Ukraine back to the edge?
Soon after the Interior minister helped keep Ukraine from falling into a civil war, someone may have poisoned him. Captain Ed, a big fan of The Sopranos, thinks politics in Kiev is beginning to resemble his favorite show.
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Required reading. A brilliant essay on the differences between European and American views of the world and why our interests diverge. (*****)John H. Fund: Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
A very important book. It lays bare just how creaky and open to abuse our elections system is, and why reforms are needed now. (*****)Alexander Vassiliev: The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - -The Stalin Era
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Bawer, a liberal American ex-pat in Norway, warns of the danger Europe and the West face from the growing population of unassimilated, anti-liberal radical Muslim immigrants there. (****)Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill's War Leadership (Vintage)
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