John Brown's Notes and Essays

Saturday, June 1, 2019

[Russica] -- Dating back 200 years ago: The old PH-Russia ties

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MANILA  -- This week marks the 43rd year of establishment of diplomatic relations between the Philippines and Russia. It was on June 2, ...
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Image for the day: The Rough Riders

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A 1898 cyanotype portrait of Rough Rider officers, including Theodore Roosevelt, left of center, under a tent in Montauk, on the eastern...
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Friday, May 31, 2019

Sanctimonious, faux shrink, ex police reporter D. Brooks repeats the word "people" only eight times in his latest NYT column ... but he's doesn't fail to add a similar meaningless word! (See below)

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The word is "person" (repeated four times) ... David Brooks, "When Trolls and Crybullies Rule the Earth: How technology r...
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An electric scooter caught fire in downtown D.C. [or, "Come on Baby, light my fire."]

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It’s unclear what caused the Skip device to burst into flames, but the fire appeared to be concentrated around the battery. ...
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Thursday, May 30, 2019

How ‘Reset’ Man McFaul Helped Torpedo U.S.-Russia Relations

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To get a sense of why Putin meddled in our elections one need go no further than the Obama administration's hijinks. Scott Ridder, ...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Image for the Day: Mails of the World, Unite!

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What is hell?

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image from Hell is looking at oneself in the mirror first thing in the morning [anon]
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John Brown
A Princeton PhD, was a U.S. diplomat for over 20 years, mostly in Central/Eastern Europe, and was promoted to the Senior Foreign Service in 1997. After leaving the State Department in 2003 to express strong reservations about the planned U.S. invasion of Iraq, he shared ideas with Georgetown University students on the tension between propaganda and public diplomacy. He has given talks on "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United" to participants in the "Open World" program. Among Brown’s many articles is his latest piece, “Janus-Faced Public Diplomacy: Creel and Lippmann During the Great War,” now online. He is the compiler (with S. Grant) of The Russian Empire and the USSR: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States (also online). In the past century, he served as an editor/translator of a joint U.S.-Soviet publication of archival materials, The United States and Russia: The Beginning of Relations,1765-1815. His approach to "scholarly" aspirations is poetically summarized by Goethe: "Gray, my friend, is every theory, but green is the tree of life."
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