In the various, shall we say ‘exotic’ panel discussion programs that I occasionally agree to participate in, you never know whom you will be matched with or what questions will be thrown your way, assuming you can actually hear the questions (which was not really the case yesterday in my session on Press TV, hence my not answering the first question thrown out to me).
Two days ago I appeared on a News X World (India) program in which I was matched with a former NY Times staff journalist and holder of the Pulitzer Prize who is a wholly committed Neocon and spouted the most outrageous calumny against Trump including all the Russia-gate accusations over interference in the 2016 elections that Tulsi Gabbard recently proved were fabricated and were backed by both Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama in violation of federal law.
Last night I was matched with John Bosnitch, a journalist and political activist from Canada who probably has a Communist Party of the Soviet Union membership card in his back pocket.
That is the roll of the dice. It makes me all the more appreciative of the efforts of hosts like Judge Andrew Napolitano and University of Southeast Norway professor Glenn Diesen to bring serious discussants to the attention of their large audiences on their youtube channels.
Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write.
Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975).
After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility.
From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University.
Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.
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