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Frankly Marina Ovsyannikova seems hell-bent on provoking Putin to make of her the jailed martyr he is making of Alexei Navalny. Marina Ovsyannikova, a former editor of the state-run Channel One network who denounced Moscow’s war on Ukraine during a live TV broadcast, faces criminal charges after Russia’s security services raided her home on Wednesday.… Read more.
Much is being made about explosions that sent Russians scurrying from their beach cabanas on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Tuesday. Ukraine claims they resulted from the derring-do of its Special Forces – who infiltrated behind enemy lines and blew up a Russian military airbase. But red-faced Russia insists the explosions resulted from nothing… Read more.
Common sense dictates that politicians play Robin Hood by lacing stump speeches with promises to take money from the rich to give to the poor. This, even though everyone knows the policies they implement invariably make the rich richer and the poor poorer. But wannabe prime minister Rishi Sunak seems utterly lacking in common sense.… Read more.
According to the hype, Prince Harry’s forthcoming memoir will contain shocking revelations that are bound to shake the very foundation of the British monarchy. Except that redoubtable British biographer Tom Bower just stole Harry’s thunder. In Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, Bower rehashes hackneyed gossip with contumely relish (e.g., that Meghan… Read more.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made quite a show today of announcing his resignation. But the “greased piglet” that he is, he made clear his intent to squeeze out a few more months in power. In fact, Johnson reportedly spent the hours before announcing his “resignation” reshuffling his cabinet. The man is insufferable! Mind you,… Read more.
Prince Charles is facing allegations that he lords over a “cash-for-honours” racket. I am not surprised. After all, I’ve been denouncing the British royal family as royal grifters for decades. Hell, I even denounced them in “Dissing British Monarchy to Mourn American Democracy,” November 6, 2020. Such is my abiding contempt. Prince Charles bagging cash… Read more.
I’ve been in the vanguard of those calling on the UK government to extradite Julian Assange. This, after the Ecuadorian embassy infamously kicked him to the curb in 2019 for continually violating the conditions of his asylum in its London embassy. That’s where British police, who had been lying in wait for nearly seven years,… Read more.
On Friday, Macky Sall, Head of the African Union, led a delegation on a mission to Russia. They went to beg President Vladimir Putin to lift the Russian blockade on Ukrainian grain exports to spare millions of Africans now on the brink of starvation. Unfortunately, Putin demonstrated once again that he has nothing but contempt… Read more.
It turns out that, after suddenly fleeing to South Africa last year, Princess Charlene demanded a king’s ransom from Prince Albert to return to royal life in Monaco. And Albert reportedly feared the longer he waited to pay it, the more tabloid reports, about her becoming his runaway princess, would resonate. So he obliged. Of… Read more.
The Western world watched as Russian President Vladimir Putin (aka the Butcher of Bucha) presided over his May Day parade today. But everyone waited with bated breath to hear what he would say about his “special military operation” in Ukraine. To say what he said was anticlimactic would be an understatement. Frankly, it was like… Read more.
