Earth Day, April 22, 1970, Russia’s Biggest Hoax, Remembered
vassar / April 22, 2019
(Written years ago, this used to be an annual celebration of Leftist cupidity, but now it's getting serious, especially on the Religion front. I think they're willing...
Oligarchs, Toward a Working Definition Inside the Deep State
Steve Bannon recently referred to Michael Bloomberg as an "oligarch", which I believe is a fair extension of the term, since it has been used selectively in the media to a more narrow club membership, as if Russian...
Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History
This is only an opinion.
There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one.
But there is enough circumstantial evidence to...
In Celebration of the Neocons
In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, "Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East", a 5500 word opus, and a pro-Iraq...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...