Tag: Russia
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An Alleged Copy of a White House Transcript Provided Courtesy of Russia [Satire]
![An Alleged Copy of a White House Transcript Provided Courtesy of Russia [Satire]](https://afternoonjournal.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/vladimir_putin_carrying_his_buddy_donald_trump.jpg?w=512)
By John Kaufman Discussion in the Offal Oval Office of The White House via Great Generosity of Russia !Official Transcript! cc: U.S.A. Russian Foreign Minister: Hey, Donny. What’s new? President T.: I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day. F.M.: No kidding. What’s “intel”? T. : You know, secret stuff. […]
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The “Human Rights Poetry” of Yevgeny Yevtushenko Very Relevant Today
By John Frederick Kaufman Speaking of his poetry, here’s what Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 84, told the Associated Press in an interview back in 2007: “I don’t call it political poetry, I call it human rights poetry; the poetry which defends human conscience as the […]
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Good Advice for U.S. on Russia/Ukraine
An opinion piece worth reading via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Jeffrey W. Sommers of the Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee. — JK
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Weekend Rebuttal: The War Hawks on Ukraine
Today we can confirm that Russia has sent troops into the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine. President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry had warned Russia not to invade Ukraine, and Putin decided not to obey. Of course, it doesn’t help our moral, political high ground much that the United States has recently invaded both […]
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