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In a letter to Russian authorities this week, former Beatle Paul McCartney asked them to release the remaining members of Pussy Riot from prison. McCartney’s missive comes as the punk band’s Maria Alyokhina began a hunger strike after she was not allowed to attend her own parole hearing.
Posted on May 23, 2013
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AP/Ivan Sekretarev
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By Juan Cole — Not since the end of the Cold War in 1991 has Russia asserted itself so forcefully beyond its borders.
Posted on May 20, 2013
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Chechen scholar Thomas Goltz gives a historical primer on the centuries old culture and struggle that shaped the Tsarnaev brothers, suspects in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.
Posted on May 17, 2013
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AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko
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By Ivo Mijnssen — The collapse of the Cypriot banking system reveals much about the complex relationship among ordinary Russians, “offshore oligarchs” and a political system that depends on both.
Posted on May 14, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists ask, in the context of the new jobs report, whether the U.S. has two economies. Also, Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio wants immigration reform and President Obama does also, so what will it take to get it passed?
Posted on May 3, 2013
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Update: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody Friday night in Watertown, Mass., after he was discovered hiding in a boat parked in the driveway of a home.
Posted on Apr 19, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Mar 21, 2013
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia’s weapons merchants are back in the international limelight and the industry is booming.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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If the Earth’s average global temperature rises by another few tenths of a degree, a large area of Siberian permafrost will start to melt uncontrollably, releasing 160 to 290 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in the years that follow. But the dangers have been overhyped, a British climate scientist says.
Posted on Feb 22, 2013
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A meteor flying over the skies of Russia on Friday produced stunning images, but it also injured some 500 people.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Jan 8, 2013
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
Posted on Jan 7, 2013
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Jan 5, 2013
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French actor Gerard Depardieu has resorted to becoming Russian in order to avoid paying taxes in France, with a little help from Vladimir Putin of course; Jane Harman is being considered for CIA director, despite her past involvement in an Israeli intelligence influence operation; meanwhile, the Obama administration has been compiling a database that helps it determine how to treat a suspected terrorist. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 4, 2013
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Emad Hajjaj, Cagle Cartoons, Jordan —
Posted on Jan 3, 2013
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AP/Ivan Sekretarev
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Russia is cracking down further on political dissent by requiring foreign humanitarian workers to register, more or less, as spies.
Posted on Dec 18, 2012
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The Russian ambassador to the United Nations on Monday said an unnamed country (“I’m sure you can guess which”) was engaged in a “filibuster attempt” to block a statement condemning the violence in Gaza.
Posted on Nov 19, 2012
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Photo by Paul Lowry (CC-BY)
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By the end of the decade, the United States will produce more barrels of oil per day than Saudia Arabia and more gas than Russia, according to a report by the intergovernmental International Energy Agency.
Posted on Nov 12, 2012
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U.S. Navy/Chief Mass Communication Specialist Keith Deviney
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By Robert Scheer — Obama, the naive community organizer, thinks the foreign policy debate is about national security, but Romney, the quintessential vulture capitalist, knows that it’s always been about maximizing profit.
Posted on Oct 26, 2012
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U.S. Marine Corps/SSgt Jeff Kaus
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By William Pfaff — The United States is intellectually adrift upon an exceptionally turbulent sea running in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf, and on the larger scene, Washington is blundering into serious trouble with Russia and probably with a China that is on the edge of both foreign and domestic crises.
Posted on Oct 23, 2012
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By Steven Starr, David Krieger and Daniel Ellsberg —
Fifty years after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and more than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, the U.S. and Russian nuclear confrontation continues. Each nation still keeps a total of about 800 ICBMs at launch-ready status, ready to be fired on a few minutes’ warning.
Posted on Oct 16, 2012
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Days after an appeals court unexpectedly released her from the Russian authorities’ iron grip, Yekaterina Samutsevich has vowed to continue staging anonymous, anti-Putin protests with her feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot.
Posted on Oct 13, 2012
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Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons —
Posted on Oct 8, 2012
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According to the Russian government, the U.S. is using its foreign aid organization in Moscow to secretly influence the country’s politics and elections. The U.S. Agency for International Development, known as USAID, will be expelled as part of a broad attempt to stifle the opposition movement.
Posted on Sep 19, 2012
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Dmitry Medvedev has called for the three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, recently sentenced to a two-year prison term by the Russian government for an anti-Putin protest in Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox Church, to be set free.
Posted on Sep 12, 2012
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While Americans paused Tuesday to reflect on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 and the loss of nearly 3,000 innocent lives, the National Archives has released new evidence of Washington’s cover-up of an atrocity 72 years ago that killed more than seven times as many people.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The major threat in the Middle East to international peace is Syria’s civil war, not the rhetorical battles between Iran and an Israel that claims to be straining against its American leash.
Posted on Sep 11, 2012
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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In this edition of Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Ms. magazine Executive Editor Kathy Spillar on Todd Akin and friends; Pussy Riot; keeping native languages alive; and the enduring impact of war on women.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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In this edition of Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Ms. magazine Executive Editor Kathy Spillar on Todd Akin and friends; Pussy Riot; Syria; keeping native languages alive; and the enduring impact of war on women.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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Olle Johansson, Cagle Cartoons, Sweden —
Posted on Aug 22, 2012
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AP/Alex Katz
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By Ivo Mijnssen — The Pussy Riot case has become an international PR disaster for the Russian government, but domestically Russia’s conservative majority is rallying behind Vladimir Putin.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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AP/Markus Schreiber
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A Moscow judge has convicted three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot of hooliganism in a verdict that amounts to a defense of the Russian Orthodox Church’s apparent right to be shielded from criticism within its own walls.
Posted on Aug 17, 2012
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AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko
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“If this political system throws itself against three girls ... it shows this political system is afraid of truth,” a member of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot said as a judge set a verdict date on charges that the musicians engaged in hooliganism against the Russian government.
Posted on Aug 8, 2012
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AP/Misha Japaridze
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A Moscow judge on Friday ordered three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot to remain in jail awaiting trial for an anti-Putin performance in Moscow’s major church, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, in February.
Posted on Jul 21, 2012
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Ivo Mijnssen
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By Ivo Mijnssen — Like the United States, Russia struggles with crumbling infrastructure, but Moscow has devised a novel solution: lower standards.
Posted on Jun 12, 2012
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Lev Melnikov (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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First Quebec’s government outlawed dissent with its notorious Bill 78, which galvanized hundreds of thousands of Canadians in the struggle against university tuition hikes. Now Russia’s parliament has approved legislation fining demonstrators more than $9,000 and organizers as much as $18,000.
Posted on Jun 6, 2012
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By William Pfaff — The reaction of Hillary Clinton and some others in the West has been in the full Cold War mode, denouncing the Russians as obstacles to peace. In fact, the Russians could be very useful in finding a settlement and seem to ask simply that their own interests in the Middle East be respected.
Posted on Jun 5, 2012
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Among the latest developments in the Syrian humanitarian crisis, China and Russia have reaffirmed their opposition to a forced regime change; Turkey and Japan joined 11 other countries in expelling Syrian diplomats, and the U.N.’s Human Rights Council is due to meet to discuss the massacre in the city of Houla.
Posted on May 30, 2012
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In a bid to remain the world’s top oil producer, Russia is partnering with Exxon Mobil and a number of other foreign oil companies to develop plans to get at reserves deep beneath the Arctic crust as early as 2020.
Posted on May 25, 2012
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AP/Khalid Mohammed)
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Two days of discussion over Iran’s nuclear program ended in uncertainty Thursday, with Iran maintaining it has the right to enrich nuclear fuel and the lead negotiator for the European Union stating vaguely that “significant problems remain” with the Iranian position. Negotiations are set to resume in June.
Posted on May 24, 2012
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AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko
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By Ivo Mijnssen — There is one day when it never rains in Moscow, a day when Russia’s air force literally shoots down rain-bearing clouds with a chemical agent to reinforce the spectacle.
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Scott Tucker disrupts the celebration of Obama’s gay marriage announcement; the Green Party candidate; Robert Scheer and Sergei Plekhanov; austerity check; and the class politics of parking tickets.
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Photo illustration from an image by Colin Grey (CC-BY)
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Last time on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Scott Tucker disrupts the celebration of Obama’s gay marriage announcement; the Green Party candidate; Robert Scheer and Sergei Plekhanov; austerity check; and the class politics of parking tickets.
Posted on May 15, 2012
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Mika Stetsovski (CC BY 2.0)
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Ground control lost contact with a demonstration model of a new Russian passenger jet as the plane flew over a mountainous area of Indonesia on Wednesday. The 50 people aboard, many of them prospective buyers, are missing.
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AP/Mikhail Metzel
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Police in Russia’s capital began cracking heads Sunday once some of the 20,000 Russians marching against Vladimir Putin made a turn for the Kremlin. Putin resumes the presidency Monday after a four-year interlude as prime minister.
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By Pepe Escobar, TomDispatch —
Here’s the multi-trillion dollar question: Does the emergence of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa as economic powers signal that we have truly entered a new multipolar world?
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itsray (CC-BY)
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Three members of the Russian feminist punk group Pussy Riot face up to seven years in jail for seizing the pulpit of Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in mid-February and mocking Vladimir Putin, then a candidate for the Russian presidency.
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AP/Local Coordination Committees in Syria
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Despite news of the Syrian government’s acceptance of a peace plan brought in by special envoy Kofi Annan a day before, by Wednesday it was clear that those headlines didn’t mean much in the way of actual progress in Syria.
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