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How to Counter Putin and Reduce Climate Change or Reversing the Energy Weapon

February 20, 2022 By gmoke

The impending (2/20/22) invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin’s Russia is, at least in part, an energy war. Certainly, he is using the methane Russia sells to the EU and neighboring countries as a weapon. Russia supplies a third to a half … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: cuba, ecology, energy, energy conservation, energy efficiency, environment, gas, infrastructure, methane, oil, pipelines, putin, renewables, russia, sustainability, Ukraine, war

The Global Plutocracy Story

May 19, 2018 By gmoke

With the news of Saudi and UAE meetings with the Trmp campaign, Jeet Heer, staff writer at the New Republic, points out that the “so called Russia story is a global plutocracy story” and I believe he is correct.  In fact, the global … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: media, plutocracy, real-estate, russia, surveillance, trump

Collusion Is Not a Crime

July 1, 2017 By Mark L. Bail

“We do not get our opposition research from spies, we do not collaborate with Russian spies, unless we want to be accused of treason.” --Richard Painter Trump Russia Scandal is like a connect-the-dots picture that will later be colored … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Matt Tait, Peter Smith, russia, trump

Welcome to Watergate 2.0 (A Thread Starter)

May 9, 2017 By Mark L. Bail

No two ways about it. James Comey screwed up (in) the 2016 election. My informed belief: he spoke about reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton to short-circuit a leak from the FBI's New York Field Office. I'm holding onto this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: James Comey, russia, trump

Inchmeal: A Progress Report on the Russia Connection

May 3, 2017 By Mark L. Bail

inchmeal: by inches; little by little FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today. Open, public testimony is less informative than closed testimony, but they aren't completely … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editor, User Tagged With: russia, Russia Connection, trump

Why the Russian election-hacking scandal of 2016 is at least as bad as, if not worse, than Watergate

January 16, 2017 By dave-from-hvad

(Cross-posted from DailyKos) During the 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump charged that Hillary Clinton’s alleged email scandal was worse than Watergate. But, as we’ve seen many times, Trump tends to project his own guilt onto … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: hacking, russia, trump, watergate

International headlines – Russia takes down US Drone

March 14, 2014 By HeartlandDem

Russian group ‘intercepts’ US drone over Crimea AFP | Mar 15, 2014, 06.10 AM IST "The drone was flying at about 4,000 metres (12,000 feet) and was virtually invisible from the ground. It was possible to break the link with US operators … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: crimea, president-obama, putin, russia, Secretary John Kerry, Ukraine, us drone intercepted

Using Sister City Relationships to Respond to Russia’s “Gay Propaganda” Law

July 15, 2013 By Laurel

When a powerful foreign government chooses to persecute its own lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) citizens with punitive laws, human rights advocates abroad are always left with the question, "what can we do about it?". Last … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Anthony Economou, Joseph Petty, Pushkin, russia, worcester

DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama: Stop Ivan Nikolov’s Deportation

August 11, 2010 By kyledeb

I immigrated to the United States from Russia when I was just 11 years old.  My mother married a U.S. citizen who is the only father I know. I do not remember much about the journey to America, nor did I even know I was undocumented … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: carl-levin, debbie-stabenow, deportation, illegal, immigrant, immigration, ivan-nikolov, janet-napolitano, john-morton, michigan, migrant, migration, russia, undocumented

Ecological disaster in Russia and China as fires burn out of control

July 31, 2010 By AmberPaw

Russia, which had been a wheat exporter, won't be this year. "Farmers interviewed are worried about their own livestock starving and thenThis article shows a peat fire on the outskirts of a Moscow suburb and comments indicating … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: china, fire, grain, russia, sakhalin, whole-villages

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