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Sublime News #3
1. Over the long-term, it is the less-noticed things that generally come to be regarded as the most important. The rise of China, not the war on terror. Peak oil and the declining EROEI of our energy sources, not stock market bumps and falls. And so on. In this spirit, the recent NATO exercises in the [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged arctic, balkans, blogging, brazil, china, climate, demography, economy, energy, france, geopolitics, global warming, hi-tech, Humor, imperialism, israel, military, nato, neoliberalism, news 2010, poland, russophobes, turkey, usa, ussr, war, western hypocrisy 17 Comments
Sublime News #1
I am beginning a new post category, Sublime News, in which I collate and comment on news bits and pieces that I find interesting over the past week. Whatever I write over the week will be automatically published every Saturday, 12pm (California time). This first post will be exceptional in that it will cover a [...]
Posted in Sublime News Also tagged britain, china, climate change, corruption, demography, geopolitics, hi-tech, Humor, latin america, military, morale, news 2010, peak oil, politics, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russophobes, turkey, ukraine, usa, war 11 Comments
Voice of the People Part 3
This is a summary of opinion polls conducted by the Levada-Center, Russia’s Gallup, since February 2009, and continues from Part 1 and Part 2. Along with the original post Lovely Levada, this series constitutes a unique English-language reference for social trends under late Putinism as expressed by the Russian people themselves, rather than the limousine [...]
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged authoritarianism, baltics, belarus, corruption, culture, economy, estonia, georgia, history, human rights, international relations, medvedev, military, morale, opinion poll, politics, putin, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, soviet union, ukraine, western hypocrisy 2 Comments
Interview @ Siberian Light
Posted in Da Russophile Also tagged collapse, core article, human rights, imperialism, interview, life, me, morale, philosophy, politics, putin, rant, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, singularity, soviet union, usa, western hypocrisy, western media Comments closed
Lessons from Byzantium
I finally watched the film Гибель Империи. Византийский урок (Death of an Empire: the Byzantine Lesson), narrated by Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, the father-confessor of Vladimir Putin. This film takes a stylized interpretation of the decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire – the root cause of which is attributed to mystical factors such as loss of faith [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged collapse, corruption, culture, history, imperialism, islam, morale, politics, review, Russia Resources, russians, russophobes, stalin, video, western hypocrisy 4 Comments
Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
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Russia’s Sisyphean Loop
The Eternal Return to the Future?
In this article I attempt to explain Russia’s historical cycles of failed Westernization and to project its future socio-political trajectory. First, I note the nature of and linkages between Russia’s geography, cultural traditions and imperial cycles. Second, using a ‘Belief Matrix’ [...]
Posted in Da Russophile, Sublime Oblivion Also tagged authoritarianism, communism, core article, corruption, culture, demography, economy, geopolitics, history, imperialism, jews, medvedev, military, morale, poland, putin, resource depletion, Russia Resources, russians, soviet union, stalin, vision, western hypocrisy, western media 5 Comments
Sublime News #4