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We are at war. Six of them
For a while now, I’ve realized we have been living under a number of wars, one piled on top of the other. So it’s not shocking that to many people everything seems awful, end-of-the-world kind of awful. Deadly and doomed. … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, COVID-19, Fascism, Human rights, Joe Biden and his people, Judiciary, Koch Bros Final Solution to Democracy, Komprosplat, Law, suits and order, Mueller investigation, political campaigns, Politics, Propaganda, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged 2016 election interference, COVID, MhZ, PTSD, Putin, racism, the Mueller Report, Trumpists, Ukraine
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Putin sits at a long, long table…
…Far away from potential assassins. Russia once had another leader who commanded violence and death but stayed well away from it himself — Lenin. This, from Victor Sebestyen’s biography: As usual, where the violence was, Lenin wasn’t…In his circle of … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Politics, Propaganda, Trumpism
Tagged Bolsheviks, Cossacks, January 6 assault, Kyiv, Lenin, Lenin cowardice, Nikolai Valentinov, Putin, St Petersburg, Tatiana Alexinsky, Trump, Ukraine, Victor Sebestyen
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God’s Hammer, guerrilla warfare, Ukraine and the breath of life
When I was a little girl, 5 years old, my lungs asserted themselves inauspiciously. Starting with several months of pneumonia, they proceeded, as I grew up, into various bronchial uproars, and then asthma attacks. It was during an extended asthma … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged bronchiectasis, Crimea, emphysema, glasnost, Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers, Odessa, perestroika, Putin, Soviet Union, the Maccabees, Ukraine
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