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Tag Archives: Ukraine
From ostrich jacket to jailhouse jumpsuit
This is what happens when you have all the money in the world but no heart or imagination: Paul Manafort — President Trump’s former campaign chairman who’s currently on trial in Virginia on charges of money laundering, tax evasion and … Continue reading
Posted in mainstream media, New York Times
Tagged consultant to dictators, Donald Trump, karaoke machine, ostrich jacket, Paul Manafort, Ukraine
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Obama to EU: Frack, baby, frack
From Common Dreams: Speaking after a meeting with European leaders at the [European Union]-US summit in Brussels on Wednesday, President Barack Obama suggested that the U.S. is open to exporting fracked shale gas, once promised as the source of American … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, globalization, humor, Iraq war, Obama, world-wide economy
Tagged Crimea, European Union, fracked shale gas, fracking reserves, swamp rabbit, Ukraine
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Tweedledum, Tweedledee spar on NPR
My friend Swamp Rabbit and I get a kick out of Republicans who complain of National Public Radio’s “liberal bias,” a strange charge given the fact that NPR rarely veers from the “he said/she said” style of reporting and commentary, … Continue reading
Posted in David Brooks, humor, mainstream media, Obama
Tagged Crimea, David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, NPR, referendum, Robert Siegel, Russia, Ukraine
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MSNBC: The Russians are coming!
Robert Parry in Consortium News: If you were living in Crimea, would you prefer to remain part of Ukraine with its coup-installed government – with neo-Nazis running four ministries including the Ministry of Defense – or would you want to … Continue reading
Posted in history, mainstream media, Obama
Tagged Crimea, Georgia, Kosova, Rachel Maddow, Richard Engel, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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