For our first installment of 'Geopolitiks' - a new series examining the real "news of the world" - we're joined by Michael Vail of the indispensable StratRisks.com to help us look at the five-
You see Sochi all the way over on the Caucasian (i.e., bad) side of the Black Sea. In the breakup of the former Soviet Union, Russia lost the choice parts of the Evil Empire's Black Sea frontage -- including Odessa and the Crimean peninsula (where Sebastopol and Yalta are) -- to Ukraine, so since then it has had to make do.by KenMy first idea was to run the above post head and then leave this space blank -- ha-ha!
Ardaga Widor has been a journalist, ship cook, one-man industrial assembling firm, teacher … in more than just four corners of Mother Earth. He quotes the Portuguese poet and pantheist Teixeira de Pascoais who said: “A man is everything he has seen and every person he has met in his life.” Ardaga is a thus a genuine One World man. Today he’s mostly engaged in the hands-on striving for (social) justice and the empowerment of cultural diversity. He also works in the field of tourism.
The 2014 Olympic games are set to be held in Sochi, Russia-- notable for their snow capped mountains, love of winter sports, and rabidly homophobic laws about "gay propaganda" (whatever that means).While these games have all of the trappings of Berlin 1936, the one organization we'd expect to have a clear head about these bigoted laws is the International Olympic Commission (IOC).
by KenTo be honest, I never heard of Wentworth Miller before now. He is, I gather, the star of Prison Break, and lots of people have heard of him. And now he has picked what seems to me an excellent moment and method for coming out. This letter he wrote to the St. Petersburg (Russia) International Film Festival is posted on the GLAAD website.
Although Stephen Fry is best known in the U.S. for his role as Melchett in Blackadder and as Gordon Deitrich in V For Vendetta, in the U.K. he's a major celebrity-- an actor, screenwriter, director, author, playwright, journalist, comedian, television and radio personality and... an activist. He's also gay.
RT | July 18, 2013
The widening of the spiral of fear and increasing demand for ‘protection’ creates an international protection racket cartel indistinguishable, only in that they call themselves ‘legal’, from organized criminal gangs.
