Thomas Drolet "Thorium Reactors and their Feasibility" (Cambridge House)

President Obama: Brussels Speech.

The most frightening thing about this diatribe is not the mendacity of Pres. Obama, but that he believes that we should believe this rubbish, and cast our lives away upon its platitudes. Just to set the record strait, the real threat to the democratic values and way of life in Europe is not the Russian Federation but the United States. The United States has never in living memory pursued the interests of the people. It is a country designed to be the plaything of the super-rich, and all the cant about human rights, as Edward Snowden and Pvt. Manning have exposed, are worth less than nothing when the cameras are off. In the last twenty years the United States has maintained its tenuous hold on international hegemony through destabilizing region after region of the world.

Likewise NATO has shed its cloak of anti-communism and has supported American power as a criminal organization engaging in countless war crimes and violations of international law. I have already dealt in depth with the reality of American involvement in Ukraine. There is no need to re-address the despicable nature of Washington's hyper-power.

Though there is a irony here that needs to be addressed. It is in the interest of the United States to curtail its foreign obligations and manage problems at home, not becoming entangled in Ukraine. It is in the interest of the Russia that the US stay out of central Europe. It is in the interests of the EU that America observe from a distance rather than dictate what is essentially internal policy to European states. In short everyone who can have an stake in Ukraine has a vested interest in the United States bending on Ukraine. Yet, the US is still going to meddle in Ukraine for years to come, provoking the Russians and in good time the Poles and the Germans. I would like to see the President answer this question--Why?

Sean Gervasi "How the US Terminated the USSR."

Stephen F. Cohen "US Betrayal of Russia."

Venezuelan Protests: Another Attempt By U.S.-Backed Right-Wing Groups To Oust Elected Government? (Democracy Now!)

Some Thoughts on Russia's Annexation of Crimea.

By Gene Ogorodov

The incorporation of the Autonomous Region of Crimea into the Russian Federation is a flagrant violation of the Budapest Memorandum, which ensured the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine. Since this action by the Kremlin contravenes international law it is a justification for war between US and Russia. The danger to the entire globe of such a course cannot be over stated. I soundly condemn the behavior of the Russian Federation.

A New Cold War? Ukraine Violence Escalates, Leaked Tape Suggests U.S. Was Plotting Coup. (Democracy Now!)

A Theological Analysis of Ken Ham

By Gene Ogorodov

Early in February the Creation Museum hosted a debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Both of these people are notorious for their outspoken support for their own world view. Ken Ham has been the world's leading proponent of Intelligent Design for several decades, and in 2013 Nye sparked a firestorm among Christians in the US when he (rightly) compared Creationism to Astrology. Although falling far short of the sensationalism of either the Scope's Trial, or even Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover, once again America has demonstrated the indefatigably of bad ideas, with overwhelming popular appeal. Spontaneous creation of earth and all its "kinds" six to ten thousand years ago should have died in the mid 1850's, but alas one and half centuries later the proliferation of this stupidity, like our universe, is expanding ever faster.

Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham

USS Liberty: Dead In The Water (BBC)

Quentin Skinner "A Genealogy of Liberty."

Richard Sennett "The Decline of the Skills Society."

David Simon "The Audacity of Despair."

The Unforgiveable Sin.

By Gene Ogorodov

In the past couple of weeks the Western media has committed the unforgivable sin of likening the Russian Federation to the Third Reich. With regards to Russia, political punditry has left the realm of reasonable biased apologetics, and entered the turbulent seas of pure emotive manipulation usually reserved for dictatorial right-wing nut jobs on Fox News. 

This accusation may seem hypocritical since here on The Boston Pine Flag we have frequently labeled Western Governments as Fascist, but we have an excuse--by any reasonable definition they are. Vladimir Putin is not Adolf Hitler and United Russia is certainly not the National Socialist Party. Furthermore, the Russian Federation is much more scrupulous about international treaties than Nazi Germany ever was.

Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth: The Mask of Eternity."

An Open Letter to Democarcy Now!

The following letter was sent to Democracy Now! during the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

Dear Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:

The current social unrest in the Ukraine is disadvantageous to both the Europeans and the Russians. Even though Yanukovych won in 2010 on a pro-Russian ticket, since 2011 he had been making clear and orderly steps to implement the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement. Considering that Germany gets most of its oil and natural gas from Russia through Ukraine and Putin has had little fear in the past of stopping the flow when Ukraine has become openly hostile to Russia, both Germany and Russia had a vested interest in maintaining the former status quo. If Germany faces an energy crisis, its economy will go into recession and bring the EU down with it.

Joseph Campbell "The Power of Myth: Love and the Goddess."