Black Radicalism and the USSR
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
Guests: Meredith Roman and Minkah Makalani on Black radicalism, the Comintern, and Soviet antiracism.
Guest: Andrew Jacobs on American tourism to the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Guests: Steven Zipperstein and Michael Pfeifer on anti-Jewish and anti-Black violence in Russia and the United States.
Guests: Bathsheba Demuth and Ilya Vinkoveysky on Russian and American colonialism and the environment in Alaska.
Guest: Douglas Smith on The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
What happened in South Ossetia? The war may be over but questions linger.ย Who started the war?ย Was there ethnic cleansing of Georgians?ย What role
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been on a whirlwind press junket scold Russia.ย Here is a clip of her rhetorical spanking at the
Anatol Lieven’s “Lunch with Putin” deserves much thought and serious discussion.ย Here are his impressions from last week’s Valdai Discussion Club: [T]here was another way
The New York Times has published the transcripts of Georgia’s “evidence” that Russia started the war.ย You can even get your own .pdf version to
Georgia’s latest attempt to convince the world that the Russians started the war is a sad sign of desperation. In a continued effort to dupe
Noam Chomsky has given his take on the whole South Ossetia-Russia-Georgia-US imbroglio.ย I haven’t read Chomsky in years.ย He rarely says anything he hadn’t already
Update: I posted the entire interview. Russia comes in about halfway in. Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin finally sat down for an interview.ย Lo and
Bernard-Henri Levy, France’s conservative philosophy guru, is a big fat liar.ย As soon as war broke out in Georgia, Levy rushed there hoping to reproduce
The Georgia opposition and Saakashvili supporters “are calling for investigations into what they call failures in diplomacy and warfare, and some are predicting Saakashvili will
As I noted the other day, Teimuraz Khugaev, head prosecutor for the Ossetian government, announced that 1692 Ossetians were killed in the Georgian assault last