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Understanding the Real Motive of Russian Interference
Embed from Getty Images — Vladimir Putin couldn’t have dreamed of a better scenario for the 2016 Presidential elections. Two candidates who were completely polarizing in their own ways. One who he...
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Why Trump Seems Normal to His Base
Embed from Getty Images Let’s start by establishing a few verifiable facts. Vladimir Putin’s government engaged in a large-scale, multi-pronged attempt to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election,...
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Cleaning up Trump’s White House Will Prove Difficult
Embed from Getty Images — The departure of Steve Bannon from his position as White House Chief Strategist was met with cheers by many who saw his presence in the administration as dangerous. His brand...
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Let’s Go to Georgia. Not in The US. The Exotic One, Bordered by Russia and...
Embed from Getty Images The wine world’s cool kids are buzzing about Georgia. That is, the Georgia that is bordered on the North by Russia, to the South by Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Check out the...
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A President Indifferent to Election Interference Can’t Lecture on Patriotism
9.28.17: Philadelphia – (Politics): The uncontrollable man-child occupying the Oval Office wants you to believe many things about him, mainly that he’s smart, a consummate deal-maker, rich and a...
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Few Likes for Facebook’s Role as a Russian Tool
> Source: 30dB.com – Facebook%20Russian%20Ads As The New York Times reported, a lot of the senators’ ire was directed at the Internet giant that Mark Zuckerberg built, especially after the...
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The World’s Silence on the Rohingya Genocide is Shameful—And Unsurprising
Embed from Getty Images — Four years ago, as I sat in a cozy coffee shop writing an article about the Syrian Civil War that remains depressingly relevant today, people died in Syria. They died for no...
View ArticleSocial’s Memo to Nunes: The FBI Memo Was a Bigtime Dud
> Source: 30dB.com – The%20Memo Last Friday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) released a memo alleging the investigation is tainted. Why? In seeking a warrant to spy on...
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Why We Must End the Prison-Industrial Complex
Embed from Getty Images — There are plenty of legitimate reasons to send someone to prison—deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation—but profit is not among them. Unfortunately, it’s an obscenely...
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Hate Putin, Love Russia
Embed from Getty Images — I grew up during the Cold War. When I joined the Marine Corps, the enemy we disparaged as we ran PT (physical training) in the morning was not yet Achmed or Haji, but Ivan....
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Collectively Visioning For the Future In A Remote Russian Village: My...
— By Ava Klinger I boarded a train in Saint Petersburg headed to Kizema, Russia with very little information about the event I was traveling to. All I knew was that it was located in a very remote...
View ArticleFrom Twitter to Russia With Very Little Love
> Source: 30dB.com – Russia While Trump called the meeting “historic,” Twitter users are feeling “furious” that the American President first took Putin’s word that Russian agents did not meddle in...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to Impotence
Embed from Getty Images — Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, we often hear the phrase “speaking truth to power.” Political pundits bemoan that no one on the President’s staff will speak their mind to...
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Channeling the Ancestors
— I am the daughter of Selma and Moish, granddaughter of Henrietta and Edward, Rebecca and Jacob. My mother was second-generation American born and my father first generation. My paternal grandparents...
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I Am My Father’s Daughter/Mother’s Daughter
Born to Selma and Morris (a.k.a. Moe or Moish) Weinstein on October 13th, 1958 in Philadelphia, I came in, according to family legend, on a wave of laughter. My parents had been out to one last hurrah...
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There is No Safe Way to Have Missiles Pointed at Each Other
I was born in 1958 which means I grew up in the Cold War era. Although I didn’t live in constant fear of bombs raining down on us, newscasts infiltrated my kid brain and I wondered if there would come...
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Ancestral Loss and Trauma
“We’re all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.” ― Liam Callanan I am a career therapist who has served clients immersed in loss, challenge and trauma, for four decades. It is an...
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Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols: Crash Course World History #20
— In which John Green teaches you how Russia evolved from a loose amalgamation of medieval principalities known as the Kievan Rus into the thriving democracy we know today. As you can imagine, there...
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The Icebreaker
For 7 days our crew passed through the Barents Sea to Karsky around the Novaya Zemlya archipelago on the nuclear icebreaker Yamal – we saw the northern lights and polar bears, watched the ships stuck...
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Paris Climate Accord Awaits Russian Backing
— By Alex Kirby LONDON, 30 August, 2019 − Officials in Moscow say the Russian government plans, after several years’ hesitation, to ratify the global agreement, the Paris climate accord, within the...
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