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Ksenia Sobchak may have won more than her 1.6% of the vote in the March 18 elections seems to say. Although Mrs. Sobchak lost, in part as her campaign surely took some kind of hit because of her emotional breakdown under the furious slander of Vladimir Zhirinovsky during last week’s presidential “debate” program, her margin is significant and may be something of concern in Russia’s future. This, even though this time around Mrs. Sobchak carried the highest unfavorability rating, at 82% in this election season.

Neocon Max Boot now says it’s better for the Syrian people if Assad stays in power. But we still can’t get the American Left to come to its senses about Syria.
Louis Proyect says in Counterpunch that the suffering coming out of East Ghouta is “on a massive scale reminiscent of Leningrad in 1941.”

Today’s livestream will cover an odd assortment of films, namely the recent anti-Russian propaganda piece, Red Sparrow starring Katniss as a honeytrap hoe. With nods to Russian versions of MK ULTRA, the story centers around the NKVD style creation of sex operatives at work in the “new Cold War” between the “free” west and “evil” Russia. “Noble” CIA operatives square off against perverse Putin-looking Russkies in this laughable portrayal.

And it is a pretty big rabbit-hole – based entirely on the location where this incident is said to have happened. Which we will get to in a moment; and then you can decide for yourselves how relevant you think it is or isn’t. But first, let’s just do the basics. In another month, I […]

After V. V. Putin’s historic speech on March 1st, 2018, and the revelations of Russia formidable new weapons, I wrote a letter to my friends and family, and all the good people in the USA. I wanted them to know that Russia isn’t threatening them, or anyone, that there is an opportunity as well as a warning for them, and that they are the only ones who can stop the 3rd World War before it starts.  I explained the responsibility they have, as well as the benefits if they rise to the occasion, and the price they will pay if they do not.

Oscar bombs, child martyrs and invincible weapons + this day in history w/Patsy Cline's crash and our song of the day w/Jack White on your Morning Monarchy for March 5, 2018.

One might have come to think that all of Europe has really striven to become a “superstate” under a mutual commonwealth type of government, or rather, thinly disguised socialism. But in the last two years we have seen signs of discomfort with this system, with Brexit and the advance of increasingly popular nationalist movements within several European countries. As these leaders have risen, so has a perhaps begrudging admiration for the two leaders of the most powerful nation states in the world – the Russian Federation and the United States of America.

This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down with NBC presenter Megyn Kelly where he blames the US for starting a new arms race beginning when George W. Bush pulled out of the landmark 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty on June 13, 2002.