Today’s wide-ranging discussion on one of RT’s most popular interview programs will no doubt raise hackles among those who seek conformism in independent media even as they reject the conformism of mainstream.
After all, I dare to question here the consistency of thinking of Jeffrey Sachs, the most eloquent critic of U.S. foreign policy who at the same time, in his role as economist, is an unapologetic Globalist, and Globalism is an instrument of American hegemony which breeds the violence that Sachs condemns.
But then again, I take a lesson from the honorable Charlie Kirk who promoted debate and sought truth wherever it led him. Truth, after all, is not a popularity contest.
I take my hat off to RT International for its encouragement of diversity.
The interview begins at minute 12 and runs to the end at 52 minutes. The topics discussed include Modi’s call upon his citizenry to “buy Indian,” Trump’s prioritization of normalizing relations with Russia in his foreign policy, Trump’s support for Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza, the key importance for the Middle East of the Pakistani-Saudi mutual defense agreement announced late last week, phony Western accusations of Russian aggression involving the overflight of Estonian air space late last week and the drone attacks on Poland two weeks ago
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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