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What America’s immigrants looked like when they arrived on Ellis Island: Note...
Via MT on Facebook; [JB comment -- fascinating photos, so much "truer to life" than today's "colorful" electronic images (in my modest opinion); I do wonder, however, how the people pictured below...
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Commentator Mark Teeter on USA TV show "Homeland" in Russia
John Brown shared Moscow TV Tonite's post. [from Mark Teeter on Facebook]26 mins · Moscow TV Tonite added 4 new photos.Like Page1 hr · Edited · TONITE’S CROSS-CROSS-CUTURAL BET: The Spies of...
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Aging Supreme Court energizes Republicans more than Democrats in 2016 race -...
Richard Wolf, USA TODAY5:49 p.m. EDT October 25, 2015(Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP) 486CONNECT 138TWEET 11LINKEDIN 48COMMENTEMAILMOREWASHINGTON — Wedged between the Republican and Democratic national...
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Understanding the Kremlin: it’s the words, stupid
via AH on FacebookAngus Roxburgh, theguardian.comImage from It is notoriously difficult to understand Vladimir Putin. When he says: “We have no troops in Crimea”, it turns out that he actually means:...
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Ukraine - Reality Bites
Via SW on FacebookMax Seddon, buzzfeed.comUkraine’s Western allies backed Arseniy Yatsenyuk when he became prime minister and vowed to “wage a war” on graft. But as the country’s fight against...
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Russians ‘Snitch’ for Very Different Reasons than Westerners Do, Policy...
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.comImage from, with caption: Soviet Tradition of Snitching Makes Comeback in Russia Staunton, October 26 – Officials in St. Petersburg and other Russian...
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Сегодняшний наш герой - первый переводчик А.С.Пушкина на английский язык и...
via IK on FacebookImage fromРоссийско-американские сюжеты added 3 new photos.1 hr · Сегодняшний наш герой - первый переводчик А.С.Пушкина на английский язык и публикатор русской поэзии в США.Одна из...
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Don't mess with Texas -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
[from a JB reaction to a Facebook entry via JH]John Brown2 mins · Edited · Don't mess with Texas ... (annexed by the USA only in 1845) https://en.wikipedia.org/…/History_of_Texas_(1845%E2%80%936…
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Unanswered prayer: How much does Prof Reich make?
Reich image fromPls. Pass to Prof Reich -- from John Brown, former Senior Foreign Service Officer, member of the Public Diplomacy CouncilJohn Brown <john.h30@gmail.com>5:41 AM (20 hours ago)to...
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Free to Rock -- Listen to ex-KGB general Kalugin
Film Premier [sic] of Free To Rock - Georgetown University at Gaston HallTuesday, November 17th at 7:30PMA star and dignitary studded feature length documentary chronicling the fascinating story of...
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Что скрывает фасад «экономического чуда России»?
Via SK on Facebookura.ruВ Калуге производится 10% всех выпускаемых в России автомобилей. Точнее, производилосьФото: Андрей Матвеев © URA.RuМаленькой Калужской области завидовали все российские регионы:...
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Linguistic elucidation from Moscow-based teacher/commentator Mark Teeter...
Mark H. Teeter added 4 new photos. THE COUNTRY I COME FROM / IS CALLED THE MIDWEST--Russian students of English who are watching "Fargo" via the Internet may be forgiven for missing some of the nuances...
View ArticleRussia, Lacking Transportation Net, ‘Only Nominally a Single Country,’ Orekh...
Paul Goble, windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com Staunton, October 27 – “A country which is not linked together by a transportation network is in fact not a single country,” Anton Orekh says; and...
View ArticleThe Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor: Note for a lecture,...
OCT. 20, 2015Eduardo Porter, nytimes.comECONOMIC SCENEDoes welfare corrupt the poor?Few ideas are so deeply ingrained in the American popular imagination asthe belief that government aid for poor...
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Why College Football Fans Are So Much Crazier Than NFL Fans - Note for a...
Dianne Roberts, maxim.com; via GG on FacebookA New Book, Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America, goes long on why we just can't get enough of gridiron greatness.Pro football has its...
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Tomgram: William Astore, Taking Selfies in Iraq and Afghanistan
tomdispatch.comAfghanistan! Whether the story is the fall of a major city to the Taliban, the destruction of a hospital with staff and patients still in it, or the president’s announcement that U.S....
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The Slow Death of the University
chronicle.com; via NvH on FacebookChronicle Review photo illustration by Ron Coddington, original image by De Agostini, Getty ImagesBy Terry Eagleton APRIL 06, 2015Afew years ago, I was being shown...
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Chomsky: How America's Great University System Is Being Destroyed
alternet.orgFaculty are increasingly hired on the Walmart model as temps.By Noam Chomsky / CounterPunch February 28, 2014 132 COMMENTSPhoto Credit: Wikimedia Commons/jeanbaptisteparisThe following is...
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Kopeks and Big Macs – Russia’s Move to a Market Economy
adst.org; via CS on FacebookOctober 22, 2015 Judith Baroody A Moment in U.S. Diplomatic HistoryFollowing the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the winter of 1991, the newly-formed Russian Federation...
View ArticleWhat Will it Take to Change the Elites in Ukraine
via SW on Facebookvoxukraine.orgОКТЯБРЬ 27, 2015By: Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, Frontman of Okean Elzy rock band, composer, civic activistThe author doesn`t work for, consult to, own shares in or receive...
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