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Contributing editor and volunteer translator Tom Winter, retired Classics professor, monitors the news in 6 languages, and sometimes cannot help writing satire, since that’s what today’s news mostly deserves

Syria Sanctions — a death sentence, part two

Tom Winter May 26, 2019 0

Instead of having the country rebuilt, we're sending relief organizations to keep people in shelters and tents, from hand to mouth, and just enough to avoid dying. "We can rebuild…
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MENA

Syria Sanctions – A death sentence, part one

Tom Winter May 26, 2019 0

"but I want to emphasize that punitive measures are only making the situation worse." Particularly "frightening" is that "over-enforcement of sanctions forces humanitarian and economic…
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Russia

US becoming good customer for Russian oil

Tom Winter May 23, 2019 0

“Ironically, the Russians benefit from the collapse of Venezuela: one hostile sanctioned country replaces the other hostile sanctioned country in supplies to the United States,"
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Eurasia

Game of Maidan: A snake pit prepared for Zelensky

Tom Winter May 19, 2019 0

For this is not the only reason why Zelensky's nomination got postponed. The other reason is that Poroshenko and Parbubiy also wanted to get the infamous Ukrainian language law passed,…
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Anglo 5

Yulia Skripal is selling her Moscow apartment, by proxy

Tom Winter May 19, 2019 0

"Yulia Skripal does not plan to return to Russia: she has already sold a Ford car by proxy, and now there is an active sale going on for her two-room apartment. They are looking for a…
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Russia

Kiev joins US in trying to stop Nord Stream II

Tom Winter May 18, 2019 0

Just last week, US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry campaigned in Brussels for the purchase of more US LNG, insisting the US is a more reliable partner for energy than Russia. However,…
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Eurasia

The five years of the Donbass Independence Referendum

Tom Winter May 12, 2019 0

Since then, the inhabitants have defended their land, arms in hand, and paid a heavy price for their refusal to submit to an extremist, repressive operetta regime that hides its real…
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Eurasia

Lugansk forces shoot down Ukrainian spotter drone

Tom Winter May 10, 2019 0

Drones, and ridding the skies of them, have become a regular feature of the war against the Donbass Republics:
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Eurasia

“Mama, are they robots?” The children of Donbass under artillery and sniper fire: Part…

Tom Winter May 10, 2019 0

- Just at that time there were many dead and wounded in Slavyansk, we helped, collected necessary help with their own money by the carload, accepted refugees, evacuated people. The kids…
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Ukraine

“Mama, are they robots?” the children of Donbass under artillery and sniper fire, Part…

Tom Winter May 9, 2019 0

I came to Alexandrovka several times, and each time there was unrest - machine guns rattled, something rumbled, and on our last visit we also came under fire as we came out from a…
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