The European Parliament needs a vast overhaul and re-think if it is to be anything more than a top down run voting machine in the hands of the same big countries and big parties that otherwise control the Council and populate the Commission with their minions. Read on….
Continue reading “Democracy Deficit in the European Parliament”
The Establishment boys are long out of practice at debates. In their contemptuous dismissal of any opponents who present another vision of events, they have gone flabby. Read on…
Continue reading “Foreign Affairs magazine, November-December 2014: the Mearsheimer Debate”
“Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad.” Read on….
Continue reading “Twilight of the Gods: George Soros in Brussels”
Imposition of sanctions on Russia by ruling of the European Council violated procedures of the European Institutions. Thus, those who denounce Putin’s Russia for alleged authoritarian decision making, would do better to look in the mirror at the democratic deficit in the capital of Europe. Read on….
Continue reading “Alphabet Soup is Good for You: United Left in the European Parliament”
Today’s task is to move from Alexander Herzen’s ‘Who is Guilty,’ meaning to end the acrimonious finger pointing over who started the New Cold War, and to take up Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s challenge of ‘What is to be Done?’ Read on…
Continue reading “American civil society – hostage to the sanctions policy”
Mikhail Khodorkovsky isn’t a modern day Alexander Herzen. His openrussia.org isn’t The Bell. And Russian society is not asleep; on the contrary it is a beehive of activity and of free debate. Read on…
John Mearsheimer’s essay deals a devastating blow to the War Party in Washington. And yet the authors of our misbegotten policy towards Russia are let off easy by this contrarian political scientist who made his name exposing the Israel Lobby. Read on…
When businesses understand how their interests can be best defended by civil society acting through a Committee on East West Accord to roll back the sanctions, I expect they will give a sympathetic hearing to our request for funding. Read on….
Continue reading “Speech to the US-Russia Forum, Hotel Arbat, Moscow, 8 September 2014”
How may we understand Obama’s insulting assertions about Russia in his latest interview with The Economist newspaper and what do they tell us about his Russian policy? Read on….
Continue reading “House of Cards and the Obama Administration’s Policy on Russia”
Russian journalism is emerging from pro-Western wishful thinking to something resembling consciousness of the national interest. For these salutary changes in Russian informational space, one can only thank President Obama and his neocon-dominated administration. Read on…
Continue reading “The Worm Turns: Russian Pundits on the Ukrainian Crisis and Western Sanctions”
Gilbert Doctorow 