Over the past year the literary world has been debating the appropriateness of teaching or reading Russian literature. In Ukraine, streets named after Lermontov and Dostoevsky, big hawks of Russian expansionism, are being renamed after writers who supported Ukrainian independence.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the news came that Queen Elizabeth II had died after 70s of her reign at the age of 96, the outpouring of grief and tributes to her character spread quickly and widely. I do not doubt that this public[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So The Guardian reports that Libyan villagers attempting to help downed U.S. airmen were rewarded for their efforts by U.S. forces firing on them: Libyans who went to investigate the US warplane’s crash site said that a US helicopter had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The France-led (sic) international coalition military intervention “Odyssey Dawn” operation against Gadaffi forces in Libya is necessarily controversial. Liberal Democrats are upset that Obama has side-stepped his constitutional responsibility to consult Congress in matters of war waging (Kucinich is already[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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