The extraordinary Seymour Hersh, now 86 and still more worth reading than the entire output of The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Time, Newsweek, and the farcical PBS news coverage combined, has just released another enormous scoop on his personal sub stack. It appeared there, of course, because none of our Wonderful, Fearless, … Continue reading “By Now Jake Sullivan Expected Russia To Be Destroyed”
Martin Sieff
Martin Sieff is the former Chief Foreign Correspondent of The Washington Times and former Managing Editor, International Affairs and Chief News Analyst for United Press International. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for International Reporting and so far has published seven books on current affairs and history.
Sieff is currently a senior fellow at the American University in Moscow and has been for more than a decade a regular op-ed contributor to the China Daily, one the largest circulation news platforms and news papers in the world.. He is the author of several books.
His 2015 book "Cycles of Change" (Amazon/Kindle) is a political history of the United States from Thiomas Jefferson to Barack Obama. Its sequel "Gathering Storm" (2015) predicted the rise of the populist revolts in both the Democratic and Republican Parties in the 2016 and 2020 election cycles and a major national crisis that will not be resolved until at least 2028.
Sieff has covered every presidential and congressional election in the past 25 years as chief political correspondent for UPI and for major European and Asian news outlets. He was the chief analyst and correspondent on the Soviet Union and Russia for 23 years for The Washington Times and United Press International.
Sieff has two degrees in Modern History from Oxford University (BA Oxon and MA Oxon) and did his graduate studies on the Middle East at the London School of Economics. He has also served as Adjunct Professor of Transnational Threats at Bay Atlantic University in Washington, DC.
Sieff has covered conflicts in his native Northern Ireland, Israel and the West Bank, Indonesia, Cambodia, Bosnia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Central Asia and the Baltic states. He has reported from more than 70 nations and covered 12 wars.
Prigozhin’s Death: Yet Another US Delusion Bites the Dust
The idea that Yevgeny Prigozhin posed a plausible – or even desirable – alternative to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was always ludicrous. Prigozhin was catapulted high and fast by his willingness to fund and lead the Wagner Group of mercenaries which proved highly useful to the Russian government in the ferocious, long-drawn-out fighting over recent … Continue reading “Prigozhin’s Death: Yet Another US Delusion Bites the Dust”
Accepting the Inevitable: Decoding the US Retreat on Nord Stream 2
The US-German joint statement on the latest Nord Stream 2 agreement is filled with more protective and misleading rhetoric than a giant squid can spew out clouds of black ink. The statement predictably begins with the inevitable ritualistic agreement between Washington and Berlin that "The United States and Germany are united in their determination to … Continue reading “Accepting the Inevitable: Decoding the US Retreat on Nord Stream 2”