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A monument to the Soviet soldier-liberator (Alyosha monument) on Bunarjik Hill ('Liberators' Hill) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. © Sputnik / Alexey Vitvitsky 105 VT: When it serves them, does Russia reach into America supporting social discord or political crazies in order to weaken NATO?  Does America have a history so jaded that Russia should be forgiven for this? Moreover, who runs Russia?  Why is Netanyahu forgiven for his endless attacks on the Syria people and his open support, censored in US press, of ISIS and al Qaeda?  Russian hands look very dirty there as they do when double-dealing...

They’ll talk about change, about politics, about reform, about corruption, but they will never talk about war unless they mean something happening far away.  Because to admit the existence of the war waged against us is to admit that we are combatants, and if we see that we are not fighting back, then we would have to admit that we have surrendered.  That we have already been defeated.—The Arctic Circle Collective  Hassan al Sabbah, a brilliant Iranian polymath and tactician, founded the Nizari Ismai’li state, a state that flourished from 1090 to 1256 AD in Iran and Syria. This small...

by Paul Haeder / March 16th, 2021 The final report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concludes that the project has been ‘the most successful anti-poverty movement in history’. Two key claims underpin this narrative: that global poverty has been cut in half, and global hunger nearly in half, since 1990. This good-news narrative has been touted by the United Nations and has been widely repeated by the media. But closer inspection reveals that the UN’s claims about poverty and hunger are misleading, and even intentionally inaccurate. The MDGs have used targeted statistical manipu...

CONTRARY to the popular image in the West of a dull, grey and brutal USSR, in Moscow Monumental Katherine Zubovich reveals how the general plan for the city in the 1930s aimed to improve standards of living, deal with the housing crisis, provide new amenities to Muscovites and beautify a city of “narrow and curving streets with dozens of lanes and dead ends.” The architecture of Moscow — and my one criticism of the book is that it’s not well served by the small and grainy photos illustrating the text — goes beyond the typical tourist pictures of Red Square and onion domes. Changing ...

How the Cookie Crumbles She’s 80, comes from Ayr, Scotland, lives in a sea town along the Oregon Coast. She is caretaker for her 55-year-old nephew. Her heart-failed husband, liver shot through, dialysis weekly, is another of her charges. Imagine, she and her family ran a small chain of shops — clocks, another locksmith, another fish and chips. That was in Bonnie Scotland. Her sister married a bloke in the US Air Force, and she shipped out with him. Pregnant. Child Drew, early on, in Tucson at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, he was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. Life for her changed, and th...