Guess Who Isn’t Welcoming Brittney Griner Home? Random Thoughts This is probably an easy one for most of the readership. There are many clues to work with as to what element is hostile to the notion of former WNBA, NCAA and U.S. Olympian women’s basketball great Brittney Griner returning to the United […]
by Richard Cameron The News Media’s Lashing Of President Biden Part II – Foreign Policy Has the so-called ‘mainstream media’ been taking President Biden to the woodshed with an inordinate and excessive degree of intensity that has not only added to the difficult tasks he’s been rolling up his sleeves to manage – the […]
by Kseniya Kirillova Russian Radicals Prop Up Trump With Global Conspiracy Theories Back in the early months of 2020, Russian propagandists were spreading conspiracy theories inside their country blaming the COVID-19 virus on the British and the Americans, claiming the disease originated in laboratories in those countries as “biological weapons” to be […]
by Kseniya Kirillova Russian Spies and Khodorkovsky Arrest The October 2003 arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a billionaire Russian oligarch and head of the Yukos Oil company, may have been the result of a report sent to Moscow from Russian spies in the U.S. who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of […]
Editor’s Note: Our staff journalist on Russian affairs and Eastern Europe, Kseniya Kirillova, has penned an analysis of the domestic political atmosphere in the Russian Federation, an overall growing disapproval of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his party, and the formation of a nascent resistance movement. She discusses the protests that have manifested increasingly […]
Writer’s Lounge quote for Saturday, October 19, 2019, classic Orwell, for an Orwellian age: With today’s edition of Writer’s Lounge, we begin with a couple of items that we happened across that resonate against the backdrop of notable events that took place this week. First is the passing on Thursday of Congressman Elijah Cummings, […]
by Richard Cameron Among the ranks of second tier Democrat candidates in the 2020 Presidential nomination race, one of that group has attracted a substantial amount of attention from debate viewers. The individual in question is Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), especially after she very pointedly confronted fellow Democrat, California Senator Kamala Harris on […]
by Richard Cameron Donald Trump is intent on putting forth a partisan flunky as a replacement for a respected, accomplished, credible man – Dan Coats, who has resigned in frustration and will be leaving the post the middle of August. Trump is planning to submit to the Senate, the nomination of Congressman John Ratcliffe […]
by Paul Szydlowski Three weeks after he was elected, I posted some predictions of where a Trump presidency might lead us. Among the predictions were failure to complete a border wall, soaring federal deficits, potholes in the attempt to replace the Affordable Care Act and steady global devolution towards disorder if the U.S. were to […]
by Tony Wyman “Democracy in Retreat.” That was the headline for the annual assessment of global freedom completed recently by Freedom House, the independent watchdog group founded in 1941 and headquartered in Washington, D.C. that works to expand freedom and democracy in countries around the world. The year 2018 marked the 13th consecutive decline in world […]
