What About “Whataboutism.”
Vladimir Golstein Wikipedia – the most popular source of information for most people – boldly announces: “Whataboutism, also known as whataboutery, is a variant of the tu quoque logical...
Updating the 2020 edition of the OED
Vladimir Golstein In the tradition of the Oxford English Dictionary, I recommend the following terms and their definitions to be included in a 2020 version of the same. DNC...
My Interview with Democratic Candidate They Legion
Vladimir Golstein In the heart of the heartland, in Des Moines, Iowa, the Democratic Party has at last found a perfect candidate, the one who finally looks like America....
Hidden in Plain View in Belgrade
by Vladimir Golstein, August 3, 2018, via Consortium News Right across the street from my hotel, tucked behind tall office buildings, is the rather large Church of St. Mark....
The Myth of the Given
by Vladimir Golstein One of the problems of dealing with establishment, politicians, mass media and their pundits, is that they start with some phony certainties: Serbs committed genocide; Russians...
The End of the Cold War and Shakespeare’s Macbeth
by Vladimir Golstein It is naïve to think that Macbeth is only about some “vaulting” and murderous ambition. Macbeth does not acquire the throne with the intention of controlling...
The dark spectre of political correctness
by Vladimir Golstein at the Duran A spectre is haunting Europe—and it is not the spectre of communism. Marx’s dream had been replaced by a much more primitive, pernicious,...
The Grand Inquisitor and his Guardians: Mass Media and the Fog in our Brains
by Vladimir Golstein, republished from gianalytics.org Of course, we can blame as much as we want corporate media, its greedy owners, or its equally corrupt writers and journalists, who...
