Category Archives: Behind Bars

Rogues’ Gallery? Nine More Atlanta Mugshots — Now Out on (Blog) Bond

Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows was on the infamous call — detailed in the indictment — in which Trump urged state election officials to find the votes he’d need to win. Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, also traveled to Georgia at one point to try and gain access to a state audit of absentee ballot envelopes. Meadows faces two felony counts in the indictment. Meadows is charged with racketeering and soliciting a violation of an oath by a public officer.

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Speaking of Coups, Two Reports, Bloomberg on central Africa, and Dyer on the U.S.

#1 – Bloomberg: Out of Africa, a New World War

By supporting the coup in Niger, Russia proves again that it sees its struggle against the West as a global war, just not a declared one yet.

Bloomberg Opinion-You can think of the unfolding disaster in Niger in four ways, from embarrassing to ominous, catastrophic and apocalyptic.

Embarrassing, because the country’s coup on July 26 is blowback for a clueless West:

Neither the hapless former colonial power, France, nor the waning superpower, the US, saw this coming.

Ominous, because it’s a windfall for Russia and China, as they vie with the West for influence in the region and world.

Potentially catastrophic, because it’s a setback in the struggle against jihadist terrorism and uncontrolled migration.

Possibly apocalyptic, if it marks a slide into world war. Continue reading Speaking of Coups, Two Reports, Bloomberg on central Africa, and Dyer on the U.S.

Money Where His Mouth Is: Alexei Navalny’s Vision of a Better, Peaceful Russia

Washington Post, September 30, 2022

This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like




Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. This essay was conveyed to The Post by his legal team.


What does a desirable and realistic end to the criminal war unleashed by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine look like?


If we examine the primary things said by Western leaders on this score, the bottom line remains: Russia (Putin) must not win this war. Ukraine must remain an independent democratic state capable of defending itself.

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From Politico: Under the Radar, Many DC cops are Coup-sympathizers, or Worse —Politico

 

Say Hello to The New “Antiwar” Movement: It’s Already Winning

Back in the day, the Vietnam years, resisters against the military draft could muster an occasional bit of whimsy. A favorite button was about beer.

But if truth is the first casualty of war, for many of us whimsy and a sense of humor were soon missing in action too. Draft resistance became a mass movement: marches, sit-ins, draft files turned into bonfires, show trials of high profile protesters. It was a gripping, sometimes heroic, often grim time, and as the war dragged on, not a lot of laughs. In 1970, a movie was released called Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?” Billed as a comedy-drama; it was a total flop. Continue reading Say Hello to The New “Antiwar” Movement: It’s Already Winning