Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

In News: Win for Democracy; Role of Media; Kari Lake's Election Denialists; Abortion; Herschel Walker; Russian Genocide in Ukraine

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Tim Miller, " Democracy was on the ballot. And attempts to end it were met with universal scorn ," insists, pace  pundits who want...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

As GOP Channels Putin: Commentary on Republican Long Game in Cozying Up to Russia's Strongman Autocrat

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Heather Cox Richardson, " Letters from an American , 7 December 2019 " : In June 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Trifecta of Bad News for Man in White House Yesterday: "President's Longtime Personal Lawyer, Longtime Executive at his Business, Pled Guilty to a Cover-Up, a Criminal Cover-Up"

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Donald Trump's day so far: - Michael Cohen sells him out on Trump Tower Moscow - Trump has meltdown on White House lawn - Trump pa...
Monday, July 23, 2018

More Reports on Shared Goal of Putin and U.S. White Evangelicals: Deconstructing Democracy

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The story  reported by Peter Montgomery , which I  shared with you  on Friday — that the neo-Confederate League of the South,  cla...
Friday, July 20, 2018

God, Guns, and White Supremacy: More Valuable Commentary about U.S. White Evangelicals' Infatuation with Strongman Putin and What's Driving It

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I keep trying to think of a historical explanation for the nonchalance of GOP leaders and voters about treason at the highest levels of g...
Thursday, July 19, 2018

More National Prayer Breakfast Commentary: "The [Republican] Party Needs to Face That Element Within Them, Which Is Essentially a White-Supremacist Element That Putin Is Playing"

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More good commentary about the connection of the National Prayer Breakfast to the treasonous behavior of the political party now contro...

Valuable Commentary on National Prayer Breakfast and Treasonous Behavior of GOP Leaders: "#Nationalprayerbreakfast Is All Over the Affidavit for Russian Spy Maria Butina"

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If you want to understand the Russian connection to U.S. right-wing white evangelicals — who are absolutely on board with treason to achie...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The Long and Short of It: Evangelical Mulligans and Idiot Winds — Religion in the News

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“Family Research Council head says that evangelical conservatives are willing to overlook Trump’s past behavior so long as he delivers fo...
Thursday, November 2, 2017

Russian Propaganda, Critical-Thinking Skills, and How the Christian Right Broke America: Valuable Recent Contributions to the Discussion

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Without the education necessary to think critically, challenge what you’re told by ppl you respect, & vet info, you can fall for anyth...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Good, Bad, Ugly: Week in News — "We Judge This to Be Hypocrisy Unprecedented in the History of American Politics"

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Journalists know: When leaders go berserk, furiously denying there's anything going on, blaming others--that's when you're get...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Brittmarie Janson Perez, "On the Informal Powers Trump Brings to the Presidency"

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I'm honored today to have an outstanding, timely, minatory (as in, warning us of a threat we'd be foolish to ignore) essay to...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016

The Weaponization of Christmas and What Trump's White Christian Supporters Want: Selections from Recent Commentary

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PRRI, " 'Merry Christmas' vs. 'Happy Holidays' " A pre-Christmas smorgasbord of items I've read in th...
Friday, February 21, 2014

End-of-Week News Roundup: Russia as Republican Paradise

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Sunday, February 9, 2014

Brief Takes from Week's News Commentary: Russia, Russia, Russia (and Nigeria)

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Russia :  Homophobia is all but dead, they say. Think again. What’s going on in Russia is absolutely terrifying.  
Friday, February 7, 2014

Catholic Families and Human Rights Institute Simultaneously Defends Putin's Anti-Gay Regime and Attacks U.N. Committee Report on Vatican: Making the Connections

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In my posting earlier today about Jeff Sharlet on the lives of gay Russians, I linked to Peter Montgomery's latest Religion Dis...

Jeff Sharlet on Life Inside Russia's Iron Closet: A Must-Read Report

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As Peter Montgomery says in his recap of global LGBT stories this week at Religion Dispatches, Jeff Sharlet's GQ  report on being...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

As the Games Begin: Three Videos to Remind Us of What's Really Happening in Russia

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As the Sochi Olympics begin, three videos to remind us of what's happening in Russia outside the bright lights of the carefully m...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Provocative One-Liners from This Week's News: Pete, SOTU, Women and Their Place, The Gays, Etc.

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One-liners (loosely speaking, in two cases) about what's in the news now: Pete Seeger, reactions to the U.S. State of the Union ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

News: Bro Porn, G. Gänswein & Pain, Gays & Russia, Children & Eating, Cruelty & Irresponsibility, Greed & Prosperity, Mandela's Legacy

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Some one-liners that have leapt out at me in articles I've read recently:
Sunday, October 6, 2013

Final Two Installments in Miranda Blue's Series on Globalizing Homophobia and Role of U.S. Religious Right

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Miranda Blue has now published the final two installments in her Right Wing Watch series about the role of the religious right in glo...