The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Belarus: women's crusade

    By PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 2:06pm |

    US media falling for pro-Russia propaganda?

     

    Comments

    THIS! lol!

    So of the culture... 


    by artappraiser on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 4:31pm

    Yeah, Simonyan head of RT with her billion dollar budget, coming into Belarus claiming "I haven't seen any protests - I'm not going to go digging them out". They had a funny climb to acceptability for a while, at one point seemed they could be an Al Jazeera.


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 09/26/2020 - 4:59pm



    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/28/2020 - 3:43am


    Are the Caucusus the new Balkans? ISIS-Iraq-Turkey-Syria-Kurds was getting so moldy.
    (Is Azerbaijan-Armenia our new "countries over there we barely knew existed" focus for the next 2 months? or a distraction from any attention on Belarus? Though being just east of Poland, has a lot more significance in the EU & western news than countries east of Turkey by the Caspian Sea)


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/28/2020 - 3:56am


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 09/28/2020 - 10:14am


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 7:32am


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 5:58am


    Forget Cyprus...



    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 7:39am

    Protesters break curfew 


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 09/29/2020 - 7:19pm


    by artappraiser on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 6:06pm

    "Iron my shirt" no longer plays well, Vlad.


    by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 09/30/2020 - 9:34pm


    by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/01/2020 - 6:05am

    Russian journalist burns herself

    The Unbearable harassment of being a news person in Russia

    (short of RT or Sputnik)

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/02/irina-slavina-russian-jour...

    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 8:47am

    put all our "nightmares" in perspective:

    “What a nightmare,” Ilya Yashin, another Kremlin critic, wrote on Twitter. “All of these cases of police amusing themselves, these shows of men in masks – these are not games. The government is truly breaking people psychologically.”

    there's abuse and then there's ABUSE that can make someone want to burn themselves to death...


    by artappraiser on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 3:48pm

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 9:07am

    And backgrounder:

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/27/armenia-and-azerbaijan-a-decade...

     


    by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 10/03/2020 - 9:21am


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 11:20am


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 12:12pm

    China remakes Hong Kong

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/28/who-runs-hong-kong-party-f...


    by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 10/04/2020 - 1:14pm

    They just keep at it:


    by artappraiser on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 12:38am

    Lukashenko's clowns are useless https://t.co/LWVFhoW5Gg

    — Khodorkovsky Center (@mbk_center) October 4, 2020

    recommend to check out the rest of the thread and some of the comments! Especially Geoffrey from Uganda who says I wish the can sale this to the Ugandan government


    by artappraiser on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 2:34am

    They thought it was Brooklyn in July.


    by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 10/05/2020 - 6:15am


    by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 2:36am