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If I got a dollar every time someone told me they saw a commentator on TV parroting something I wrote in one of my commentaries, I’d be very rich indeed. I’ve seen this phenomenon myself. As it happens, I felt moved to write about one such occasion just yesterday in “Writer Paul Auster Says Tea… Read more.
It has been self-evident for years that Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to “neutralize” anyone who poses a threat to his presidency for life. And no one posed a greater threat than opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This is why I asserted – in “Protests Unmasking the Insecurity and Cowardice Behind Putin’s Swagger and Bravado”… Read more.
Trust me, it’s no accident that you are not benefiting from gas prices nearing 20-year lows. Because, if 95 percent of us were not under stay-at-home orders, prices would not be so. In the wake of the March meeting, Saudi Arabia and Russia moved to boost production in order to retain market share amid falling… Read more.
Most commentators hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a disruptive genius for cyberattacking the 2016 US presidential election. This, because Putin made clear that he did so to get Donald Trump elected – presumably to do his bidding. But I warned that Putin was in for a rude awakening. Case in point is the following… Read more.
President Vladimir Putin has been ordering hits on his Russian detractors for years. I began commenting on them over a decade ago in “Putin Probably Ordered the Hit. But No One Will Do Anything About It,” November 28, 2006. This excerpt highlights not only my cynical take on his abiding MO but also my prescient… Read more.
The few A-list advisers Trump appointed to his cabinet represented the one redeeming feature of his presidency at the outset. The prevailing wisdom was that the triumvirate of James Mattis at Defense, Rex Tillerson at State, and H.R. McMaster at National Security would provide the kind of steadiness for Trump’s White House that training wheels… Read more.
At a joint press conference today, President Trump doubled down on his belief in President Putin’s denial that Russia launched cyberattacks on the 2016 US presidential election. This, despite his own intelligence agencies, which includes the CIA, FBI, and NSA, saying Russia did, and the Mueller investigation indicting 12 Russian agents for orchestrating those cyberattacks.… Read more.
