By George Bialek “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken As an American living in Moscow I have often been a witness to concrete examples of how the Western… Read More ›
Ukraine
UN outlaws praising Nazis (Baltic states disagree)
The United Nations General Assembly has passed a Russia-sponsored draft resolution against the glorification of Nazism and attempts to rewrite WWII history. The document states that any attempts to revise the history for war, the Nuremberg decisions and to whitewash… Read More ›
Chaos and carnage as Europe freezes – Death Toll from Freeze Reaches 175
THE big freeze gripping Europe has claimed the lives of 175 people – with forecasters warning: “It’s only going to get colder.” Temperatures have tumbled below -10C in most capital cities, with 38 people dying from frostbite in Ukraine and… Read More ›
Homeless hard hit as death toll from severe cold spell in eastern Europe hits 58
By Associated Press KIEV, Ukraine — Dozens of homeless people have died in an Eastern Europe cold snap, and some analysts blame a Soviet-era legacy of viewing the homeless as those who need to be punished instead of helped. Temperatures… Read More ›
The Absurdity of Nationalism
The Nationalist’s Dilemma The nationalist has always found himself in a difficult quandary. Virtually all nationalist mythology tells of some better time in the nation’s history. It speaks of a time when people were patriotic, respectful of their elders and fellow… Read More ›
Guide For Moral Perspective in a Capitalist Society
The New Red Scare Lately, one cannot help but notice that despite the “end of history” and the total discrediting, debunking, destruction, looting, pillaging and castration of Marxism, anti-communist propaganda is actually on the rise both in the United States… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part IV of VI: Hunger & Holocaust – Glenn Beck on Stalin Glenn Beck begins his segment on Joseph Stalin by calling the Ukrainian famine in the Soviet Union a genocide. He states: “Most know that the horrors of the… Read More ›