The Reading Junkie

Public opinion, both inside Russia and in the international community, is divided on this question. However, I do not believe this was an orchestrated...

Evgeny Prigozhin agreed to halt his march on Moscow and avert “a bloodbath," the Belarusian president said....

Evgeny Prigozhin, owner and head of Wagner Group, is apparently attempting a coup, and Putin has formally accused him of such. Let's try to look at th...

Hungary has provoked international outrage by... rescuing Hungarian citizens from a Russian POW camp. ...

The swiss cheese model of accident causation is real. Almost every time there's a major accident, it comes to light soon afterward that there was a ch...

Five years ago, the popular clothing brand Grunt Style produced an iconic 30 second commercial depicting a heroic police officer facing off against an...

Whenever I see how likes/dislikes/reactions mushroom under a fresh post from a popular blogger on a popular platform, I think of a Petri dish with som...

On 16 January, 1991, President George Bush announced the beginning of the New World Order which, in his words, would replace the "law of the jungle." ...

Before I start, let me clarify something: there is no specific economic concept that I wholeheartedly support and I don’t consider myself a comm...

Remember that old Hans Christian Anderson story about emperor who walked through the streets naked, and everybody had to pretend he had clothes, out o...

In the past 18 months we have seen large scale offensives in the Ukraine. The first offensive, by Russian forces against NATO-trained defenders. Now w...

The Ukrainian "probing attacks" continue, with more to come. ...