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Seasons Greetings From the Masters of Illusion
Nolan Peterson, perennial Ukraine optimist and is-the-glass-half-empty-or-are-you-not-listening-to-me guy, feels like the country has turned a corner. Yes, by God, things are looking up. Ukraine might not be able to look forward to EU membership, but hey! It has visa-free travel, … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Politics, Religion, Russia, Trade, Ukraine
Tagged economy, government, Politics, role models, Russia, Trade, tragedy, Ukraine
1,923 Comments
The Best Health Care You Can Afford
“No, I mean I’m sorry that you’ve inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you’ve got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Education, Government
Tagged corporation, economy, Education, government, greed, Politics, role models
386 Comments
It Is What It Isn’t: Fake News Comes of Age as Ideology Trumps Evidence
Our deeds still travel with us from afar; and what we have been makes us what we are. George Eliot, Middlemarch We have arrived, in my opinion, upon the moment in the course of human history which marks the nadir … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Europe, Government, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism
Tagged Education, government, Military, Politics, role models, Russia, War
1,330 Comments
A Trial of Spiritual Resolve: Sergey Lavrov’s Speech to the Military Academy of the General Staff
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root… Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Rule of Law, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Western Europe
Tagged economy, Education, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade
1,782 Comments
As the Quicksand Closes Over WADA’s Head…a Lifeline is Thrown From the Unlikeliest Quarter
On so many evenings in Moscow, when the working day is done and it’s Miller Time, and Vladimir Putin goes home to his disgustingly decadent Italianate palace, he must run up to his bedroom, throw himself upon his giant four-poster … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Government, Politics, Russia, Vladimir Putin
Tagged government, Politics, role models, Russia
1,994 Comments
Get in There and Win One For Mom and Apple Pie: Non-Combatant Molly McKew Pounds the War Drum
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Georgia, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Religion, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism, Trade, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Saakashvili, Trade, Ukraine, War
2,348 Comments
What Does Freedom Mean to You? Putin at Valdai, 2016
American protest songs, lyrically at least, showcase that as an expression of national consciousness, Americans lost their understanding of what freedom means somewhere in the early 1970’s. Sentiment against dictatorships and enslavement of populations gave way to more America-centric problems, … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Trade, Vladimir Putin
Tagged economy, Education, government, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, tragedy
2,432 Comments
The Quality of Mercy
“Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere” -George W. Bush The western press, and the political systems it serves, are rousing themselves to a frenzy of effort to stop the Syrian government forces from re-taking … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Middle East, Military, Politics, Russia, Strategy, Terrorism
Tagged economy, government, Military, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia, Trade, War
2,542 Comments
Olympian or Politician? Make Up Your Mind.
The latest Olympian to shoot off his cakehole to the world and bray his catastrophic ignorance is Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury. He tweeted earlier, although he has since taken it down, his extreme disapproval that ‘doper’ Yelana Isinbayeva had been … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics, Russia
Tagged Education, government, opinion, Politics, role models, Russia, swimming
1,875 Comments
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.” – William Penn “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” – Ernesto Che … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Europe, Government, Law and Order, Russia
Tagged government, Politics, role models, Rule of Law, Russia
755 Comments
The Kremlin Stooge 