THE SAKER—So that is the real Russian message to the USA: you need us a heck of a lot more than we need you because you need to work with us or else you won’t get anything done, we are still willing to work with you, but if you go crazy then your global interests will suffer much more than ours; for all your hot air, you have been working with us all along and if you go overboard with the nonsense we will first reveal the extent of our collaboration and, if that is not enough to cool you down, we will terminate it.
February 2, 2018
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KEVIN MARTIN—Poor Rex Tillerson. Secretary of State must have sounded like an awesome job to the former Chairman and CEO of Exxon/Mobil, it certainly would to most people. The massive pay cut must have given him at least some pause, as he made more than $25 million in 2016.
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ANOTHER WARMONGER REWARDED FOR BEING WRONG ON IRAQ WAR
12 minutes readADAM JOHNSON—Of 46 current staff columnists, three—Michael Gerson, Mitch Daniels, Ed Rogers—actually worked for the George W. Bush administration, or (in the case of Rogers) with a private consulting group working on war planning with the Bush administration, when the invasion took place. This means the Post currently has on staff 50 percent more people who helped carry out one of the biggest war crimes of the 21st century than columnists who opposed it.
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ERIC ZUESSE/ GILBERT DOCTOROW—”The cinematic qualities of the film are evident. Nekrasov is highly experienced as a maker of documentaries enjoying a Europe-wide reputation. What sets this work apart from the ‘trade’ is the honesty, the integrity of the film-maker as he discovers midway into his project that key assumptions of his script are faulty and begins an independent investigation to get at the truth.”