Beware of the New York Times (?)
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View ArticleDalian Wanda movie deal can create a different view of China
Editorial, South China Morning PostWhile there is no better medium than film to teach others about a nation’s history, culture and thinking, the demands of an international audience must also be taken...
View ArticleGorkii and the USA
via Ivan Kurilla on FacebookРоссийско-американские сюжеты added 10 new photos.48 mins · Один из самых известных антиамериканских текстов русской литературы - "Город жёлтого дьявола"Максима Горького....
View ArticleDavid Greenberg’s ‘Republic of Spin’
By MICHAEL BESCHLOSS JAN. 20, 2016, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: Warren Harding, front right row, and Albert Lasker, adman and adviser, centerWhen George Washington was president,...
View ArticleCollege Students Are Not Customers
via JR on FacebookThis idiotic political shorthand needs to die, once and for all.By Rebecca Schuman, SlateStudents, not customers.Photo by wavebreakmedia/ShutterstockIn what is apparently a vogue of...
View ArticleAn important article on the "accuracy" of polling in certain parts of the...
windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage fromPaul Goble Staunton, January 22 –Roughly a quarter of all Russians -- 26 percent -- are afraid to express their personal opinions to sociologists about...
View ArticleThe Blizzard in the Imperial Capital
via a Facebook friendimage from, under the title: Washington DC to shut down for blizzard as it takes the greatest hit***At 2:15 pm today (1/23, 2016), seldom have I seen persons in upper Northwest...
View ArticleFirst Lady Hillary Clinton at a cultural diplomacy conference ...
John Brown shared a link. FROM A FACEBOOK ENTRYJanuary 22 at 1:47pm · Hillary Clinton angers Iowa fans who waited hours for five-minute speechNot even a special performance by singer Demi Lovato...
View ArticleFear Once Again Dominating Russian Society, Gudkov Says
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage from Staunton, January 24 – For first time since the late 1980s, fear has come to dominate the lives of Russians, although many are unwilling...
View ArticleMetaphysical Doubts Concerning the Existence of Modern Ukraine, a 1918...
[JB - Food -- perhaps to some of questionable intellectual taste -- for thought/controversy?]Webster G. Tarpley, tarpley.netNews reports on the reaction in Kiev to the reunification of the Crimean...
View ArticleThe Wild World of Oppression Studies
Robby Soave, thedailybeast.com; via LH on Facebookimage from articleAmerican University wants its students to learn about oppression and is more than willing to stifle freedom of thought in the...
View ArticleA Catholic priest doing his job?
Found on Facebook by a collapsed Catholic (yours truly) still devoted to a universal Church. ... Maybe the "good father" in the below video (in all fairness to him) was following local customs ...John...
View ArticleOnly in America?
usatoday.comHadley Malcolm and Kaja Whitehouse, USA TODAY8:42 p.m. EST January 26, 2016(Photo: Greg Allen, Greg Allen/Invision/AP) 5284CONNECTTWEET 8LINKEDIN 90COMMENTEMAILMOREOprah Winfrey loves bread...
View ArticleRussia Faces Something Worse than Disintegration, Oreshkin Says
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage from Staunton, January 27 – Russia faces something even worse than disintegration, a long period in which the regions ignore Moscow because...
View ArticleHollande-Rouhani lunch scrapped after Elysée Palace 'refused to remove wine...
telegraph.co.ukThe lunch with François Hollande was reportedly dropped as the French refused to bow to demand for halal meat to be served and for the wine to be left off the table François Hollande and...
View ArticlePUSHKIN HOUSE: ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
pushkinhouse.org; via GA on FacebookClem Cecil | Photograph: Country Life; from entryClementine Cecil has been appointed the new executive director of Pushkin House.She succeeds Ursula Woolley, who...
View ArticleFrançois Hollande en Inde : il a emmené Elsa Zylberstein dans ses valises
via GD on Facebookmetronews.frRETOUR AUX SOURCES - Un an après avoir emmené Mélanie Laurent et Marion Cotillard aux Philippines en vue de la COP 21, François Hollande s'est rendu en Inde avec d'autres...
View ArticleДиректор Института Маккейна предложил закрыть доступ к российским СМИ на Западе
Via GC on Facebookruposters.ruЗакрыть канал RT и агентство Sputnik для западной аудитории в качестве противостояния «российской PR-машине» предложил директор Института Маккейна и бывший глава...
View ArticleAK-47s Will Be Manufactured in Florida Beach Town
foreignpolicy.com; via a FB friendAK-47s Will Be Manufactured in Florida Beach TownBY ELIAS GROLLJANUARY 28, 2016 - 1:55 PMELIAS.GROLL@ELIASGROLLThanks to U.S. sanctions on Russia, a small Florida city...
View ArticleHow to understand Putin's Russia in less than a minute?
via AH/MT on Facebookmeduza.ioTitle of entry: This drunk driver could remember only one thing, but in Russia it’s the most important thing 10:58, 28 JANUARY 2016 EFIRThe Kazan-based television station...
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