Close to three quarters of a century ago—all of 13 years before William Golding’sLord of the Flies came out, just 4 years before George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and just months…
Russia
Something remarkable is taking place in Russia, and it’s quite different from what we might expect. Rather than feel humiliated and depressed Russia is undergoing…
Ukraine is facing two realities today. It can turn into a functioning country, the way it was before February 22, 2014, or it can continue…
Too much and for too long, we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National…
On Friday February 27, a prominent Russian political figure, Boris Nemtsov, was murdered. Some effort has been made to try to connect this tragedy with…
Food is more than just what we eat. It connects us to each other and our environment. And how we treat it is of tremendous…
The Eurasian Economic Union is a reality that may end up costing the US its “perch” in Eurasia’s western periphery as a Common Economic Space…
The Saker provides a one minute video with translation of Putin explaining two years ago the Russian government’s concern that an overseas entity would use…
I BOUGHT A COUPLE OF BOTTLES OF YARPIVO IN A CHINESE-OWNED DISCOUNT STORE AROUND THE CORNER HERE IN BROOKLYN, AND POURED ONE OUT FOR NEMTSOV,…
When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president…