Photograph Phil Hall (1984) Putin should stop kissing icons and start jailing more oligarchs by Richard Steinhardt To the extent that Vladimir Putin seeks to restore legitimacy to the current Russian state, he must confront its foundational crimes and confiscate the assets stolen by the criminal oligarchic class. President Vladimir…
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NATO
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Game, Set & Match to Russia
Putin, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller, and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photograph Kremlin Ru, Public Domain …unless NATO carries out a pre-emptive strike by Richard Steinhardt We can all agree that the political situation in the world today is grave. Has the geopolitical situation ever been more precarious? The German leader, Chancellor Mertz, says he…
Food
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My Grandfather the Gourmet
Grandpa Richard Steinhardt carousing with friends at the New Year, Vienna (1929) by Phil Hall . Grandpa was an admirer of Napoleon, and this was partly why he chose to live in Golfe Juan in 1972. The other reason they both chose to live in Golfe was because they had…
Conformity
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Unquestioning Scientists & Servile Intellectuals
Photo by Vanessa Loring By Richard Steinhardt The genre of science fiction begins, really, with Frankenstein and flourishes with Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. Jules Verne wrote in the era after Isambard Kingdom Brunel had already built his giant iron ships and bridges suspended from one cliff to another. Think of the…
Oreshnik
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UKRAINE & ORWELL’S PROBLEM
Detail of the cover of ‘Scoop’ by Evelyn Waugh People who dare to call themselves anti-fascists are still supporting the Banderite regime by RICHARD STEINHARDT In Evelyn Waugh’s novel Scoop, a journalist is assigned to a foreign country where nothing much is happening of any geopolitical interest. Rather than report the…
Ernesto Cardenal
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THE TALE OF TWO MORE POPES
The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost, photo Edgar Beltrán in The Pillar Wikimedia Commons BRICS will now view the Vatican as an arm of the US State Department by RICHARD STEINHARDT From the perspective of BRICS-aligned nations and their analytical institutions, the death of Pope Francis and the election of…
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