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What is the truth about the war? About any war?
My heart bleeds; my head stays calm. That’s the best I can do with reports from this war when the news media is spilling over with information. I react with horror — impartial horror — and then I wonder what … Continue reading
Posted in Propaganda, The Facts of Life, War
Tagged "Blood and Ruins, David Remnick, Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Richard Overy, The New Yorker, war
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What “strongmen” can’t do
Tolerate dissent. Because of which they won’t hold open elections. (As my father pointed out years ago, if a political leader is as popular as he claims, he can prove it by having an open election — not one rigged … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Government, Human rights, Propaganda, Racism, Revolution, The Facts of Life, War, War on Ukraine
Tagged "Blood and Ruins, "Bloodlands", Alexei Navalny, Lenin, Nicholas Kristof, Putin, Richard Overy, Russia, Stalin, strongmen, Tim Snyder, Trotsky, USSR, World War II
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Do you love thrillers? If so…
…you must read this. A few days ago, the Times published a story of Maksim and Sergei, two Russians who escaped from involuntary conscription into Putin’s war by chugging in a small exposed boat across the Bering Sea to a … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, Immigration, The Facts of Life, War, War on Ukraine
Tagged Bering Sea, Putin's war, Russian military conscription, Russians escape Russia
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