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What you need to know: An impartial impeachment guide

What you need to know: An impartial impeachment guide

Tatiana Prophet
Impeachment

By Tatiana Prophet
Editor-in-Chief

Think back if you can to the utter firestorm that exploded during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, coming just a day after Adam Schiff dropped a huge bombshell in a letter to acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire. The letter accused Maguire of withholding a whistleblower complaint submitted August 12 to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, who had deemed it credible and then sent it on to Maguire on August 26.

The complaint, released by the whistleblower’s lawyers at Compass Rose Law Firm

The nation was still reeling from three mass shootings in a row and the violent death of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan federal prison cell, either at the hands of himself or someone else.

And the United Nations General Assembly annual meeting was about to begin.

Ukraine is good for the West; but is the West good for Ukraine?

Ukraine is good for the West; but is the West good for Ukraine?

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

A Bird’s Eye View: Ukraine
In-Depth Series by Back to Facts

Part I: Energy Crossroads, Gas Storage Titan

By Tatiana Prophet

Ukraine is a vital crossroads for natural gas, from Asia and Russia to Europe. Ukraine has always been a crossroads, with access to the Mediterranean via the Bosphorus Strait at Istanbul. It has one of the largest gas transit networks in the world. It also has tremendous storage capacity, as large as all of Europe and more available due to a relatively small domestic demand. The gas networks are used heavily in the winter.

Further, international storage fee contracts are traded in U.S. dollars, making Ukraine almost as important as a Middle Eastern country for its role in the energy sector. And gas storage futures are a big business on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Key to Trump-Ukraine call: Untangling the alliances

Key to Trump-Ukraine call: Untangling the alliances

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

By Tatiana Prophet
editor@back2facts.com
Updated 9/26/2019 6:27 pm
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that Hunter Biden joined the Burisma board in April 2016. It was actually April 2014. Back to Facts regrets the error.

The phone call with new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is meaningless – until you sort through what’s actually going on in Ukraine.

Ukraine has had its ample share of political violence, scandal and even poisoning (see the famous poisoning of Viktor Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution of 2004). With an ideal climate for farming, Ukraine was long the breadbasket of Europe. As such it has been periodically overshadowed and menaced by Imperial Russia and Soviet Russia. To read articles out of context, it appears the political retributions have no end in this country. No wonder they elected an outsider recently, TV personality Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Here is a brief summary of the situation with Joe Biden, best told by the former vice president himself. On January 23, 2018, Biden appeared at an event held by the Council on Foreign Relations.

It feels good to call Trump a moron, but in this case it's wishful thinking

It feels good to call Trump a moron, but in this case it's wishful thinking

Tatiana Prophet
The Trump Translator

By TATIANA PROPHET

On Monday, SiriusXM published a blog post in advance of the release of journalist Salena Zito's interview with President Donald Trump, in which he appeared to not know that President Andrew Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War began.

“I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War,” Trump said. “He was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw what was happening with regard to the Civil War, he said ‘There’s no reason for this.'”

It's incomprehensible that even someone who is not as intellectual as most of our past presidents would not know important details about a man he admires and seeks to emulate. And it's also incorrect.

Spy agencies spying on people? Unthinkable!

Spy agencies spying on people? Unthinkable!

Tatiana Prophet
Foreign Affairs

By Tatiana Prophet
FOX News columnist Judge Andrew Napolitano, in using an anonymous source to make allegations about government wiretapping, has become the main actor in an international incident. He has also garnered criticism from media counterparts, including Slate magazine and CNN Money.

"Enter James Bond," Napolitano wrote in a column on March 16, referring to the British agency Government Communications Headquarters.