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Image by Mikhanbd When I first came to America 20 years ago and started to pick up on the colloquialisms of the American corporate language, the expression I found most endearing was “motherhood and apple pie”. In my mind it was the perfect simile for something that is so utterly…
Pop The Champagne…A New War On The Way In East Ukraine.
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, with an advisory board consisting of #NeverTrump, former Obama Administration officials, State Department, and CNN operatives, has published a dashboard which supposedly shows the influence of Russian-linked Twitter accounts on political debate in the United States. The dashboard includes a listing of URLs supposedly being…
How do you deal with a country where a corrupt elite attempts to shut down free speech, where the security services eliminate with extreme prejudice human obstacles to their own power, where powerful economic interests combine with the media and the state to create a narrative that no one is…
Image by Chatham House, London The Russian media outlet Republic.ru reported this week on a conversation with Alexander Lebedev, a Russian businessman and banking expert. The most striking comment made in the interview was Mr. Lebedev’s assertion that at least $100 billion had been illegally smuggled overseas from Russian banks…
Image by Rossoporpora For Albanians, the proximity with Italy is not only geographical, it is a timeless love. This is understandable, as its roots date back to old times. Scanderbeg’s close relations with his Italian allies, especially Venice, then thousands of Arberesh, Scanderbeg’s descendants, who settled forever in Italy during…
The West cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan alone. America and Europe can treat the symptoms, but they can stave off the absolute disaster for a period of time, at the cost of much blood and treasure. However, they cannot solve the underlying condition – a mix of radical Islam,…