Aug 09, 2013 // It has been said that the Balkan region produces more history than can be consumed locally. Much of the world would prefer to forget the bloody breakup of former Yugoslavia, if only to escape the competing versions of history that members of the various communities seem so inordinately fond of reciting.
— Read on www.diplomaticourier.com/posts/balkan-peace-and-prosperity-will-remain-elusive-unless-freed-of-dead-hand-of-the-1990s
The Breakup of Yugoslavia
NSA whistleblower says “new platforms and algorithms” can have direct effect on human behavior
— Read on www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/31/edward-snowden-technology-institutions-have-made-most-effective-means-social-control
It’s confession time … Without getting overly autobiographical, it is worth noting that my perspectives (whatever their value) on American public policy and global affairs…
— Read on www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/11/my-role-in-weaponizing-moral-equivalence-and-religious-freedom/
Posting for a few reasons, including my own personal interest in the Orthodox Church. I hadn’t known that Mr. Jatras was an Orthodox Christian, until I followed him on Twitter a while back. I recently found his writings on the Chinese Uighurs, which he also mentions in this article. Someday I will have to put together a list of people who I admire. It won’t a long list, since I’m still new to geopolitics, but Jim Jatras will definitely be on that list!
In the wake of Robert Mueller’s calculated handoff of the “Get Trump” portfolio to the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, two things are evident. First, President…
— Read on www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/06/01/trump-will-be-impeached-stupid-party-says-bring-on/
*Smirks* Gotcha!
Russia’s navy may have taken another pod of whales to the Olenya Guba base, in a bay of the Barents Sea, in the north west of the country after a beluga ‘defected’ to Norway.
— Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7075547/Is-secret-base-Russian-spy-beluga-came-Photos-reveal-Russians-built-new-whale-pen.html
Russia Declares Northern Passage Effectively Closed to Foreign Warships
— Read on www.checkpointasia.net/russia-declares-northern-passage-effectively-closed-to-foreign-warships/
Joe Manchin sounds like we need a few more NATO bases surrounding Russia:
Then again, are they hiding something?
IAEA Confirms Iranian Compliance for the Fifteenth Time | The American Conservative
— Read on www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/iaea-confirms-iranian-compliance-for-the-fifteenth-time/
If only Orange Obama read the daily intelligence reports, himself, instead of “trusting” his team!
US-Delisted MEK Terrorists Still Openly Committed to Violence | New Eastern Outlook
— Read on journal-neo.org/2018/09/29/us-delisted-mek-terrorists-still-openly-committed-to-violence/
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 