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Katasonova/Conway -- Should they have been at the DC's Women's March?...
John Brown1 hr · ... Maria Katasonova, a right-wing political activist who has become one of Russia’s most vocal Trump supporters. During an election-night party, she unveiled her new “triptych” — an...
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What Trump Is Throwing Out the Window
New York Review of BooksWhat Trump Is Throwing Out the WindowJessica T. MathewsFEBRUARY 9, 2017 ISSUEThe Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Alliesby Michael T....
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‘Fuck’-ing Around
New York Review of Books‘Fuck’-ing AroundJoan AcocellaFEBRUARY 9, 2017 ISSUEWhat the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselvesby Benjamin K. BergenBasic Books, 271 pp.,...
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Why Donald Trump won — and how Hillary Clinton lost: 13 theories explain the...
Salon (Dec, 26, 2016)image fromTrump did what millions thought impossible: he was — sort of — elected president of the United States. Here's whyWe at AlterNet set out to catalog what we consider the...
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Donald Trump against the World
by John Feffer, lobelog.comimage fromDonald Trump is a worldly fellow. He travels the globe on his private jet. He’s married to a Slovene and divorced from a Czech. He doesn’t speak any other...
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Moscow-based commentator Mark Teeter on V. V. Putin (via Facebook)
Mark H. Teeter8 hrs · WORLD ORDER, SHMORLD ORDER. Political scientists are clearly the Big Thinkers of the day, and more power to 'em, I guess. This R. Kagan piece fits into the popular Potentially...
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How ‘Kompromat’ Became a Word for Using Scandal as a Weapon
Wall Street Journal; via NB on FacebookRoots of the word are traced to the Soviet secret policeVladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1970. PHOTO: LASKI DIFFUSION/HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGESByBEN...
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Trump is obsessed with what his staff wears. Don’t let their costumes...
By Robin Givhan January 25 at 6:00 AM, Washington Post The president embraces the pocket square. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)Team Trump believes in the power of image. The new president believes...
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From the Princeton Alumni Weekly(January 11, 2017)REIN IN ADMINISTRATORSI loved my years at Princeton and havecontributed to Annual Giving every yearfor 50 years. I will also leave a portionof my...
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Those ‘Resignation’: What Really Happened at the State Department
Peter Van Buren, wemeantwell.comJanuary 26, 2017Tags: M, Pat KennedyPosted in: Embassy/State, TrumpYesterday at the State Department five officials resigned or retired. Another one today.The media has...
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America’s New President Is Not a Rational Actor
Whether by accident or design, Donald Trump is isolating himself and erratically unraveling the world order.image (not from article) fromStephen M. Walt, foreignpolicy.comA lot of people have been...
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Why ‘1984’ Is a 2017 Must-Read
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI JAN. 26, 2017, New York Timesimage from articleThe dystopia described in George Orwell’s nearly 70-year-old novel “1984” suddenlyfeels all too familiar. A world in which Big...
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Donald Trump on Muslim countries
telegraph.co.ukDonald Trump on Muslim countriesDonald Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the US for any reason - but has significant business interests in Muslim-majority...
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California Just Put Secession On The 2018 Ballot - Note for a discussion, "E...
Lou Colagiovanni, Posted on January 27, 2017, occupydemocrats.comimage from articleMany members of the American electorate vowed to leave the United States if Donald Trump won the presidency. Rather...
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World of walls: How 65 countries have erected fences on their borders – four...
dailymail.co.ukSecurity fears and a widespread refusal to help refugees have fuelled a new spate of wall-building around the worldA third of the world's countries have completed or are building...
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Trump’s foreign policy revolution
image fromBy Charles Krauthammer Opinion writer January 26, Washington Post The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations (such as a secretary of education who...
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One Country, Two Tribes - Note for a discussion, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
By SABRINA TAVERNISE JAN. 28, 2017, New York TimesImage from article, with caption: At the Woman's March on WashingtonIt was a spring afternoon in Istanbul, and I was talking with a woman in beigepumps...
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Head/Brain/Scull/lobotomy
Letters to the Editor, The Times Literary Supplement (TLS, January 20, 2017), p. 6image fromSir, -- According to qi.com, Sir Henry Head was the head of the journal Brain from 1905 to 1923. He was...
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Chukchi Autonomous District -- What Alaska Might Be if Russia Hadn’t Sold It...
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage from Staunton, January 29 – The disastrous situation with regard to roads, the economy and human existence in the Chukchi Autonomous District,...
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A Dangerously Isolated President
By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker [original article contains links]; via AGG on FacebookIn the first week of the Trump Presidency, influence has run through a very select group of...
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