Tag Archives: Putin

Plans to lift Russian sanctions continued to be refined even after the Trump administration was warned of Flynn’s illegal communications with the Kremlin

By Mark | February 20, 2017

I’ve been in Kentucky these past few days, cooking and cleaning for my mother, who just had hip replacement surgery, so I’m a bit behind on the news. For the most part, it doesn’t look as though I missed much. Trump apparently alluded to a terrorist attack in Sweden that had never actually happened, and […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Arctic, CIA, Devin Nunes, Exxon, FBI, Felix H. Sater, hip replacement, House Intelligence Committee, Kremlin, Kremlingate, Logan Act, Michael D. Cohen, Michael Flynn, national security, National Security Council, NATO, oil, Pat Maynard, Paul Manafort, Republican National Convention, Republican platform, RNC, Russia, sanctions, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, witch hunt | 12 Comments

Was Hillary Clinton poisoned? World renowned forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu seems to think so.

By Mark | September 13, 2016

Maybe it’s because we know with some degree of certainty that former KGB agent turned dictator Vladimir Putin has poisoned his adversaries in the past, or maybe t’s just because this election cycle has already been so incredibly insane that nothing would surprise me, but when Dr. Bennet Omalu, one of the world’s most renowned […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Alexander Litvinenko, Bennet Omalu, birther, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, concussions, conspiracy theories, CTE, Hillary Clinton, KGB, pneumonia, poisoning, Presidential politics, Russia, Russian mob, Vladimir Putin | 20 Comments

To what extent is Donald Trump a surrogate of Vladimir Putin?

By Mark | July 24, 2016

Just before the Republican National Convention, the Republican party released their new platform for 2016. The New York Times called it “the most extreme Republican platform in memory.” Among other things, according to the Times, this new platform outlined positions “making no exceptions for rape or women’s health in cases of abortion; requiring the Bible […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, Aras Agalarov, Bernie Sanders, conspiracy theories, DNC, Donald Trump, family values, foreign policy, gun control, hacking, Hillary Clinton, Kazakhstan, Miss Universe, NATO, oligarchy, Paul Manafort, Presidential politics, religion in schools, Republican National Convention, Republican platform, RNC, Russian, Russian mob, Trump Soho, Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Vladimir Putin, Wikileaks | 65 Comments

No tax cuts for the rich

By Mark | November 18, 2010

I’ve been writing a lot about lately about the growing gap between rich and poor in American, and the systematic destruction of the middle class, and how I believe both trends to be destructive to our Democracy. I didn’t want to write about it tonight, though. I was actually planning to take the night off, […]

Posted in Economics, Politics | Also tagged Argentina, Bush tax cuts, Economic Policy Institute, Eisenhower, estate tax, George Soros, Guyana, inheritance tax, middle class, Nicaragua, Nicholas Kristof, nuclear arms treaty, nuclear weapons, Plutocracy, rich get richer, Ronald Reagan, Russia, tax the rich, taxing the rich, the growing gap between rich and poor, the plight of the overtaxed rich, Venezuela, wealth inequality | 7 Comments

Prostitution politics in Russia

By Mark | April 28, 2010

It’s hard to know what will appeal to me from night to night. Sometimes I feel like writing about local politics, and sometimes I see a relatively small item that sends me spinning off on a tangent. Tonight, it’s an article about a Russian woman named Ekaterina Gerasimova that has me clicking around the web. […]