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I saw this on fb, which had a link to https://mobile.twitter.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1498491107902062592. It complements my How the U.S. provoked Russia in Ukraine: A Compendium. The fascinating thing about the #Ukraine war is the sheer number...
Roger Waters, the 78 year old creative genius behind the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, is launching the This is Not a Drill Tour. Checkout that web page for tour dates and venues. He’ll...
George Beebe was Dick Cheney’s former Russia adviser. He authored the 2019 book The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe.  He is Director of Grand Strategy at...
On July 30, 2022, when it was in the mid 90s in Bellevue, The Lodge at Bellevue Square was running the gas fireplace at 523 Bellevue Way NE. . They do it, I presume,...
David Talbot’s book The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government is a biography that reads like a spy novel. It is painful to read because of all...
The antifa and BLM protests over the last several years were overwhelmingly peaceful. Nonetheless, right-wing media were able to convince tens of millions of Americans that antifa and BLM are violent, radical movements. Right...
The transpartisan* Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft held a zoom meeting today with antiwar conservatives: The New Right: Ukraine Marks Major Foreign Policy Shift Among Conservatives. *The Quincy Institute is funded by both the...
Using data from Harvard and MIT Election Data and Science Lab, “County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2020”, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VOQCHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V10; County Presidential Returns U.S. Dept. of Commerce: Bureau of Economic Analysis U.S. Dept. of...
In an essay Are We Doomed? from The Atlantic in January of 2022, George Packer warned of the dangers to our democracy from Republican extremism, in particular with regards to elections. His prescription for...
On April 21, 2022 Rep. Adam Smith held his first in-person town hall meeting in two years. The location was an elementary school in SeaTac, WA, a working class and multi-ethnic suburb to the...
