First Public Comments After African People’s Socialist Party Members Indicted for Colluding with Russia

May 23, 2023May 23, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

SAINT PETERSBURG, Florida—Three of the four U.S.-based defendants in the U.S. government’s case about a conspiracy with Russia to sow social discord spoke out May 10 for the first time since indictments dropped last month.
First Public Comments After African People’s Socialist Party Members Indicted for Colluding with Russia

Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum

March 18, 2023March 18, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

“THERE IS NO WAY he is a victim of communism,” my partner quips, pointing to a photo of the late Pope John Paul II. We are near the end of our visit to the new Victims of Communism Museum, standing in an elevator-size lobby with photographs of “victims” screen-printed all over the walls. Among the many victims and honorees: Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, the Dalai Lama, Romanian writer Herta Müller, Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, and Hungarian neofascist Viktor Orbán.
Red Scared: Revising history at the Victims of Communism Museum (archived)

Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis

September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession
Europe, more than Putin, must shoulder the blame for the energy crisis

Doubts, Death and Democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev’s Bitter-Sweet Legacy

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

By Deborah L. Armstrong

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, is dead at the age of 91.

He survived 31 years longer than the country of his birth, which he dissolved in 1991 despite a referendum of the people, who overwhelmingly voted to keep the USSR up and running.
Doubts, Death and Democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev’s Bitter-Sweet Legacy