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Dogged reporting in Azerbaijan landed a U.S.-trained journalist in prison
Via MP on Facebookwashingtonpost.comBy Dana Priest, Anita Komuves and Courtney Mabeus September 12 at 9:45 PM Khadija Ismayilova, shown in March 2014, was an investigative journalist for Radio Free...
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Six ‘must-read’ books on Russia from last 25 years
Via AH on Facebookrussialist.org(Business New Europe – bne.eu – BOOK REVIEW: Chris Weafer in Moscow – September 10, 2015)Chris Weafer is a founding partner of Macro-Advisory, which helps investors cut...
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Gaps in Alumni Earnings Stand Out in Release of College Data
SEPT. 13, 2015Kevin Carey, nytimes.comimage fromColleges give prospective students very little information about how muchmoney they can expect to earn in the job market. In part that’s becausecolleges...
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Why Russians Hate America. Again
By SABRINA TAVERNISE SEPT. 12, 2015, nytimes.comDoes #Russia hate #America? “@RBTHAsia: What stands behind #anti-#Americanism in #Russia? http://rbth.asia/21433 ”RETWEETS211:42 PM - 11 Jan 2013image...
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The Google Art Heist
SEPT. 12, 2015Maureen Dowd, nytimes.comImage from article -- an interactive high-resolution digitized Marc Chagall paintingParis — JUST seeing the Crayola colors painted on the tall iron fence of...
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Moscow Propaganda Works By Confusing Fact and Fiction and Providing Emotional...
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage fromStaunton, September 13 – Peter Pomerantsev, the Kyiv-born author of “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible,” says that Moscow propaganda works...
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I have one of the best jobs in academia. Here's why I'm walking away.
[JB note: While in graduate school, I often thought about my dear colleagues, on all levels of the academic hierarchy: Thank God they're unarmed.]Via LOS on Facebookvox.com [original article contains...
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A modest proposal for the Vatican regarding Syrian/other refugees in Europe
St. Francis image fromI have just finished reading the splendid essay by Alexander Stille in the New Yorker, "Holy Orders: A determined Pope Francis moves to reform a recalcitrant Curia."The piece...
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Your Tuesday BriefingBy ADEEL HASSAN, New York Times (via email)King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain visit President Obama today in a meeting that the White House says reinforces “the strong and...
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Kazakhs Should Be Allowed to Declare Clan Identities in Passports, Legal...
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comimage from Staunton, September 15 – Most people believe that there are only two choices people in the post-Soviet states have as far as identity is...
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North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns - Note for a...
aschmann.net; via GG on FaacebookRecent AdditionsWhat’s NewSectionsHelp me complete this map!Record your own voice!Print the map!View the Layers!(12-Aug.-2014)Special Interest and Historical...
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Constitutionally, Slavery Is Indeed a National Institution: Note for a...
[JB Note: The word "God" does not appear in the Constitution either, but (according to one source), "To the framers of the Constitution, the idea of having a government not based on God would have been...
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Constitutionally, Slavery Is No National Institution: Note for a lecture,"E...
nytimes.com; for a view critical of the below article, see.Image from, with comment: As the Sesquicentennnial of the Civil War is remembered, History.com reminds us that on this day January 31, 1865,...
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The Pakistani press prince of Kiev
The owner of the Kyiv Post speaks: [see below]What about Crimea? I ask. Here Zahoor draws on his own personal history as a Pakistani. “I have told the government so many times that this is like...
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LEFT BANK: The decline of the French intellectual
By SUDHIR HAZAREESINGH 9/19/15, politico.eu [original article has links]; via US on FacebookVoltaire image from articleOne of the most characteristic inventions of modern French culture is the...
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The CIA on Russia/Ukraine (1948): Ukraine Russia's "Middle West"
image from[JB comment -- Speculation time: The below sounds very George Kennan-like; Kennan was a "hick" from the midwest, and longed to be accepted by the powerful "eastern USA elite"; again, I...
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"News" sea change ...
image fromNo one reads The New York Times if you have to pay for it.Of course, media experts/pundits have been saying this for years.I certainly refuse to pay for online access to the NYT -- I can get...
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US Embassy answers Russian trolls with its own parody
via AH on FacebookAn image circulated widely yesterday on the Russian Internet depicting US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft in attendance at yesterday's opposition demonstration in Moscow. The...
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The importance of Donald Trump
via LH on FacebookBy Frank Rich Follow @frankrichny, nymag.com; original article contains links.Far from destroying our democracy, he’s exposing all its phoniness and corruption in ways as serious as...
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Why Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign is a disaster in the making ...
From FacebookHillary ClintonSponsored · Hillary's birthday is around the corner, will you sign her card?Sign Hillary's Birthday CardAdd your name!HILLARYCLINTON.COM3 Likes1 CommentLike Comment Share
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