Month: March 2006

”The American Soul”

“In 1978 or so, Mstislav Rostropovich, the famed cellist who ultimately made the National Symphony Orchestra into a national treasure, arrived on our shores from Russia from which he had been exiled by Leonid Brezhnev....

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Fear Up Harsh: The Iraqi Civil War in Context

Written by Chris Floyd   – crossposted at Empire Burlesque The causes underlying any civil war are always complex, confused, even contradictory — as one would expect in an outbreak of madness. But those seeking...

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