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Category Archives: Russia
Protection money: Don Corleone
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 29 April 2017 Potus is sitting in the Oval Office, complaining of his workload and wondering … Continue reading
Posted in China, Italy, Japan, Korea, Military, Politics, Russia, Switzerland, USA
Tagged Don Corleone, Donald Trump, Estonia, Hyundai, Il pizzo, Kookmin University, Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, Lotte, Melania Trump, Mike Pence, Monaco, Moon Jae-in, Park Hui-rak, San Marino, Thaad
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Anyone for Uruguay?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 May 2015 CONTRA SPEM “Tout le malheur des hommes vient de l’espérance.” Assertion by Albert … Continue reading
Posted in China, Europe, Iceland, Politics, Russia, UK, UN, Uruguay, USA
Tagged Confucius, cultivate one's garden, Epicurus of Samos, groundless optimism, Harold Stearns, Left Unity, Malcolm Cowley, Pasok, Podemos, President Coolidge, President Harding, Roger Carpenter of Cambridge University, Syriza, Taoism, the end justifies the means, UK Labour Party, Voltaire, wishful thinking
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Caput anni
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 January 2015 The good news is that Antigone1984 is to resume blogging as from today. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Military, Poland, Politics, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Syria, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Crimea, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Fulgencio Batista, Kuwait, mass surveillance, Nato, Qatar, spy agencies, typewriters
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Bella, horrida bella, matribus detestata
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 21 September 2014 Not infrequently one gets the distinct impression that what concerns our masters, the … Continue reading
Saltire flying high
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 September 2014 Today the 4.25 million registered voters of Scotland have the opportunity to vote … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, China, Economics, Europe, Politics, Russia, Scotland, Spain, UK, USA
Tagged Bill Clinton, Bob Geldof, European Union, Goldman Sachs, Mariano Rajoy, Mark Carney, saltire, Small is beautiful
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Jaw-jaw better than war-war
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 3 September 2014 JAW-JAW BETTER THAN WAR-WAR Three letters from readers in today’s London Guardian represent … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Media, Military, Politics, Russia, UK, Ukraine, USA
Tagged Chekhov, Cold War, Crimea, European Union, Nato, Pushkin, Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, Winston Churchill, Yeltsin
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Guns abroad, guns at home
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 31 May 2014 Two letters in the International New York Times yesterday 30 May 2014: 1. … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Asia, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Russia, USA
Tagged 9/11, Columbine school massacre, Jay Saxena, National Rifle Association, Osama bin Laden, San Diego, San Francisco, US gun laws
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Crystal balls-up
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 January 2014 “One great advantage of the present time, which is the outcome of many … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Russia, UK, UN, USA
Tagged 1914, crystal ball, Delphic Oracle, False prophet, First World War, Paddy Power, Peace in our time
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Crocodile tears
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 4 January 2014 я сижу на шее у человека , задавил его и требую , чтобы … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Literature, Politics, Russia, USA
Tagged "What Then Must We Do?", crocodile tears, Leo Tolstoy, morality, oppression, serfs, Tsarist Russia
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