Category: WEST

Russia, West Step Up Energy War as Risk of Nuclear Disaster Haunts Ukraine

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine—As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine’s frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other’s economies, with Moscow keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut on Saturday while threatened with price caps on oil exports. Russia’s state-controlled energy giant Gazprom blamed a technical fault in the Nord Stream 1…


The Earnest Cowboy Silversmith

Canadian silversmith and cowboy Scott Hardy wants the world to see the beauty and elegance of Western craftsmanship. He feels blessed to honor his culture in this way.  Hardy’s maternal grandparents raised him in Saskatchewan, after his parents divorced when he was 3 years old. He’s the fifth generation in his family of ranchers and homesteaders….


Man Charged After Sister Awakens From Coma Dies in Custody

CHARLESTON, W.Va.—A West Virginia man charged with trying to kill his sister, who recently awakened from a two-year coma and identified him as her attacker, has died less than a week after his arrest, authorities said Friday. Daniel J. Palmer III of Cottageville was pronounced dead Thursday at a Charleston hospital, a day after he…


Six Killed in Helicopter Crash in West Virginia: Report

A helicopter used for tourism flights crashed onto a highway in West Virginia state on Wednesday, killing six people on board, local media reported. The helicopter, which was based at an airport in the state’s Logan County, crashed on State Route 17 and was on fire when rescue crews arrived, the WSAZ-TV reported, citing Ray…


6 Killed in Helicopter Crash in West Virginia: Report

A helicopter used for tourism flights crashed onto a highway in West Virginia state on Wednesday, killing six people on board, local media reported. The helicopter, which was based at an airport in the state’s Logan County, crashed on State Route 17 and was on fire when rescue crews arrived, the WSAZ-TV reported, citing Ray…


Is the West Slipping Away From China?

Commentary As the old saying has it, “nothing lasts forever.” This truth is beginning to dawn in China. Rising costs, abusive policies, and, more recently, COVID-19 and war sanctions have prompted Japan and the West to rethink China’s exposure. Money is flowing elsewhere. Beijing would have to change much to bring back the former flood…


Book Recommender: ’The Double Life of Katharine Clark,” a Real Life Story of Escaping Communism That Reads Like a Heart-Pounding Spy Thriller

Katherine Clark was an investigative reporter active between the 1940s and 1960s. She was the first female Allied war correspondent entering Berlin in 1945. Her 1950s beat was Eastern Europe. There, she spoke truth to power, what investigative reporters are supposed to do. But she spoke the wrong kind of truth about the wrong kind…


Israel Arrests Palestinian Attackers Who Killed Guard

JERUSALEM—The Israeli military on Saturday said it has arrested a pair of Palestinian assailants who allegedly shot and killed a security guard at the entrance of a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, in what the Israeli military described as an attack by “terrorists.” The detention followed a manhunt that was launched shortly after the…


Six Crises Threatening America From Within and From Communist China—With Stu Cvrk

Six crises are serving to hollow out America. China is eyeing a weak America. From cultural Marxism to the infiltration by communist China, sandwiched in between are progressive ideologies that hollow out the foundational institutions of this republic. I explore what the crises are with Stu Cvrk, a retired captain of the Navy and China expert….


Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in West Bank Gun Battle

JERUSALEM—Israeli security forces killed three members of the Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad in a shootout in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. “This is a terrorist cell that has been involved in terrorist activity against security forces recently, and was apparently on its way to another attack,” the police said. Four Israeli officers were…