don’t like the look on your face,” I remember the president saying to me in the Oval Office. “The job number is zero,” […]