The 20th century American sociologist Robert Merton is credited with discovering  the phenomenon of “imperious immediacy of interest.” By that he was referring to instances in which someone wants the intended consequence of an action so much that he or she purposefully chooses to ignore any unintended effects. The ultimate result then is a serious mistake due to incomplete analysis.

​In the current century America has committed this error by targeting Russia without a fully thought out plan.  Let's take a look at a number of "sure-fire" actions intended to weaken Russia and bring her to her knees - an ill-conceived plan which took the form of a three-pronged attack.

1. The Economic War. "Sanctions and a dramatically low Oil price will destroy the Russian economy!" Why? Because "Russia doesn't make anything" as Barack Obama stated. This is a glaring example of believing in one's own propaganda. The cause of this error is simple: instead of employing scholars and professionals with expertise on all things Russian, recent administrations have hired ideologues and outright Russophobes hoping for Russia's demise. In the first instance sanctions only strenghtened Russia economically by forcing her to become more self-sufficient. Sectors of the economy that relied on foreign goods and technology have been "Russified". In the second instance lower Oil prices did not destroy Russia's economy because - as it turns out- Russia does have a moderately diversified economy not wholly reliant on the high price of Oil.     
2. Information warfare. There is a popular belief that if you repeat a lie often enough most people will confuse it with an unassailable truth. This tactic can often succeed, but not always. The flip side to this technique is the unexpected "sky is falling" phenomenon. If you make a claim too often without any empirical  evidence (Collusion, Hacking, Poisoning etc) people will no longer pay attention to you and even scoff at continuous attempts to convince them of your dubious claims.
3. The War Trap. America and its peceived allies in the Middle East (most notably Saudi Arabia and Turkey) funded and supported ISIS and Al-Qaeda to overthrow the Syrian president (a thorn in the side of the American Empire) and draw Russia into an unwinnable war. Syria was intended to be "Russia's Vietnam". The  Pentagon/CIA braintrust behind the gameplan convinced the political leaders of America that Russia's military was woefully inadequate to the task of taking on such a formidable opponent with an unlimited supply of weapons and troops. After years of proxy war the Russian military has proven to be more than capable, surprising the "experts" with superior tactical knowledge and cutting-edge technology. In addition to this shocking discovery is the loss of a key NATO ally in Turkey.

These blunders have not only failed to weaken Russia; they have actually weakened America. The great super power now appears not only fallible, but ineffectual and geo-politically impotent.  

And THAT is the most serious of all unintended consequences.

By Paul Kindlon

This post first appeared on Russia Insider: 
https://russia-insider.com/en/americas-war-russia-actually-making-america-weaker/ri23038

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Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area.

He is one of the better-known thinkers The New Yorker has dubbed 'The Dystopians' in an excellent 2009 profile [1], along with James Howard Kunstler, another regular contributor to RI (archive). [2] These theorists believe that modern society is headed for a jarring and painful crack-up.

He is best known for his 2011 book comparing Soviet and American collapse [3] (he thinks America's will be worse). He is a prolific author on a wide array of subjects, and you can see his work by searching him on Amazon.

1 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/01/26/the-dystopians
2 https://russia-insider.com/en/james-howard-kunstler
3 https://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Collapse-Experience-American-Prospects/dp/0865716854

​He has a large following on the web, and on Patreon, and we urge you to support him there [4], as Russia Insider does.

His current project is organizing the production of affordable house boats [5] for living on. He lives on a boat himself.

If you haven't discovered his work yet, please take a look at his archive of articles on RI [6]. They are a real treasure, full of invaluable insight into both the US and Russia and how they are related.

4 - https://www.patreon.com/orlov
5 - http://quidnon.blogspot.com 
6 - https://russia-insider.com/en/dmitry_orlov

​In trying to disentangle the current fraught state of relations between the US and Russia, one group that deserves a higher level of scrutiny is American Jews.

​This is the single largest population group that the two countries have in common: of the some 5 or 6 million Jews currently living in the US (numbers vary depending on how one measures “Jewishness”) around a million immigrated to the US from the Former Soviet Union, either directly or after a sojourn in Israel. The US government readily accepted all of them, granting them refugee status; thus, they entered American society with a politicized, distinctly anti-Russian identity, and their anti-Russian attitudes have had an effect on the opinions of many non-Russian Jews and other Americans.

​Russian Jews are by far the most educated group ever to immigrate to the US. They integrated very well into American society and many of them, and their children, were able to launch professional careers. Their firsthand experience of life in Russia has allowed them to position themselves as the subject matter experts on all things Russian and, to a considerable extent, has allowed this relatively small group to negatively affect the attitudes of the other 322 million Americans toward the 144 million Russians within the Russian Federation as well the 30 or so million Russians residing outside it.

It is an unfortunate accident of history that a group of around a million has, more or less inadvertently, soured relations between half a billion people.

​There are a lot of tricky bits and pieces to this story. Part of it is the Cold War legacy, which generated a great deal of institutional inertia within the US, which in turn causes the US to continue to treat Russia as the enemy. Part of it is the strangely disproportionate influence of Israeli Jews specifically, and of Jews in general, on US politics. Yet another piece of the puzzle has to do with the benefits that accrued to the Russian Jews in the US who talked up their having been victimized by the Soviet government or by Russian antisemitism. A final, particularly tricky aspect has to do with the nature of Jewish identity and how it has historically clashed, and continues to clash, with what it means to be a Russian Jew.

I will talk about each of these in turn, but first I want to disclose what it is that makes me qualified to write on this subject. I was born and grew up in Russia in the 60s and 70s, then emigrated as part of a wave of mainly Jewish emigration, entered the US as a refugee and was naturalized five years later. A fictional Israeli relative or two were featured in our application for the exit visa, although we had no intention of ever going to Israel.

​I have lots of Jewish relatives, but not enough to make me a Jew. We are all Russian Orthodox Christian, and have been for anywhere between 3 and 40 generations (depending on genealogical branch). At home we have never spoken anything but Russian. We went back to Russia at the earliest opportunity—in 1989, as soon as émigrés started being granted visas—and have been going back and forth ever since. All of this makes me an expert on this very subject.

A lot has already been written on the topic of American Cold War inertia, so I will sum it up in just a few of sentences. The US is being held hostage by a bloated, ineffectual and generally incompetent military bureaucracy whose only area of overwhelming superiority is in extorting exorbitant sums of money for its projects, many of which are failures. In order for this extortion to work, one must be able to argue that there is an enemy to defend the country against.

During the Cold War the enemy was, most conveniently, the USSR. After the USSR collapsed, there was a period of vacillation, during which “Russian mafia” got a lot of attention, just to keep the image of the enemy fresh. But a felicitous new opportunity presented itself after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 (which, many claim, were contrived for just this purpose) to present international terrorism as the new enemy. This ruse has by now outlived its usefulness because the terrorists are now doing better than ever, and so it is time to shut up about terrorism and to go back to Plan A: cultivating russophobia (with China now thrown in for good measure).

It is true that Russia, having recovered from the devastation of the Soviet collapse, is a bit more formidable as an enemy than it was in the “Russian mafia” days, but russophobia is still key, and it requires a steady stream of negative news stories and commentary on Russia. It is here Russian Jews, some living in the US, some traveling back and forth between the US and Russia, are happy to oblige, since they are, arguably, America’s subject matter experts on all things Russian.

The strangely disproportionate influence of Israeli Jews, and of Jews in general, on American politics is also a hot topic of discussion, and so here I will once again summarize briefly. First the obvious: Israel is not part of the United States; it is a separate sovereign nation and a UN member. And yet American politicians can pledge allegiance to Israel without being arrested and tried for treason. Lots of US-Israeli dual citizens circulate through both US and Israeli institutions, and nobody ever bothers to ask which one of them is spying on whose behalf. Within the US, Israel, and Jews generally, receive special treatment: anyone who dares to criticize Israel is more or less automatically accused of antisemitism and ostracized. Also, it has been made illegal to boycott Israeli products or companies, which some people want to do in support of the Palestinian cause. Some analysts go as far as to say that Israel has colonized the US, much as Britain had colonized India, with a few thousand British controlling the entire subcontinent to their own advantage.

​Israel is the recipient of many billions of dollars in US military aid, making it an integral part of the American military-industrial extortion racket. This means that Jews and/or Israelis in the US (the distinction between American Jews and Israelis is not a particularly useful one, since it’s easy for an American Jew to get an Israeli passport) have to talk up the “Russian threat” in order to belly up to the trough alongside the US military, and so they do.

But within Israel the situation is a bit different. About a third of the Jewish population of Israel is made up of Russian Jews. Many of them are actual citizens of the Russian Federation; most of the rest can claim Russian citizenship as a birthright. Lots of of them go back and forth between Russia and Israel, to work, for medical treatments, to visit relatives, on vacations, etc. A steady stream of Israelis is going back to Russia, mainly because Russia is in some ways more prosperous than Israel, where opportunities for social advancement are growing increasingly limited. Relations between Russia and Israel are very friendly and cooperative. When the Israeli defense minister flies to Moscow for talks, he doesn’t take a translator along because he is, in fact, Russian.

Right now relations between the US and Russia are in a dismal state. At the same time, relations between Russia and Israel are the warmest that they have ever been. “Russia and Israel can take pride in our high level of partnership, fruitful cooperation and far-reaching business contacts,” said Vladimir Putin while taking Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu to the Bolshoi Ballet. In spite of all of the complexities of the Middle East—the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the war in Syria, Iran’s growing influence, Turkey’s traditional treachery, strange goings on in Saudi Arabia—the Russian-Israeli relationship is just ticking along.

If you wanted to get just a tiny bit conspiratorial, you could perhaps imagine that Israel is Russia’s Trojan horse in the US. What is its purpose? To keep the US squandering borrowed money on military junk and misadventures, of course, until it’s all gone! To push the US toward the same cliff over which the USSR went back in 1990, obviously! But let us not get side-tracked into conspiracy theory and simply say that the asymmetry between US-Russian, US-Israeli and Israeli-Russian relations is extremely significant and begs for an explanation. It’s a three-legged stool that rocks—a geometric conundrum.

A relatively obvious reason for Israel cozying up to Russia is this: it is a US protectorate, but the US is becoming increasingly erratic, unreliable, militarily enfeebled and prone to catastrophic failure. Israel needs a new patron, and since Israel is a significant part of the mighty Russian diaspora (a third of Israelis are in fact Russians) reaching out to Russia is an obvious step. From their own perspective, the Russians sense that the the Israeli project may be temporary and may last only as long as American support for it.

Once it is over, Russians living in Israel would flood back into Russia. Such repatriation, if it becomes unavoidable, would need very tight coordination between Russian and Israeli authorities. Russia can probably absorb this influx without problems; after all, in recent years over a million Ukrainians, fleeing economic devastation and war at home, have successfully resettled in Russia. But the Russians may want to put Israel on life support instead, for the sake of preserving some semblance of regional stability.

The piece of the puzzle that has to do with the benefits that accrued to the Russian Jews in the US who talked up their having been victimized by the Soviet government or by Russian antisemitism is riddled with contradictions as well. Take on board the fact that Russian-speaking Jews are by far the most educated group ever to immigrate to the US. Also, Russia is one of the least antisemitic countries, with Jews well represented in every profession and at all levels of government, with Judaism flourishing and respected, and with no social problems specifically or disproportionately affecting Jews.

The reason Russian Jews were well-educated and ready to start prosperous careers more or less the moment they landed in the US was that they were extremely well-educated and prosperous before they left Russia. Much oppressed under the pre-revolutionary regime, Jews were instrumental during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and they and their children reaped tremendous benefits from their involvement in it during the subsequent decades. In fact, Jews did so well in the USSR that they crowded out Russians from many top jobs: although they made up just 1.5% of the population, by the 1950s over half of all directors at the many institutes, research centers and laboratories of the Soviet Academy of Sciences were Jewish. Jews made up a third of the Soviet Writers’ Union; a quarter of all university lecturers; and so on.

Members of my own family followed this trajectory. My grandfather grew up in a shtetl, spoke Yiddish with his mother, moved to St. Petersburg after the revolution, joined the Communist Party and eventually became a professor of Russian literature with a grand apartment on a city square and a country mansion. both stuffed with art and priceless antiques, a live-in housekeeper and nanny and a private limousine with a chauffeur. Jews like my grandfather dislodged the old aristocracy and became la crème de la crème of Soviet society.

Here is a fascinating bit of trivia: recognizing that Jews are a nation without a territory and wishing to fix this problem, the USSR became the only country in the world to freely offer Jews their own homeland—the Jewish Autonomous Region, strategically located on the Chinese border. Most of its Jewish residents have by now emigrated to Israel, leaving behind public buildings with plaques in two languages: Russian and Yiddish.

In time there started a bit of a backlash from all the Russians that the Jews had been squeezing out of the universities and the professions. Some of the tricks that were employed to fend off the relentless onslaught of their well-tutored children were, shall we say, less than kosher; for instance, a Jewish relative of mine wasn’t admitted to Moscow State University by being given a known unsolved problem to solve on the math entrance exam and—horror of horrors!—ended up becoming an architect instead. Many Jews saw in this backlash a sign of incipient antisemitism, and some of them decided that the pastures would be greener on the other side of the ocean.

From this it should be obvious why upon their arrival in the US Russian Jews would paint the USSR and Russia with a broad brush loaded with dark colors: oppression, antisemitism, pogroms, plus the general backwardness, drunkenness and awfulness. Had they resisted the urge to play the victim, their narrative might, by default, become something like this: “We wrecked Russia, rearranged it to our advantage, made out like bandits, pretty much bankrupted the place… and so now we are over here in the US, together with our prized possessions, elderly relatives and pets, claiming to be refugees, and are ready to do it again.” That just doesn’t sound sufficiently refugee-like, now, does it? Add to this the fact that there is considerable money to be made in the US by lambasting Russia, and the urge to lambaste becomes irresistible.

The final, particularly tricky aspect to this story has to do with the nature of Jewish identity and how it has historically clashed, and continues to clash, with what it means to be Russian. Jewish identity is rather strange and different, and to elucidate this point it is easier to compare Jews not to some garden variety group like the Irish or the Italians but to another similarly non-garden-variety group: the Gypsies. I have been acquainted with some Gypsies, and I have also researched them extensively for a case study on cultural collapse (and resistance thereto) in my book The Five Stages of Collapse.

The word “gypsy” is a corruption of “Egyptian,” which the Gypsies definitely are not, having come out of Northern India at some point in time well over a thousand years ago. (Incidentally, it is the Jews, according to their biblical mythology, who came out of Egypt via a magic hole in the Red Sea, so perhaps it is the Jews who should be called “Gypsies.”) What the Gypsies in fact are, and what they call themselves, is Roma, and their language is Romani.

The Roma share a great number of similarities with the Jews. Both are diaspora nations without a territory (excepting the rather small internationally recognized Israeli bits of Palestine); instead, they colonize various countries, migrating from country to country over time. Both Jews and Roma are traditionally xenophobic: the Jewish word for “non-Jewish” is “goy” (plural “goyim”). In Romani, it is “gadjo” (plural “gadje”). Both Jews and Roma have specific, and rather curious, taboos and purification rituals as ways of resisting contamination or corruption spread by outsiders, most of which is symbolic rather than physical.

And both were victims of the Holocaust: a quarter of Europe’s Roma population was wiped out in that event, but with a difference: while the Jews received restitution for the Nazi atrocities, the Roma did not. Only in 1979 did the West German Bundestag acknowledge the fact that Nazi persecution of Roma was racist, making them eligible to receive compensation, but by then most of the victims had already died.

Both Roma and Jewish identities are to some extent secret. The Roma usually disguise themselves by taking on local-sounding names; in Anglo countries they go by generic-sounding English names like Bob Jones or Cathy Smith; in private, they call each other exotic, Roma-sounding names like Ruslan or Zemfira. And then each Roma has a secret name known only to that person and that person’s mother.

At various times Jews have likewise found it advantageous to obscure their identities behind local-sounding names. My other grandfather is a case in point. He was born in Zhitomir, in the Ukraine. When, around the time of the Russian Revolution, his parents and sisters decamped for Brooklyn, leaving him behind, he saw it fit to change his name to the very generically Russian Alexander Orlov and led everyone to believe that he was an orphaned Russian. He lived a good long life, first in Kiev, then in Leningrad, under an assumed identity, but some time after he retired he suddenly shocked his children with the news that he was in fact Jewish, that his name was not Alexander but Abraham, and that he is moving to Israel where it’s warmer and sunnier.

He eventually met up with one of his sisters, but the other was by then shunned by the whole family, having become a Jehova’s Witness. Not that the remaining sister or her family were the least bit religious; at one time, they attempted a Passover ritual, for our benefit, I suppose, and it was such a travesty that it made me cry. (I was young and impressionable back then; now I would probably just laugh.)

Both Roma and Jewish identities are matrilineal: one cannot be a Roma, or a Jew, unless one’s mother is a Roma, or a Jew, respectively. This works to their advantage within the societies they colonize, which are all patrilineal. The rate of intermarriage is much greater in the case of Jews; the Roma do not seem to intermarry all that much because of their very negative attitude toward the “gadje.” The considerable extent of Jewish intermarriage is obvious from their appearance: the Roma often look quite North Indian, while European (Ashkenazi) Jews look European rather than like the Arabs and other Middle Eastern tribes. They are not exactly a race or an ethnic group; half of the X (female) chromosomes may be of a Jewish origin, but the Y (male) chromosomes may have been, more often than not, borrowed from some other group. Since the Y chromosome is an evolutionary hotbed, such genetic borrowing confers a considerable advantage as far as inclusive fitness.

Thus, in mixed marriages, Jewish women function a bit like cuckoo birds, which lay their eggs in other birds’ nests, forcing other birds to rear cuckoo chicks alongside theirs. The “shiketz” (a “goy” husband) may think that his children add to the numbers of his own tribe, but is sadly mistaken. Jewish women can help colonize societies by marrying local men and having them bring up Jews (in secret if necessary) at their own expense. This salient detail wasn’t lost on everyone; in particular the Cossacks, who patrolled the margins of the Russian Empire and were fond of bride-snatching Persian, Turkish and Caucasian women, then baptizing and Russianizing them, would have nothing to do with Jewish women. On the other hand, until quite recently bringing home a “shiksa” (a “goy” female) was very much disapproved of in Jewish families, because children from such a union could not be counted as Jews.

If Jews are not a race or an ethnic group, are they are religion? Notably, there is no freedom of religion among Jews: according to most Jews, one cannot be a Moslem Jew or a Christian Jew and still be a Jew. But over half of the Jews in both the US and Israel are atheist, and there are far more Atheists among American Jews than among the general population. One ritual—bris (circumcision) is generally required as a condition for social inclusion, but it does not carry much religious significance in a society that (somewhat inexplicably) tries to circumcise all of the male infants regardless of their parents’ religion.

If Jews are neither a race/ethnicity nor a religion, then what are they? By process of elimination, they are the same as the Roma: a nomadic caste. Many of the elements that signal caste membership are the same: the xenophobia inherent in terms such as “goy”/“gadjo”; the insistence on matrilineality even within generally patrilineal societies; the tendency to cultivate a secret identity; and the tendency to move on and colonize new countries as conditions warrant.

Jews can function as a nomadic caste in the US, which is full of transience and of clannish, cultish, class-based social divisions, of segregation by race, income and religion and of many other castelike social distinctions. They could function as a caste in pre-revolutionary Russia as well—admitted and tolerated but kept apart because they would not praise the Holy Trinity and venerate the Holy Cross in a country where Orthodox Christianity was a precondition for full citizenship. But post-revolutionary Russia is not so conducive to preserving the Jewish caste.

First, a Russian has the right to pick the nationality of either parent (the Russian Federation is made up of 160 nationalities, each with its own language), the default one—Russian—or to not declare one at all. Religious or secular laws that interfere with this freedom of choice infringe on this right. Second, a Russian has the right to practice any religion, independent of the choice of nationality. Thus, religious or other laws that tie one’s religion to one’s nationality infringe on this right. Third, it is generally accepted that the Russian identity suffuses all the others. There is a linguistic distinction between “Rossiysky” (pertaining to the country) and “Russky” (pertaining to the nationality) but in practice they are used interchangeably. Thus, a Russian Jew is a Russian first (linguistically, culturally, socially, possibly religiously) and a Jew second. Being Jewish is like holding a rose between your teeth: an interesting, idiosyncratic fashion accessory.

If you think that these are small details, you should see the hysterical, xenophobic reactions I can provoke more or less at will in almost any group of Jews simply by saying that I am Jewish by dint of having two Jewish grandfathers. Sure, my mother is Russian, but I am a Russian Jew, and in Russia nationality can pass from father to son, and usually does. Oh, and by the way I am a Christian, so Jewish laws don’t apply to me.

The cognitive dissonance of being brought face to face with the fact that Jews are a caste must be most painful to its members. So, fine, I am not a Jew; nor do I have a rose in my teeth. In fact, it is disingenuous of me to flippantly provoke Jews by saying that I might be Jewish, because I don’t feel even the tiniest bit Jewish and I am perfectly at peace with just being Russian.

The point of all this is that for all of the above-stated reasons you should never, ever again listen to what American Jews have to say about Russia. All they have to deliver in that department is damaged, tainted goods. It is absolutely essential for the safety and security of the entire planet that the US and Russia maintain good, cooperative, professional, friendly relations based on up-to-date facts rather than falsehoods, bigotry, innuendos or outdated tales of woe. It is incredibly self-destructive to use the lies being spread about Russia as an excuse to continue feeding the US/Israeli military monster.

If Americans are in need of a perfectly good example of how to have good relations with Russia, here it is: it’s called Israel.

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Following his cautionary analysis on the increasing tension between the US/NATO and Russia, Chris interview Dmitry Orlov this week about the potential likelihood for actual direct conflict to break out between the world powers.

Orlov was born and raised in Leningrad in the former Soviet Union and immigrated to the United States in the mid 70s, He has spent the past several decades traveling back and forth between the two countries, writing about the collapse of the Soviet Union and the many similarities he sees between that and the secular decline happening in the West. Orlov recently co-authored a stark warning with a number of other experts on Russia, concerned that the US is recklessly provoking a military confrontation it cannot win:

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Dear All:
 
Many thanks to Dr. Krasnov for his latest ‘Antidote’ posting. Most of us likely agree that there is no more important and pressing an issue in our times than the damage being done to all humanity by the collective actions of the relatively small tribe of Jewish people. Dr. Krasnov is entirely correct to point out that we must destroy the bizarre “taboo” that Jews have successfully created that forbids us to talk about, or even mention, what we all clearly see that Jewish people do.
 
We all surely know that highly organized Jews are even now engaged in a highly focused effort to have laws passed by the US Congress that will declare that all criticism of the nation of Israel is anti-Semitism. Expressing anti-Semitism is already, by law, categorized as “hate speech”, and is therefore already illegal.
 
Powerfully organized Jews are engaged, right now, in trying to get laws passed to enjoin American citizens from exercising our most basic of all democratic rights, our freedom of speech itself. Jews want to make it illegal for American citizens to criticize the nation of Israel. Despite the fact that we can all see that Israel maintains a cruel regime of brutal martial law over millions of people, right our in broad daylight, organized Jewish people want to make it illegal for American citizens to criticize Israel, at all, for anything. Highly organized Jews are using all their power to try to force American citizens to sacrifice our most precious and valuable of our freedoms, our freedom of speech, in order to benefit the tiny foreign country of Israel.
 
This is no joke, folks…..This is actually happening…Now….  
 
"The Devil's cleverest trick was to convince people that he does not exist"...Charles Baudelaire, 19th century French Poet.
 
Jewish people (many, but not all) openly boast among themselves about doing things that are forbidden for other people to even mention, (lest they be condemned for anti-Semitism). Further…Jewish people (again, many, but not all) openly congratulate themselves and each other for their cunning at having successfully made it forbidden for anyone else to point out that their self-serving cunning even exists.  
 
By all logic and reason it is not anti-Semitic to make accurate observations about the characteristics and actions of a self-defined and self-identified group of people, a 'tribe', who hold to an insular and exclusionary belief system, which holds that they are morally superior to others, and are thus God's favorite people. When these Jewish people act in unison to achieve specific ends to favor their own interests, at the great expense of all other people, (which their belief system defines as inferior, and therefore excludes), it is not anti-Semitic to observe and talk about the things they do.
 
We don’t have a word (do we?) to describe Jewish people’s own highly prejudicial belief system, which holds that Jewish people are morally superior to all other people, and therefore are God’s “chosen people”. Racist? Well…That word doesn’t quite fit, since Jews do not really comprise a ‘race’, per se. But it’s probably the best word we have. The Jewish tribal belief system is ‘racist’, in that it holds that all other people are inferior to the Jewish ‘race’.
 
Anti-Semitism is a form of prejudice, (similar to racism). It is anti-Semitic is to make judgments concerning individual Jewish people before we know anything about them as individuals, based merely on the fact that they are Jewish. Judging people as individuals, without knowing anything about them as individuals, (pre-judging them), simply on the basis of their ethnic heritage, is (obviously) prejudice. It is a form of bigotry. It is morally reprehensible.
 
Many people of Jewish ethnic heritage are as horrified by the self-serving beliefs and collective activities of the Jewish 'tribe', (a term Jews themselves like to use to refer to themselves), as anyone else. We must not pre-judge any individual person for their ethnic or racial heritage.
 
But we have EVERY right to make accurate observations about the collective behavior of a self-defined and self-identified group of people (a tribe) who act in unison to benefit themselves at other people’s expense.
 
Jewish people, as a self-defined and insular tribe, have been universally disliked by all the people they have lived among, throughout history, over thousands of years. Incredibly, (but all too true), the Jewish tribe believes that the causative fault in other people's dislike of them lies in those people, whom Jews have, also throughout all history, considered as inferior to them.
 
We are called upon to presume that it has never occurred to Jews, (as a self-defined insular tribe), that it is their own belief system, their own belief in their superiority to others, their own regard of themselves as God's favorite people, that has made them so universally odious to others. They rather want to force us, through their highly organized power, to consider Jewish people as the poor innocent ‘victims’ of non-Jewish people’s depravity, because diverse groups of non-Jewish people, over thousands of years, have not acceded to Jewish people’s promulgation of their own moral superiority, but rather have resented Jewish cultural declaration of the moral superiority of Jews, and their outrageous claim to God’s favor over all other people.    
 
I personally believe that there is much to admire in Jewish culture, and I personally am disposed to like Jewish people, as individuals. I am NOT anti-Semitic. It is the self-serving cultural beliefs of the Jewish tribe, as a collective, and the collective actions these people take to serve their own tribal interests, at the great expense of others, that I, like so many other people over all these dusty millennia, find to be odious.
 
Any group of people who would hold that “God loves people in our group more than anyone else” would surely be as universally derided and hated as Jewish people have in fact been for so long by so many.
 
When Osama bin Laden published a list of grievances after the 9/11 attacks, the cruel treatment of Muslim people by Jewish people, as enabled by the US, was at the top of the list. There are only about 14 million Jewish people in the entire world, which is less than two tenths of one percent of the total human population, but a major portion of the deadly strife in our modern world, including the deaths of very large numbers of people, has been caused by the actions of this one relatively small tribe. These people sincerely and passionately believe, collectively, that they are more important than all the rest of humanity combined. A significantly large percentage, (though not all), of this relatively small tribe of people believe that they are more important than all the teeming billions of us who are not Jewish.
 
Many Israeli Jews gloat in Israel’s possession of nuclear weapons, and have sworn a blood oath that if Jews do not prevail in their determination to dominate the entire Middle East, they will take the whole of all humanity down with them. If Jews do not prevail, they swear, in blood, that they will destroy all of humanity to wreak their vengeance.
 
Even as we observe these things, however, we MUST resist the temptation to denounce all Jewish people. We must NOT allow ourselves to become anti-Semitic.
 
Even as we can make accurate judgments about the odious beliefs and actions of this insular tribal group, we MUST remember that a significant percentage of Jewish people consider the Jewish tribe’s self-serving and self-aggrandizing collective belief system, and the collective actions of Jews that derive from that belief system, to be as odious as we do, or anyone else does.
 
We must encounter individual Jewish people without prejudice. We must NOT be anti-Semitic.
 
Attached below is an essay I wrote a couple of years or so ago. It is in the ‘open letter’ format, addressed to Jewish people, in general. I did, in fact, send it to as many Jewish people as I could, and I posted it in places, such as ‘The Jewish Daily Forward’, where I hoped Jewish people could and would read it. This ‘open letter’ was circulated by others, as well, so people here may have already encountered it.
 
Among the things I discuss in this essay is Jewish control of our mass media, which Dr. Krasnov also discusses in his ‘Antidote’ mailing.
 
Anyone is welcome to post any part of this mailing anywhere they think might be useful.
 
Best to all,
 
R Zwarich
Bent Birch Farm
63 Webber Rd.
Brookfield, MA 01506
774 449-8030

RAGA abhors all taboos on free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment and therefore welcomes polyphony of different views on the raised issues, preferably, via a friendly dialogue without personal abuse or insults. We shall not censor anyone.       - RAGA Team 

Dear friends of the Russia & America Good Will Association and antiwar colleagues!

Many things happened since the last RAGA Antidote 40 newsletter of December 2017. Christmas and New Year holidays last longer in Russia because the Russians tend to celebrate both twice, first according the Gregorian calendar, like us, then Julian which the Russian Orthodox Christians, whose numbers have been swelling since 1991, follow. The government too provides for more Winter days-off.

Well, let's plunge into the Year of the Yellow Dog by following what president Vladimir Putin did on the day of Epiphany" Thursday January 18:

Vladimir Putin Plunges in Frozen Lake to Mark Orthodox Christian Epiphany Ritual (VIDEO)
http://www.raga.org/news/vladimir-putin-plunges-in-frozen-lake-to-mark-orthodox-christian-epiphany-ritual-video​

​https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-epiphany-putin/russias-putin-takes-dip-in-icy-lake-to-mark-orthodox-epiphany-idUSKBN1F80J0 

Vladimir Putin’s ice bath ritual perplexes American journalists.Example of reinforced ignorance about Russian leader’s Christian faith shows how disconnected American press is from reality. President Vladimir Putin marked the celebration of Theophany (sometimes called “Epiphany” in the West) in the usual way – by immersing himself in freezing cold water in Lake Seliger at a monastery near Tver, some 200 miles north of Moscow.

http://russiafeed.com/vladimir-putins-ice-bath-ritual-perplexes-american-journalists/

Now, having cooled off, prepare for the really hot bath provided by Charles Bausman, the founder and editor of Russia Insider whom many Russia watchers have appreciated for its efforts to explain Russia and diffuse US-Russia tensions in a quest for global peace. I briefly met Charles in September 2014 at Ed Lozansky's Moscow forum when he announced this venture in public diplomacy. Soon Russia Insider went online. On January 16, RI surprised many readers, including myself, by publishing 

It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo
It's making serious discussion of Russian geopolitics and history next to impossible. Most people know about, but few are willing to condemn, the strict taboo in the media, of criticizing Jews as a group, using that term. One cannot even criticize a small subsection of Jews, a miniscule percentage of the Jewish population, even when they richly deserve it.

http://russia-insider.com/en/its-time-drop-jew-taboo/ri22186

Bausman's initiative is both bold and controversial, so much so that I quickly posted my Russian translation on both Perevodika.ru and the RAGA site where it could be switched between English and Russian. http://www.raga.org/news/drop-the-jew-taboo

Why court possible hostility from the Jews?
Well, many Jews, at least, since Karl Marx's 1844 article "On The Jewish Question" ( https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question ) have been aware of, and deeply deplored, the tendency of their kin to be attracted to shady financial dealings. Of course, Marx's article was unavailable in the country built in his name. In fact, I had to escape from the USSR in order to be able to read freely not just him, but foreign and Russian religious philosophers whose books were expelled from the country of their origin. One might even say that Marx preceded Bausman in lifting the taboo. I believe that lifting the taboo on naming Jews involved in finance and, especially, in MSM anti-Russian hysteria would be healthy for both Russia and the USA, for both Jews ( remember how the banker Bernie Madoff robbed everyone, even Jewish charities! 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2008/dec/23/bernard-madoff-jewish-charities ) and Gentiles alike. After all, Bausman proposes to call spade a spade, nothing more or less.

In fact, in my 2016 Open 2016 Letter to Obama I demanded something similar:
2. Start the legislative process for breaking up the corporate media conglomerates and, at least, make the current anti-monopoly laws stick in pursuit of the violators. Brother Nathanael Kapрner, a New York Jew who converted to Russian Christianity, goes as far as to propose nationalization of the media.  In the very least, a national debate on media abuses is in order. http://www.raga.org/news/to-mr-barack-obama-potus

I still wonder why President Trump did not pick up on my proposal to regulate the mega-media which have been overwhelmimngly against him--and Russia--both before and after his election?

Bausman is right in calling for more research on the issue. However, in as far as he links negative consequences of the taboo now in the USA with those of the Bolshevik take-over of Russia 100 years ago, his failure to take into account the research done by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his book "The Crucifixion of Russia" https://www.amazon.com/Crucifixion-Russia-Russians-translation-Solzhenitsyns/dp/1548660272 (See also RAGA Antidote 39) is surprising. One reason may be that search engines fail to pick the above translation and respond instead to the more natural request-- Solzhenitsyn, Two Hundred Years Together--that shows only Russian original. Recently, Jan Peczkis posted a good summary of the book on https://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2J4T28VQDUMLZ?ref_=glimp_1rv_cl

In Solzhenitsyn's footsteps, RAGA favors polyphony or, at least, a dialog of opinions on any issue, no matter how controversial. This is not the place for discussions. Just a few responses from people whom I highly respect.


One is from Gilbert Doctorow, a Russia Ph.D. scholar, peace activist, and RAGA contributor fluent in Russian.

Doctorow: Letter to the Editor: the Jewish Question and Russia-Bashing in the West
russia-insider.com/en/letter-editor-jewish-question-and-russia-bashing.../ri22218
In “It’s Time to Drop the Jew Taboo,” you have chosen your words very carefully so as to avoid giving unnecessary offense to anyone.  And, you are right, the subject you have placed on the table merits open discussion which it has not received....I mention this only to make the point that counting noses is a tricky game and quickly degenerates into racial slurs which have no foundation in fact.  

 However, for the sake of argument I will concede to you the point that Jewish controlled media have been a big factor in the hate-Russia mania that sweeps America today...
http://russia-insider.com/en/letter-editor-jewish-question-and-russia-bashing-west/ri22218

Another is Henry Makow, an independent-minded and erudite Jew 

Taboo Against Anti-Semitism Must be Lifted - henrymakow.com

Makow - Jews and Freemasons are the vehicles through which the central bank cartel extends its monopoly over government credit to a monopoly over everything, i.e. business, government, media and thought. As Bausman suggests this monopoly largely has been achieved in the West.Does Russia pose a real obstacle to its imposition worldwide, or is Western antipathy to Russia part of a charade to foment war?
https://www.henrymakow.com/2018/01/taboo-against-anti-semitism.html

Then there is Anatoly Karlin, a transplant from the USSR who is equally well versed in USA and Russia. An independent thinker, Karlin is insightful contributor to The UnzReview which Cathy Young, a Jewish immigrant from the USSR, denounces as a “mix of far-right and far-left anti-Semitic crackpottery” in spite of the fact that it is run by a Jew and has several Jewish contributors, such as Israel Shamir. Karlin writes: Charles Bausman’s thesis is of course a controversial one, and I don’t agree with some things at both the macro level – high Jewish verbal IQ partially, though not fully, explains the overrepresentation of Jews amongst elite Russophobes – as well as some of the historical details at the micro level. However, he is correct at a broad level. http://www.unz.com/akarlin/russia-insider-names-the-jew/

I noticed the Jew Taboo article at once because it started with the painting of famed Russian painter Ilya Glazunov, A Jewish Bolshevik shutting down an Easter midnightservice. Just last Summer I wrote an obituary for Glazunov (in Russian) who passed away on July 9, 2017. I first met him in 1957 in dissident circles of Moscow State University when the young painter's exploration of Russian history, literature and religion made him L'Enfant terrible of the Party's stalwarts and a hero among postwar generation of students fed up with the dead-end of "internationalist" but soul-less and rootless ideology. After defecting to the West, I looked with the hope at the beginnings of what is now called identitarian movement that was growing inside the USSR among ethnic groups.

I wrote several articles on the rebirth of Russian "nationalism" (a benign form of it, more like a revival of Russian cultural and religious identity) as an alternative to the totalitarian Marxist-Leninist ideology. 

One of them was my 1979 article Wladislaw G.Krasnow, Richard Pipes's Foreign Strategy: Anti-Soviet or Anti-Russian?  I argued that advice given to US government by Professor Pipes was wrong because he distrusted Soviet leaders because of their "deceitful and boorish Russian peasant origin" (Isn't it Jewish professor's ethnic bias?) and totally ignored their Marxist-Leninist ideology. I am proud to say that Solzhenitsyn, with whom I corresponded, liked my article.


Another article was published in 1985 by Hokkaido University in Sapporo, JAPAN: Ilya Glazunov's Russian Nationalism: Notes from Two Exhibits, now accessible on RAGA site. After two huge exhibits of Glazunov's paintings in 1978 (Moscow) and Leningrad (1979), foreign observers began to worry about the rise of Russian nationalism.
(CRAIG WHITNEY, JUNE 18, 1978. Unbridled Artist Proving Popular At Soviet Show,
http://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/18/archives/unbridled-artist-proving-popular-at-soviet-show-crowds-around.html)

Fortunately, two books of thousands hand-written viewers comments were secretly copied and smuggled to the West. I analyze them statistically as a sort of opinion poll. My 1985 conclusion was:  <<...unlike the official Soviet anti-Semitism which is chiefly focused on the Jewish religion, Zionism, and the state of Israel, the comment books give vent only to (a) variety of judophobia which seems to be chiefly concerned with the role of the Jews in the October Revolution and in the establishing of the "internationalist" Soviet state. ...that has been hostile not only to Russian nationalism but to Jewish and any other nationalism as well. Although some Soviet Jews apparently feel that the rise of ethnic Russian nationalism a la Glazunov may threaten their well-being in the USSR, many more realize that his art undermines the official ideology which shackles all peoples of the USSR, including the Jews.>>
http://www.raga.org/news/hokkaido-university-1985-ilia-glazunovs-russian-nationalism-vladislav-kransov

I followed up with a book, Russia Beyond Communism: A Chronicle of National Rebirth  (https://www.amazon.com/Russia-Beyond-Communism-Chronicle-Contemporary/dp/0813383617), where I collected a veritable polyphonic choir of "voices of glasnost", from a broad spectrum of Soviet authors, left and right, Party and no party, who wanted to go beyond Gorbachev's "reformed Communism" which the West then eagerly supported. Written in late 1980s, the book was published in Colorado in 1991, just in time for me to pick a fresh copy and present it to Boris Yeltsin who, just in time, suppressed a Communist coup and hoisted Russian national tricolor instead of the Red flag of Communism. There were in the book few lines (p. 256) devoted to Glazunov too.

Well, so much for the conjuncture with Glazunov that Bausman so vividly displayed in his spectacular article.Let us not forget that, as Bausman argues, the existence of the Jew Taboo is not only bad for US-Russia relations, but makes a nuclear war and possible annihilation of life on earth much more likely. RAGA does not want to promote a panicky fear, but we do take seriously the well founded warnings, such as the recent one issued by Sharon Tennison, a tireless peace-maker since the time of the Old (less scary) Cold War.

From Sharon Tennison
     You have probably seen last week's announcement from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about preparing Americans for a nuclear detonation somewhere here in the U.S.  If a nuclear detonation ever happens here in the U.S., it will bring about a rapid return of numerous nuclear weapons toward the sender and likely a volley back and forth.  Are we this close to an all-out nuclear exchange and no one is pursuing serious diplomacy?  Are we American citizens perturbed … or are we just moving forward unconsciously like lemmings to the sea?
     I suggest we call or write our newspapers, public officials, congress members, and everyone on our e-lists––and say, NO! We need to pursue a radical course of diplomacy, a total reevaluation of the US-North Korea history in order to learn why they are so defensive and paranoid.
    Please educate yourself with this 9-minute TED X Talk. It is a very topical subject these days since our CDC will soon be sharing information with the public about how Americans can survive a nuclear blast. Physicists and physicians tell us a different story. Dr. Ira Helfand does a magnificent job of describing the reality of nuclear weapons in the following video:

Sharon is not the only one who takes the growing threat of nuclear annihilation very seriously. 

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
Warmongers pushing the US toward global Armageddon with Russia 
http://russiafeed.com/warmongers-pushing-us-toward-global-armageddon-russia/

While Reagan and Gorbachev understood the danger of the nuclear threat, present US policy makers do not.
 – The US military/security complex has taken another step toward Armageddon. The Pentagon has prepared a nuclear posture review (NPR) that gives the OK to development of smaller “usable” nuclear weapons and permits their use in response to a non-nuclear attack....  Some scientists have concluded that even the use of 10 percent of either the US or Russian arsenal would suffice to destroy life on earth.
...Those such as myself and Stephen Cohen, who point out that Washington’s reckless and irresponsible behavior has created an enemy out of a country that very much wanted to be friends, do not get much attention from the presstitute media. The US military/security complex needs an enemy sufficient to justify its vast budget and power, and the Western media has accommodated that selfish and dangerous need. http://russiafeed.com/warmongers-pushing-us-toward-global-armageddon-russia/

Trump’s Plan Makes Nuclear War More Likely
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, January 12, 2018
CONTACT: Brett Abrams | 516-841-1105 | brett@unbendablemedia.com
     Last night, The Huffington Post released a pre-decisional draft of the Trump administration’s Nuclear Posture Review. The document outlined a strategy that includes the development of new, so-called “low-yield” nuclear weapons — expanding the number of scenarios in which the first use of nuclear weapons would be considered, including in response to non-nuclear attack...In reaction to the leaked document, Derek Johnson, executive director of Global Zero, the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons, issued the following statement:
     “This leaked draft of the NPR is a radical document and terrifying in almost every respect. Trump’s plan to develop so-called ‘low-yield’ nuclear weapons and loosen restrictions on their use is a dramatic departure from long-standing U.S. policy that makes nuclear war more likely. The world is about to get a whole lot more dangerous...."
www.defenddemocracy.press/trumps-plan-makes-nuclear-war-more-likely/

Isn't Russia one country against which we prepare a terrible nuclear vengeance? Who are they? Take a look: Christ’s birth celebrated in Russia and across the Orthodox world. Midnight liturgy was held through Russia and several other Orthodox countries to mark Christmas according to the Julian calendar
http://russiafeed.com/christs-birth-celebrated-in-russia-and-across-the-orthodox-world/


For a deeper insight in Russia's spirituality I recommend again Gilbert Doctorow Jan 8, 2018. The New Russian 'Messianism' - Christmas Interview With Head of Russian Church
Another remarkable interview between Kiselyov and the head of the Russian church, Kirill. He explains that Russia must make Christian morality the guiding star of its foreign policy — only then will it maintain its appeal to people around the world.
http://russia-insider.com/en/new-russian-messianism-christmas-interview-head-russian-church/ri22113

Last November Russians marked the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik coup in Petrograd which effectively put them in charge of the whole county. So what did the Bolshevik leaders--Lenin, Trotsky, Sverdlov, Uritsky and several other Jews--do with the newly won power? In January 1918 they forcibly dissolved the Constitudent Assembly called into existence by the manifest of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov, Tsar Nikolai's younger brother in whose favor he abdicated. Not wishing to cause a bloodshed by suppressing a soldiers mutiny in Petrograd, Mikhail suggested a compromise: let people decide on the future form of government in a free election by universal ballot. Having taken power, the Bolsheviks did not cancel the election hoping to get a majority of the delegates. But as soon as they found out that they garnered fewer than 25% of the vote, they dissolved the Assembly by force thus started the civil war which took more Russian lives than World War One. 

I have been promoting the memory of Mikhail Romanov as the author of Constituent Assembley, tsar-democrat and peacemaker. Tragically, Mikhail and his secretary Johnson were murdered by the Bolsheviks in my native city of Perm on June 12, 1918, five weeks prior to the Yekaterinburg massacre of former Tsar Nikolai II and his family. Here is one of my several Russian language articles translated into English. W. George Krasnow, Last Russian Tsar Was Michael, Not Nicholas. It was published by The Moscow Times in 2013 (https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/last-russian-tsar-was-michael-not-nicholas-25693)


You could read a lot more in the well-researched and perceptive book book by my dear British friend Donald Crawford's  The Last Tsar: Emperor Michael II. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Tsar-Emperor-Michael-II/dp/1466445009. To save your time and money I recommend you read first an excellent review of Crawford's book by David Roulston, a member of the Oxford-Perm Sister Cities Association's  January 2013 newsletter:
http://www.oxfordperm-assoc.org/members-only/news-Jan13.pdf  

Anatoly Karlin offers a fresh and sobering assessment of how the Bolsheviks established the totalitarian dictatorship in Russia against the will of majority

http://www.unz.com/akarlin/centenary-of-the-bolshevik-usurpation/
Centenary of the Bolshevik Usurpation

ANATOLY KARLIN • JANUARY 20, 2018 
Contrary to both Communist and Western Russophobe propaganda, Russians never voted in the Bolsheviks, let alone gave them license to usurp absolute power and launch a civil war.

Who did vote for the Bolsheviks? The Latvians and Estonians of the Governorate of Livonia gave them 72% of the vote, the highest of any region in the Russian Empire. Read more for more surprises!

http://www.unz.com/akarlin/centenary-of-the-bolshevik-usurpation/

Let me just ad Ed Lozansky's excellent suggestion re Ukraine
"The solution for Ukraine is clear. It has been on the table since 2014, in variations put forward by Henry Kissinger among others. No NATO membership. Neutrality. Regional decentralization, perhaps federalization. Official status for the Russian language. That won’t return Crimea to Ukraine but it could perhaps reintegrate the Donbass, which Russia has pointedly declined to absorb, despite locals’ requests and Kiev’s refusal to implement self-rule under the moribund Minsk 2 agreement." 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/25/poor-state-us-russia-relations-does-not-serve-amer/

As always, a view of Russian civilization
THE RYAZAN KREMLIN by Willian Brumfield
https://www.rbth.com/travel/327249-russian-incredible-ryazan-kremlin

Sincerely,

W George Krasnow 
President, RAGA
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[ http://russia-insider.com/en/its-time-drop-jew-taboo/ri22186 ]   

Russia Insider published a long profile of him and his work in 2016. Much of his work, both paintings and books, dealt extensively with the Jewish role in Russian history.

​1. Introduction

Most people know about, but few are willing to condemn, the strict taboo in the media, of criticizing Jews as a group, using that term. One cannot even criticize a small subsection of Jews, a miniscule percentage of the Jewish population, even when they richly deserve it.

Obviously, this is a ridiculous way to run a publication whose object is to get to the truth, so I am writing this to explain why, from now on, the pages of Russia Insider will be open to articles which fairly and honestly address the influence of Jewish elites, including pointing out when it is malevolent, which it often is, and try to understand it and explain it, with malice towards none.

I have become convinced that unless we break this taboo, nothing will improve in the human catastrophe unfolding in geopolitics. Millions have died over the past 30 years, and if we want it to stop that trend and avoid a cataclysm which seems to be approaching inexorably, we have to have the freedom to criticize those responsible. It is very clear to me, as it is to many others, that much of the guilt for this comes from Jewish pressure groups, particularly in the media.

I can see as an editor, that much of what is written about geopolitics in the ‘public square,’ admirable though it may be in other respects, makes itself irrelevant by tiptoeing around this crucial issue.

I am a newcomer to the media world, unexpectedly thrust three years ago into the role of owner, publisher and editor of this fairly widely-read publication. We get about 10 million visits per month across all of our platforms from a sophisticated audience, and we are widely followed by so-called 'influencers.' We've made a big mark in a short time, and we did it by saying what others were not willing to say. Many subjects which we were the first to speak about on a major platform have now entered the mainstream.

Russia Insider is a grassroots phenomenon, and sometimes resembles a political movement as much as it does a publication. We exist solely because of small donations from readers. We get no funding from major donors, not to mention governments, foundations, or other organized groups. It is all private individuals. Our single largest donation over the past year was $5000, and the median gift is $30. We raised about $80,000 last year. This gives us the freedom to pretty much say what we want, something that can be said of very few publications, even in the alternative media space, most of whom are beholden to large donors.

I see every day how one can influence the public agenda by addressing or ignoring certain topics. One really can make a difference, and I have tried to have a positive impact, as I understand it. It has been a remarkable education in the power of the media, even of our relatively small Russia Insider.

But this taboo is the great exception. It really is quite extraordinary to realize that you can publish about just about anything, except that. As I said, just about everyone knows about the taboo, and I did too in my previous career in business, but it is another thing altogether to enforce it — which I felt, until recently, compelled to do — and to have your nose rubbed in it every day when trying to make sense of world events.

2. The euphemisms

Some try to skirt the taboo with euphemisms. A veritable cottage industry has emerged, ever inventing new ones. Indeed, this is the new trend in the alt-media. We hear a lot about 'Zionists,' 'elites,' 'global elites,' 'globalists,' 'neocons,' 'liberal interventionists,' 'the war party,' 'the Israel lobby,' 'the deep state,' 'bankers,' 'new world order' (I've never understood what that is, actually), 'Bilderbergers' — sounds like a nice man from a central-European fairytale. My friend the Saker goes with 'Anglozionists.'

But none of these terms work, do they? They all obscure the issue, actually enhancing the taboo’s inherent deceit.

Zionists? Really? I've never heard anyone describe themselves this way, or even other people describe them - 'Have you meet Max?, he's an enthusiastic Zionist!' I've never seen it mentioned as an interest in a social media profile (perhaps Facebook should include it as an Emoticon). Maybe Rachel Maddow IS a Zionist, what do I know, although as far as I understand, Zionism was a political movement that lost its urgency once the state of Israel was well on its merry way. Elites? Well, no, I would reckon many Jews are elites, but more Jews are not, and more elites are non-Jews, so no, that doesn't work. Well, you get the idea. These are attempts to slip past the ever-zealous censor, and they serve to maintain the confusion and deception.

No, the only trait that these people have in common is their Jewish heritage. Some are liberals, some are conservatives. Some are religious, some are not. Some are mixed Jewish heritage, some are not. Some care about Israel, some do not. Some support Israel others criticize her. They are politicians, journalists, academics, comedians, actors, or, businessmen. Some stem from Western Europe, others from Eastern Europe, and others from the Middle East.

3. Hostility to Putin's Russia is largely
a Jewish phenomenon

Russia Insider's mission is to explain and describe Russia and her role in the world. As soon as you begin to drill into how other nations relate to Russia, and Russian history, it becomes obvious that the unreasonable hostility towards Putin's Russia, particularly coming from the US and the UK, is very much a Jewish phenomenon, and has been for centuries.

And yes, 'Jewish' is the only term that accurately describes it, and not one of the many euphemisms we frequently see used.

The most vitriolic and obsessive Russia-bashing journalists in the media are mostly Jewish. The publications which push these writers most energetically are ALL Jewish-owned, and as a publisher, I know very well, that is where the buck stops.

On the policy side, the neo-conservative movement, Russia's harshest foe, was conceived of, is led by, and consists mostly of, Jews. And their trouble-making extends far beyond Russia - they are responsible for America's disastrous debacle in the Middle East over the last 20 years - where their crimes have been stymied by precisely one country - Russia. The psychotically anti-Russian recent UN ambassadors, Nikki Haley and Samantha Power, were put there by the Israel lobby, and given an independent brief, in other words, they answer not to their presidents, rather to their Jewish sponsors.

In Congress the biggest Russia-Gate tub-thumpers are noticeably Jewish - Schiff, Schumer, Cardin, Blumenthal, Franken (although not as overwhelmingly as in the media). The Israel lobby routinely enforces legislation hostile to Russia. Bill Browder with his Magnitsky Sanctions - is Jewish.

4. The media

But let's talk about the media - for this is where the real power lies. All other levers and branches of government pale in comparison when it comes to real political influence.

At the two leading newspapers of the land, the New York Times and The Washington Post, both very Jewish in ownership, editors, and staff, have been waging an all-out jihad against Putin's Russia, and are guilty of the most grotesque dishonesty, slander and journalistic malpractice - exhaustively catalogued by one of the most authoritative and admired veteran journalists in America, Robert Parry, winner of the Polk award, among other accolades. You can see an archive of his extraordinary work criticizing these two publications, particularly in relation to Russia, here [ https://consortiumnews.com/tag/robert-parry/ ]. Trump and his supporters are up in arms about these two papers' serial mendacity about him both before and after his election - well they have been doing the same with Putin and Russia for a good 18 years now, and gone much further in their dishonesty, hard as that might be to believe.

PBS, with its lily-white image as purveyor of Masterpiece Theater and other highbrow offerings, is wholly dependent on donations from wealthy Jews. Like some Gentile starlet submitting to Harvey Weinstein, that station has allowed itself to be used, churning out a relentless stream of the most ridiculous anti-Putin propaganda that would be funny if it wasn't so effective among the gray-haired, non-flyover denizens of America, and their deep pocketbooks. CNN, a deeply Jewish company, has been pushing Russiagate like a religion, to the point where their brand has suffered severe damage.

Rachel Maddow, the nation's most popular and influential liberal political show host is Jewish. She has gone so overboard demonizing Russia and pushing Russiagate that she has become a figure of fun. On the print side, the list is the same - the ones shrieking the loudest are mostly Jews, and disproportionately female - and there is an important lesson there too - Masha Gessen, Anne Applebaum, and Julia loffe, to name a few.

The refrain from the male chorus is no less strident. David Remnick, David Frum, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Even comedy news hates Russia - John Oliver, Jon Stewart (previously), Bill Maher, all Jews, go to great efforts to convince Americans that Putin's Russia is, quite literally - and this term is frequently used - 'Hitlerian.'

Jewish-owned high brow magazines have been leading the charge against Putin - the Newhouse's New Yorker, the NY Review of Books (the management of this venerable magazine is obsessed with the subject). The New Republic, Newsweek, The Atlantic, and the Rothschild-owned Economist pump out story after story full of what can only be called lies, in a massive campaign to demonize Russia and Putin.

Timothy Snyder, the Yale historian, and Michael Weiss, the neocon firebrand whose website, The Interpreter,  is funded by the exiled Jewish oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, are two more prominent figures in this phenomenon.

The Economist deserves special mention with Ed Lucas leading the charge (previously), (he is the great nephew of Charles Portal, allegedly Jewish [1] chief of the air staff in Britain during WW2 who was allegedly a relentless proponent of fire-bombing German civilians and is thought to be [2] behind the burning of Dresden). I suppose having a purported war criminal in the family means never having to say you are sorry. Equally vitriolic are the writings of Ben Judah and his father, Tim.

But to draw attention to all this, or to investigate whether there is something about their Jewishness that makes them so hostile to Russia, is simply, verboten. Inevitably, when I point out this overwhelming ethnic imbalance, people say, well what about the many critics of the hostility to Russia who are Jewish? – the eminently admirable Glenn Greenwald is a prominent example, and there are many others. The answer is, that the exception to a trend doesn’t disprove it, and can often serve to mask it.

[1]https://beam-truth.livejournal.com/667584.html
[2]http://blacksun666.ucoz.ru/publ/real_holocaust/vsesozhzhenie_nemeckikh_starikov_zhenshhin_i_detej_realnyj_kholokost_3/3-1-0-18

5. A de facto violation of free speech

The truth is, that in a nation which frantically pats itself on the shoulder for enshrining ‘free speech’ in its national credo, and ceaselessly lectures others on the subject with pompous sanctimony, speech is not de facto free on this crucial and world-threatening subject, a remarkable, and dangerous, state of affairs. I will not be clapped into prison for publishing this article, but the taboo works like a charm to keep the topic out of public discussion. Who needs repressive laws when you can con people into censoring themselves? In Germany, the dominant power in Europe, and in other European countries, I could be locked up for it – another shocking thought, for this son of Germany.

The Jewish dominance of the Russia-bashing phenomenon is far more extensive than I can convey in a couple of short paragraphs, and I urge someone to do this in a more systematic way. I will be happy to publish it.

6. Shutting down an honest examination of Russian history

One of the most spectacular aspects of the taboo is how it whitewashes one of the most extraordinary events in the history of mankind, the Russian revolution.

Many White Russians fleeing the revolution believed that it was mostly a Jewish coup d’etat, financed by wealthy bankers in New York and London who were sworn enemies of Christian Tsarism. Indeed there is strong evidence to suggest that this is true. This view argues that the terror visited on Russia during the civil war and its aftermath, continuing well into the Stalin years, for he could not really control it either, was a Jewish one. Cursory evidence also suggests that this is so, if only because so much of the Bolshevik leadership was Jewish, in particular, Trotsky, but also many other vicious personalities, especially in the secret police which so terrorized the Russian people.

Henry Ford was heavily influenced by this view, which he heard from Russian emigres, augmenting his anti-semitism, and it has been well-documented [1] by liberal mainstream historians that the German National Socialist movement became radically more anti-semitic in reaction to this interpretation, which they adopted, strongly influenced by an influx of White Russians finding refuge in Europe. But one doesn’t hear a whisper about all this in mainstream historical articles, even to debunk it, presumably because someone might have their ‘feelings’ hurt.

This all reverberates to this day. The virulent and entrenched anti-semitism in today’s Ukraine is a direct heir of this White Russian view. This is because the Nazis had long-standing subversive programs implemented by their White Russian allies inside Ukraine and the Baltics, which were heavily German in ethnicity. The famines of the 30s increased the sentiment. When Hitler invaded, this work paid off magnificently, and Western Ukraine enthusiastically welcomed him and fought with his armies, as did many in the Baltics. After the war, German intelligence, in return for clemency, traded this network to the CIA, which continued the program to destabilize the USSR, and these programs, representing significant financial and institutional support continued right through the cold war, and into the present day.

What happened in 2014 in the Ukraine had a 100-year provenance, and is inextricably linked to alleged Jewish culpability for the revolution. But for all the gallons of ink spilled about the events of 2014, this crucial background is left largely undiscussed, even in the alternative media (I of all people, can attest to this).

Such is the reach and devastating effect of this taboo.

The enormity of the omission is mind-boggling. The suffering of the Russian people in the decades after the revolution was extraordinary – and here there is little agreement – modern revisionists insist that the revolution and its aftermath claimed perhaps 2 million victims, others say it reached into the 10s of millions. And it is not just the number of people, but the way it was carried out – families ripped apart, fathers hauled off in the middle of the night, churches blown up, priests tortured and subjected to ritual murder, phony confessions beaten out of innocents, summary executions without trial, an enforced culture of snitching, millions sent to slave labor camps – a nation was held in terror for decades, traumatized to this day. If there is even the slightest suspicion that this was in essence, a Jewish pogrom against ethnic Russians, surely it deserves some public examination.

But no, it seems people think observing the taboo is more important.

We try on Russia Insider to give exposure to this view of events, which I believe deserves a hearing – I am not enough of an expert to say whether it is correct - but so effective is the taboo, that there is little of quality available. There is a very substantial body of work available about this in Russian, most of it written since the fall of Communism, - in contrast to the West, this is a widely discussed view inside Russia – so the heavy lifting has been done – it just needs to be rendered into English.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Russian-Roots-Nazism-Socialism-1917-1945/dp/0521070058/

7. The best alt-media journalists are neutered

One of the things we do at RI is to scan the alternative media for what we think are the best articles about Russia, and republish them with a link to the original. We also keep an eye on what we think are the most dishonest articles - and critique them, and it is this comprehensive surveying of the writers and the publications that gives me such a strong understanding of the Jewishness of the hostility. The casual reader’s awareness of it may be anecdotal – I can assure you, it is more pronounced than people realize. When you read, catalog, analyze, track, and critique this river of thought 8 hours a day it becomes starkly obvious.

I am routinely and happily amazed by the fantastic writing about Russia, left, right, and center, in the alternative media, which comes from a most impressive cast of characters, the bulk of it about geopolitics. The intellectual heft and scholarship is extraordinary. Borrowing from this brilliance, we put out a deeper and more thorough analysis of things Russia-related than news organizations with 20 times our budget.

Some of these men are true heroes, speaking truth to power, fighting back against a system gone horribly wrong, brave, selfless, often sacrificing career and financial well-being - but there is one line they won't cross.

8. Much of what is written about Russian relations and history becomes meaningless and deceptive

Sadly, a lot of what they write, is, meaningless, and almost amounts to professional malpractice, because the Jewish push for confrontation with Russia is, by far, the most significant factor. Excluding it from a discussion of geopolitics is ignoring the elephant, not in the corner, rather the one dancing a Mazurka in the middle of the room. We should not forget that willful omission is a species of lying, and is recognized as such in a court of law, and this case is no different.

The omission is misleading, and sows endless confusion, for it compels writers to place blame where it does not really belong - the list of culprits is endless: 'Democrats,' Liberals,' sometimes it is 'America did this,' or 'Americans did that,' or it is Trump, or Obama, or Hillary, or Rex Tillerson, or John McCain, or the Military-Industrial-Complex, the Deep State, the Intelligence Community, and on and on. Yes, these individuals are complicit, (except ‘America,’ it is a ridiculous notion that we 350 million souls collectively agree on anything) but it is not their spineless treachery that is of prime importance, rather the powerful Jews in American politics and media who so easily compel them to dance to their tune.

9. A lesson in relevance from the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right is helpful in understanding Russia, because it has intellectual heft, and produces a lot of good writing about Russia and Russian relations, much of which is spot-on. We follow the Alt-Right media and republish the occasional article, and they are invariably very popular on Russia Insider – largely, I think, because they are offering a fresh point of view, and talking about vitally important issues others refuse to address.

The Alt-Right is a youth movement. Its leaders are mostly in their 30s, and the rank and file, which is large indeed, running, by some estimates, into the 10s of millions globally, seems to mostly range from mid-teens to mid-20s. Much of the Alt-Right has completely discarded this taboo and revels in flouting it, indeed, trampling on it, as is the wont of young people regarding the more tedious and preposterous conventions of every era.

It is axiomatic, I think, that one way youth benefits society, is that they question what the old men are saying - shake things up a bit, make them examine their assumptions. It is no coincidence that in the Emperor With No Clothes children’s story, it is a child who points out the obvious, what the adults are so desperately pretending not to see, because it will impair their material well-being.

Pointing out the pernicious effects of the influence of certain Jewish elites on many aspects of American and European society and politics, as the Alt-Right does, greatly assists in understanding how politics really work.

If you doubt this, then I highly recommend that you listen to a couple of episodes of the most popular Alt-Right podcasts, like Fash the Nation [1], or Richard Spencer’s Alt-Right Politics [2], easily accessible by smartphone. The Fash the Nation hosts are two Beltway policy wonks who sound like they are in their late 20s or early 30s, who spend a couple hours each week talking politics. In their analysis, when relevant, and not over-stating it, they point out when Jewish interests are at play, when politicians, journalists, lobbyists, publishers, publications, foundations, or their main funders, allies, spouses, and backers, are Jewish. The gang at Alt-Right Politics does the same. It becomes very clear what is intuitively obvious - that blotting out any mention of this hampers any serious discussion.

(For Fash the Nation, I recommend episodes with Marcus Halberstram, like this one [3], and for Alt Right Politics, the year-in-review episode [4] was a good one. The Fash the Nation hosts use obscenity on their show, which unfortunately detracts from their credibility, but don't be put off by it, put it up to youthful ignorance - they are worth listening to.)

By blowing up this taboo, the Alt-Right is making itself relevant, and those who cling to it, irrelevant. A taboo only works if it is universally observed - if a sizable number of people begin ignoring it, everyone else begins to look increasingly ridiculous. Liberals spend an inordinate amount of time wringing their hands about the Alt-Right. By refusing to openly and fairly discuss Jewish influence, they are handing them a powerful competitive advantage.

The Alt-Right is doing society a service by addressing an issue that urgently needs sunlight, and by providing an ecosystem of websites and podcasts where authors can be published and critiqued, and points argued back and forth. Much of the discussion of Jewish influence in the Alt-Right is very scholarly, fair and balanced, i.e. the work of Kevin MacDonald [5] or Michael Hoffman.

I believe the Alt-Right will continue to gain traction, simply because they intelligently discuss two sacred cows – the Jewish Question, and, closely linked to it, racial equality in terms of abilities, and the desirability of mixed-race societies. As long as they are addressing these two crucial issues, and no one else is, they will grow.

[1] http://fashthenation.com/category/fash-the-nation/
[2] https://altright.com/author/altrightpolitics/
[3] http://fashthenation.com/2018/01/fash-the-nation-104-shithole-sophistry/
[4] https://altright.com/2018/01/04/alt-right-politics-year-end-awards/
[5] https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Critique-Evolutionary-Twentieth-Century-Intellectual/dp/0759672229
[6] https://www.amazon.com/Judaisms-Strange-Gods-Revised-Expanded/dp/0970378483/

10. Malice towards none

Another pernicious effect of taboos is that they can lead to angry outbursts. When problems are not addressed, they tend to fester and worsen, until they become intolerable, and then there is sometimes a sudden and violent reaction. You can see this dynamic in the public discussion of the malevolent influence of Jewish elites. Some people, when they finally perceive its reach and harm, having been misled by people they admired and trusted, lash out in anger – a common reaction when you find out you’ve been deceived about something vitally important. This, I believe, is another reason to be rid of this taboo as soon as possible – it has a way of making things worse.

Obviously, this discussion should be done without any hatred or anger to Jews as a whole. The Jews who are causing the trouble – the ones at the pinnacles of political and media power, are a small group indeed. Anyone who has grown up with and knows Jews well, as I have, knows that they are like people everywhere - basically decent, and this has been my overwhelming personal experience. It is their elite institutions that for some reason are clearly malevolent, and this demands public examination, not the least by Jews themselves.

What I am calling for is criticizing the elites who have given their nation a very bad name, and figuring out why this pattern repeats itself throughout history.

11. The problem extends to all areas of public life

The ongoing sex scandals which grace our front pages seem to provide an exclamation point to the phenomenon. Across the board, from Hollywood to entertainment to media to Washington, the poor sods being called out by the screeching harpy mob tend towards a certain ethnicity, not to mention the leading men in the spectacle. For all the talk and blather and belly button contemplation that the drama is evoking, no one, outside the Alt-Right, mentions this obvious fact, for it would be impolite.

The problem seems to arise when Jews get into positions of influence, i.e., when they join the dreaded 'elites.' Then, for some reason, regardless of their political sympathies or other particulars, they get up to no good - and something goes seriously wrong. Maybe the powerful Jewish institutions - the media, the banks, the movie studios, the music industry, etc, are in the hands of degenerates who demand bad behavior as the price of admission, and then enforce it. I really don't know, but obviously, the question begs for an examination, as the evidence suggests that much of human enterprise dominated and shaped by Jews is a bottomless pit of trouble with a peculiar penchant for mendacity and cynicism, hostility to Christianity and Christian values, and in geopolitics, a clear bloodlust.

Hollywood and TV dramas? A completely Jewish-dominated industry, and a soulless spiral of depravity and cynicism, which only worsens with each passing year. Financial markets? - ditto - just watch the movies The Big Short or The Wolf of Wall Street for a particularly vivid illustration. Pop music and the rap nightmare? - ditto. The state of Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians? - more of the same. American foreign policy? - an unmitigated disaster which has murdered millions and squandered trillions over the last 30 years.

And I think 'murder' is the right word here - I think if you would ask the relatives of the 2 or so million Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Yemenis, East Ukrainians, or Serbs who died in the wars instigated by the largely Jewish-dictated US foreign policy over the past couple of decades, that they would back me up on that.

In each of these cases, one sees a tendency towards dishonesty. Indeed the whole 'Fake News' phenomenon, is fundamentally Jewish. It is the Jewish-owned American and European media which churn out an astonishing quantity of what can only be called lies.

12. We need serious scholarship and analysis

Yes, 1900 years after the exasperated Romans scattered the Hebrew tribes to the four winds, the 'JQ' is still a huge, messy, unsolved problem, and in our age, it is reaching yet another crisis. I can only speak with authority on a subject I know a lot about: Western foreign policy towards Russia, and the Jewish influence there, is nothing short of an extinction-level threat to the entire planet. I am sure experts in Middle Eastern politics would confirm something similar.
All this needs scholarship and serious inquiry, to finally get to the bottom of this ongoing tragedy, a tragedy for both Jew and Gentile alike. Some writers have made important inroads, like Kevin MacDonald, but much more needs to be done to understand the problem.

One serious writer, Michael Hoffman, in his book Judaism's Strange Gods [1], argues the problem is with modern Judaism, which has changed radically from the religion of the Old Testament, effectively hijacked by various Jewish sects such as the New Testament era Pharisees who inspire misanthropic behavior among elites. I really can't say, but it is precisely this kind of inquiry which is needed to figure out, as our president likes to say 'what the hell is going on.'

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Judaisms-Strange-Gods-Revised-Expanded/dp/0970378483/

13. Low expectations from the existing alt-media

I know that many writers and editors in the alt-media, and the alt-lite, privately agree with what I have written here, but we should not expect many of them to break the taboo anytime soon. The reason is that they mostly barely hang on financially, and often work for tiny wages, and any such change in editorial policy would knock out a certain part of their funding (not to mention some of their better authors), making their financial situation untenable. Some are beholden to foundations or governments who would pull support. The needed intellectual work is going to be done on the few platforms whose support base will tolerate it – and this will mostly be on the Alt-Right, or publications that can buck the tide, like Russia Insider.

14. A call for articles and support

I met strong resistance to the ideas expressed here from colleagues, staff and columnists who contribute to RI. I've discussed it at length with many of them. Some of the best writers on the site, and some of the most articulate critics of America's inane policy towards Russia, are Jewish. Some agree with me privately, but say that to do so publicly would so damage their careers that they cannot. Some do not agree.

Russia Insider depends heavily on reader contributions, and I suppose this will curtail donations from some, so if you agree with this article, then now would be a good time to click on the donate button.

Discussion of the Jewish problem (and 'problem' is the right word here) is obviously not going to be the focus of Russia Insider - we try to be primarily about Russia, but I am willing to give space to this issue, and not just as it relates to Russia. I invite all writers, including from the Alt-Right, to get in touch with me directly at charles@russia-insider.com with article ideas, proposals, or anything else, and yes, we will publish articles which use (((echoes))).

It is my great regret that we are not in a position to pay authors for articles. If anyone reading this is in a position to help provide funding to pay writers on this important subject, that would be helpful, because it immediately raises the quality and depth of the writing. If you are interested, please get in touch with me directly.

At the end of the day, I don't care whether other people agree with me on this or not, whether I lose or gain authors or donations, traffic or influence, or whether the big tech platforms try to hush us up (they are already actively doing so). I started this site in the Fall of 2014 to call out a terrible crime, a whopping lie being told, by the media, most vociferously by Jews in very influential Jewish-owned publications, (Andrew Kramer and the editorial board of the New York Times being the prime example) about the conflict in the Ukraine. I didn't see it as a Jewish problem then – I just knew it wasn’t true. I knew relatively little about Jewish influence at the time. But after three years of immersing myself in political analysis and media criticism, it is as plain as day that this is the case.

Russia Insider earned respect by doing our best to tell the truth, and calling out flagrant dishonesty in the media.
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We're not about to stop now.

Article update: Here is an excellent discussion of this article and its significance on Richard Spencer's weekly audio roundtable podcast 'AltRight Politics' from January 18, 2018.

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Article update 1/22/2018: Russia Insider's Article Translated and Published in Russian!

My article of last Monday, It's Time to Drop the Jew Taboo, caused a firestorm of interest, praise, and criticism.

It now has over 110,000 views on RI, has been republished on several other sites, including the Unz Review [1], and has generated a handful of articles both praising and damning it. This is precisely what I had hoped for - the whole point of the article was to say that we, America and Europe, need to discuss this openly - and this now appears to be happening.

Without my soliciting it, a Russian reader sent in a truly excellent translation, which very accurately captures not just the sense of the article, but also the style. I deal with translations every day and they usually serve to mortify prose, but this one succeeds in bringing it alive, for which I am truly grateful. 5000 words is a lot to translate, I can assure you, and I think that this happened so quickly and professionally says a lot. Reportedly a Spanish translation is in the works.

I just published it on the Russian version of our site. We do not maintain that page very actively, only occasionally publishing there. I imagine that the topic should be of interest to the Russian public.

Radio Liberty, which is not a radio station, but a Russian language website put out by the US government info services, did a silly and misleading hatchet job in Russian on the article the day after it appeared: Anti-Semites of the World - Unite! [2], probably not considering that the original would soon appear in Russian. Now the Russian reader can judge for themselves if they made a fair representation.

I would ask readers to please share this excellent translation with their Russian friends and acquaintances.

- Charles Bausman

[1] http://www.unz.com/article/its-time-to-drop-the-jew-taboo/
[2] https://www.svoboda.org/a/28979016.html

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