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Putin’s Plot to Get Texas to Secede - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum?...
via AH on FacebookCasey Michel, politico.comimage fromFor Moscow's right-wingers, payback means teaming up with a band of Texas secessionists. Nathan Smith, who styles himself the “foreign minister”...
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Hypothesis: Fake American Civil War 2 Geopolitical Outcome - Note for a...
DrFaulken January 13, 2009, journal.drfaulken.comThe Wall Street Journal recently published an article discussing a theoretical collapse of the United States in 2010. Igor Panarin presented his theory...
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Patryk Babiracki: Showcasing Hard Power, Russia Reveals Her Longstanding Soft...
uncpressblog.comvia KI on FacebookPosted by Connie Chia on 22 June 2015, 10:05 am We welcome to the blog a guest post by Patryk Babiracki, author of Soviet Soft Power in Poland: Culture and the Making...
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Мифы о России: как Запад перестал понимать нас и чем это грозит
daily.rbc.ruИван КуриллаДоктор исторических наук, профессор Волгоградского государственного университетаГлавная ошибка западных политиков, видящих в России врага, — представление о том, что наша страна...
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This is a terrible idea for fixing Iraq, and Washington loves it
[JB question to the author: How would you describe the U.S. Declaration of Independence from Great Britain? More generally, colonies separating themselves from oppressive empires? More recently, the...
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South Postpones Rising Again For Yet Another Year - Note for a lecture, "E...
via LH on Facebooktheonion.comHUNTSVILLE, AL–For the 135th straight year since Gen. Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox, representatives for the South announced Monday that the region has postponed...
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What Borders Mean to Europe
[JB comment: Excellent piece on European borders and national sovereignty from a historical perspective]image of Europe Middle ages fromstratfor.comGeorge FriedmanEurope today is a continent of...
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Russia's Ministry Of Mind Reading
via NIK on Facebookrferl.orgThen-U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright with then-Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov in Moscow in January 2000By Brian WhitmoreJune 23, 2015It's the urban legend...
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Beyond Propaganda
How authoritarian regimes are learning to engineer human souls in the age of Facebook.PETER POMERANTSEV, foreignpolicy.comIn the photo, a young man uses the internet at a net cafe in Chongqing,...
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Почему Запад и Россия не понимают друг друга
via IK on FacebookПолитологи Иван Крастев и Стивен Холмс о страхе дистанционно контролируемых революций18.06.2015Иван Крастев, Стивен ХолмсМосква взяла на себя миссию борьбы с революциями в мире, в...
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Reading about the Confederacy - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
John Williams, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.comFaced with the horrific murders in South Carolina and the ensuing debateover the appropriateness of the Confederate flag, it’s even clearer than usualthat...
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Copy-editor or copy editor?
image fromFrom Phillip Lopate, "No wigs, no midgets,"The Times Literary Supplement (Jun 19, 2025) p. 26:Mary Norris's Between You [and] Me: Confessions of a comma queen provides an insider's view of...
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The fraudulence of U.S. Military "Training"
image fromI've long been suspicious of the word "training" as used by the U.S. military. I still am, especially given recent decisions to "train" yet more Iraqis.Here's what I penned (with...
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Nearly half of Texans fear a federal military invasion, poll finds: Note for...
rawstory.comvia RM on FacebookTexas voters think Gov. Greg Abbott was right to send the Texas State Guard to monitor U.S. military exercises here, and they consider federally ordered domestic military...
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US critic: 'undeniably racist' Gone with the Wind should be banned from...
via VA on FacebookCatherine Shoard, theguardian.comLou Lumenick suggests that the 1939 epic romanticises slavery and should be rejected along with the Confederate flag‘Slavery is an institution the...
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How the Pentagon Exaggerated Russia’s Cold War Wonder Weapons
via VS on Facebookmedium.com[JB note: The Soviets were doubtless delighted with Soviet Military Power because they finally discovered what kind of advanced weapons they had (or wished to have). The...
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Map of the Wealthiest Person in Each State. Who’s in Your State? Note for a...
bluenationreview.comWe talk a lot about income inequality here at BNR, about how the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. have more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined. Now, thanks to Vox...
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Moscow Life Through The Eyes of Foreigners
Via MB on Facebookthemoscowtimes.comBy Felix White-ThomsonJun. 25 2015 19:29Last edited 19:29Pascale BazireWinning photo by French photographer and expat Pascale Bazire captures a Moscow street in a...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald Conjugates “to Cocktail,” the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb (1928)
Via a Facebook friend[JB Note: The below may be helpful to the fewer and fewer Americans studying Russian, if they not wish to be discouraged by the tricky Russian verb -- including on how to...
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