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What does freedom mean to you — freedom to think nonconforming thoughts,  to associate with nonconforming people, to advocate nonconforming viewpoints?  To me, freedom is essential to a good life, the oxygen that, if missing or taken away, renders our world “weary, flat, [and] stale,” as Shakespeare’s Hamlet says.  To really breathe at all, we must be free to wander off the reservation of received and approved opinion.

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The Trump Administration has delivered yet another concession to Israel’s embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the eve of parliamentary elections: the Israeli military occupation of much of the Palestinian West Bank and of the Golan Heights will no longer be referred to in official U.S. government documents as an occupation. America’s so-called Ambassador to Israel is a former Trump lawyer named David Friedman who is more involved in serving Israel than the United States.

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The author is the longest serving foreign correspondent covering Russia. He published his fascinating memoirs in December of 2018.

In order to appease the internet censors, today’s Caitlin Johnstone article has been replaced with a breaking report from the National News Conglomerate. NNC: Obey.

Originally appeared at Life in Russia

While most of the world pretty much ignores what is happening in Europe (with the exceptions of Brexit and the Gilettes Jaune protests in the United Kingdom and France respectively), there is no doubt that the union is under strain and that very little has been resolved since the PIIGS government debt crises of the post-Great Recession period.  In this posting, I want to look at how Europe has increasingly become a union of the unequals as the economic fate of the member states diverge from each other. Читать дальше...

Tom is a regular contributor not only here at Russia Insider but also at Seeking Alpha and Newsmax.

Today, the entire country is following what's going on in Crimea, which made its historic choice at the referendum in 2014 — To be with Russia forever. That decision has protected its residents from the events taking place in neighboring Ukraine. This decision made quiet, peaceful, and robust development possible. And the footage of today's Crimea — Whether it's the bridge or the modern airport, the new vineyards, and the highways — Is a source of pride, delight, and a realization of what else needs to be done. Читать дальше...