Putin can still get away with a Fifth Avenue August 23, 2023 Link here: https://apnews.com/article/russia-wagner-prigozhin-jet-crash-a7859e4e57f2efa2547dfbe5bdbaa1b2 Continue Reading
Bird (brains ) of a Feather September 17, 2022 My latest column from the Duluth Reader. It begins: There is no better proof of Donald Trump’s cluelessness than his high regard for Vladimir… Continue Reading
The Day Gorbachev Made D.C. Stand Still https://nyti.ms/3eaHZPf September 3, 2022 I haven’t read a column by Maureen Daud for several years but this headline piqued my interest as I’ve been following Gorbachev’e Earth destroying… Continue Reading
Emperors of lies – my latest Reader column March 18, 2022 It begins: Vladimir Putin says the West is an “empire of lies.” If this is so, a lot of them sprang from Putin’s thought… Continue Reading
Stellar Republicans March 13, 2022 VIDEO ??: A day after the Senate Intelligence Committee confirmed Russia interfered in our elections, 8 Republicans flew to Russia for a photo-op. Now… Continue Reading
Two vital views of what is happening in the world that you will not find on Tokyo Rose’s Fox News Channel March 12, 2022 A relatively short interview from the most insightful Russian historian I’ve encountered so far. And this is how we will fail to curb Putin…. Continue Reading
Der des Der March 12, 2022 My French is improving but I have a long ways to go before I’ll be able to tackle my newly acquired version of Democracy… Continue Reading
A little cold water for you March 1, 2022 I have increased the pressure on Russia’s reptile Putin with 1000 Facebook “likes” for my sculpture Of course, the pressure is only about the… Continue Reading
In case my previous snow sculpture was too ambiguous February 28, 2022 I don’t usually take sides between mammals and reptiles but in this case I’m making an exception. Continue Reading
This American Life February 27, 2022 Go to the episode of Feb. 25th from Public Radio’s This American Life on the Internet. Is called the Other Mr. President and in… Continue Reading
Putin’s invasion is a case of an old man taking viagra February 26, 2022 Here are two heartening stories from today’s news and one kick-ass video of a Ukrainian patriot shaming Russian soldiers: If the history of strongmen… Continue Reading
Pimples on the Butt of Putin’s lapdog February 24, 2022 The set of matryoshka dolls my friend “Michael Glitterman” gave me when he worked for the State Department in the former Iron Curtainish state… Continue Reading
God Damn it….. An army of Tucker Carlsons…… February 24, 2022 Tonight’s early reports of locations being attacked by Russia in the Ukraine Just before I tried to hit the sack I read the first… Continue Reading
Does Congressman Stauber support extra judicial kidnapping? July 17, 2020 From The Hill commenting on George Will’s column today in the Washington Post: “Will, who honorably follows in the footsteps of the greatest conservative… Continue Reading
News from Duluth’s Russian sister city April 27, 2020 He Found One of Stalin’s Mass Graves. Now He’s in Jail. https://nyti.ms/2xb6bMi Continue Reading
Chernobyl November 2, 2019 A month before my Dad died in 1987 the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a nuclear explosion that killed between 4,000 and 90,000 people… Continue Reading
From Russia with Love # 2 October 22, 2019 For one brief moment the United States led the Soviet Union to the doorstep of Democracy then Putin and his version of vulture capitalists… Continue Reading
From Russia with Love # 1 October 22, 2019 Its not enough that Trump has helped partner Turkey, our NATO ally, with Putin’s Russia in our spectacular betrayal of American decency. Trump has… Continue Reading
