Field notes from Alaska/полевые заметки с Аляски

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Why is everybody so shocked by Trump's new executive order returning Alaska to Russia? It's just a logical next step in the hostile takeover of the US Government by a Russian spy ring. Of course, Alaska was a Fascist Republican state and voted 51.29% for Trump, so most of its people deserve their fate. But I pity the former state's gorgeous flora ( Read more... )

A few people have asked me about the situation in SW Cameroon. The situation is tragic. For decades the two English-speaking provinces (20% of the population) were treated by the central government as an occupied territory. Despite oppression, they have lower corruption, more dynamic economy and better education than the French-speaking part of the ( Read more... )

I'm copying my FB post so that I can find it later:

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So, today we'll find out if WWII was fought in vain and Fascism will take over the world anyway. Took them just 70 years to come back, and this time they don't even have to shoot, just lie a lot.
A few years ago I wrote this post; nobody believed me. I was right, as always ( Read more... )

Мой беспризорный текстик все-таки напечатали, но в другом месте.

Несколько месяцев назад одно российское издание обратилось ко мне с просьбой дать письменное интервью о научно-популярной литературе. Видимо, мой ответ на их вопрос редакцию не устроил, потому что больше я от них ничего не слышал. Чтобы текст не пропал, сохраню-ка я его здесь.

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Написал заметку для журнала L'Officiel Voyage. Поскольку найти ее на сайте журнала несколько сложно, выкладываю сканчик.

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