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Navalny didn’t believe in death. Neither do I
I jumped out of my chair. An involuntary shock reaction to the headline in the New York Times. It doesn’t seem possible. The other night, a friend of Navalny’s, Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, talked to Lawrence O’Donnell. When O’Donnell suggested … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Journalism, The Facts of Life, War on Ukraine
Tagged Alexey Navalny, Lawrence O'Donnell, Masha Gessen, Mikhail Zygar, Russian history, The New Yorker, Tucker Carlson
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Before I forget…
The first time I couldn’t remember a name I was, perhaps, in my 30s. (It was a while ago; I don’t remember the year. Or my age.) I was at the Met for a performance of Tosca. It was an … Continue reading
Posted in Joe Biden and his people, Journalism, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life
Tagged 'The Irish Ballad', "Speak Memory", Joe Biden, JS Bach, Mahler, Mario Cavaradossi, Metropolitan Opera, Paul Krugman, Scarpia, Tito Gobbi, Tom Lehrer, Tosca, Vladimir Nabokov, Well Tempered Clavier
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Damn, why would Tucker Carlson want to be a modern-day Lord Haw-Haw?
There are some disadvantages: Lord Haw-Haw, whose name was William Joyce, broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK and US from Germany during World War II. The MAGA bunch keeps pushing Lords Haw-Haw in our faces. Today it’s Tucker Carlson (Drat. I … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Fascism, Journalism, Komprosplat, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Lord Haw Haw, Nazi propaganda, Tucker Carlson, war propaganda, William Joyce
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