Last Friday, I addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Below is the video of my statement, along with a transcript. If you are interested in my immediate feelings on speaking to the UN Security Council – a mix of gratitude, anger and despondency – you can listen to my interview from…
[ What follows is the entire text of Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi. ] Participants in the plenary session, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to welcome you all in Sochi at the anniversary meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The moderator has already mentioned that this is…
February 19th was the Rage Against the War Machine rally in DC. That just so happens to be my dad’s birthday as well. He was born on that date in 1917, endured the Great Depression, worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps and in factories until being drafted in 1942, and after…
Vladimir Putin addressed the Russian Federation on Tuesday February 21, 2023. We are well-advised to know what he said.
[ Note: Scott was going to speak at the Rage against the War Machine rally, scheduled for Feb 19th at the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D.C. For personal reasons, he will not be appearing. Being familiar with the principal figures organizing the event leads me to suspect petty politics prompted Scott’s…
William J. Astore is a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel, has taught at the Air Force Academy and Naval Postgraduate School, and now teaches history at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. He’s a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of critical veteran military and national…
Are you pro-choice? I know I am. And while I believe a woman has the right to make decisions about her own body, that’s not what I’m talking about here. Let me offer a recent and extremely important example. Back in December of 2021, when Russia notified the US and…
John Pilger is an Australian journalist, writer, scholar, and documentary filmmaker. He has been mainly based in Britain since 1962. He was also once visiting professor at Cornell University in New York. Pilger is a strong critic of American, Australian, and British foreign policy, which he considers to be driven…
I’m well aware of the deluge of lies, misinformation, disinformation, historical amnesia, ideological bias, and pure tribal hatred for Russia and Vladimir Putin, which saturates the media, with any mention of Russia, Ukraine, NATO, and the EU, by politicians, celebrities, commentators, every talking head who gets shoved in our faces…