Новости за 10.05.2019

The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster, and one of our all-time favorite pessimists. We carry his articles regularly on RI. His writing on Russia-gate has been highly entertaining.

Here is a glimpse in the Jewish mind: Bill Maher.

The American foreign policy Blob’s latest worry is that Venezuela’s radical leftist government is reaching out to the Middle East for support against growing pressure from Washington.

The Western media keeps outdoing itself.

Recently, CBS's 60 Minutes reported on Norwegian pilots who are on standby to intercept any incursion by Russian aircraft into Norwegian airspace. Because Russia might invade Norway.

The program also noted that NATO also conducts regular war games in the Baltic, mere miles from the Russian border, all the while maintaining that "the Russians" are threatening US troops and their allies. 

Analyzing people's intents and actions does not appear to be the American media's forte. Читать дальше...

Suzanne Massie is a 50 year phenomenon in the field of US-Russia relations. A brilliant and passionate writer, she is author of some of the greatest classics about Russia. She became a close friend of Ron and Nancy Reagan in the course of advising them about Russian culture and psychology. Her life story, and how it became intertwined with Russia reads like a best-selling novel. See RI’s profile here.

Zero Hedge ran an article about omissions from the Mueller report and/or investigation. It’s instructive, but there is more.

Checkpoint Asia is an excellent news site by a former deputy editor of ours crucial to RI between 2014 and 2019. Best news and commentary ranging from Russia, to China, to Imperial adventures in the Middle East. Smart, incisive, and with an anti-Empire bent.

Impressive.

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On September 26/October 9, the Orthodox Church commemorates the 1989 glorification of New Hiero-confessor Tikhon (Bellavin), patriarch of Moscow and all Russia. St. Tikhon is of course best remembered as the first Patriarch of Russia, elected in 1918, since the 1721 abolition of the patriarchate by Peter I.

Yesterday, Trump took to Twitter and unexpectedly threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods this coming Friday. This caught most people by surprise given incessant commentary over the past several months about how good trade talks were going and how close both sides were to signing a monumental deal.