“The main thing is, they’re talking about us.”Joseph Goebbels, The Goebbels Diaries by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, June 29, 2020) (PDF Version) Comparing Trump’s presidency with past fascist regimes, and particularly that of Hitler’s Germany, is generally seen as partisan hyperbole. Past warnings of a Nazi-like leader taking hold in America — like Sinclair [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, November 11, 2019) (PDF Version) A majority of Americans support the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump. With each witness’s testimony, they learn the extent of how Trump risked America’s national security and betrayed his oath to the Constitution to extort Ukraine’s new leader for his own political benefit. [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, May 23, 2019) In the manner of Russian propaganda, where everything is true if it supports the leader, Donald Trump has asserted simultaneously that the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller completely exonerated him (“No collusion, no obstruction, game over”) and that the Special Counsel’s investigation was completely illegitimate [...]
by Eric Chenoweth (The Shanker Blog, November 5, 2018) “Which world is ‘natural’? That which existed before or the world of war? Both are natural if both are within the realm of one’s experience.” Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind, 1953 It was a political eternity ago. In 2016, several political commentators (myself included) warned about [...]
by Eric Chenoweth The American Interest (Published on: June 4, 2018) Despite all the diminishment, denial, and deflection, the evidence is mounting that Russian interference may have tipped the 2016 election. In mid-February, the news cycle was saturated with coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russians, the St. Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency [...]
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by Eric Chenoweth The following appeared in the Washington Post, November 26, 2016. In assessing Donald Trump’s presidential victory, Americans continue to look away from this election’s most alarming story: the successful effort by a hostile foreign power to manipulate public opinion prior to the vote. […]
The following article appeared in The Washington Post, November 2, 2016. By Eric Chenoweth Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy has posed many challenges to U.S. media. In at least one frightening respect, it has failed: News outlets are actively abetting an authoritarian and imperialist foreign power’s attempt to manipulate a U.S. presidential election to aid its [...]
By Irena Lasota, 04.12.2015 Ten tekst nie jest przeznaczony dla fundamentalnych pacyfistów. Myślę, że każdy normalny człowiek jest przeciwko wojnie jako takiej. Ale gdy już toczy się wojna bądź istnieje jej groźba, można o tym dyskutować i popierać ją czy potępiać w zależności od naszych poglądów politycznych, wartości moralnych i poczucia sprawiedliwości.Gdy Turcja zestrzeliła 24 [...]
On 12 March in Moscow the Russian President Vladimir Putin had a half-hour conversation with leader of the Crimean Tatars, Mustafa Jamil. Mediator in the conversation was ex-President Mintimer Shaimiyev. […]