Philip Cunningham Returns From Exile! The American Solzhenitsyn Is Allowed Back Into His Country!

This is great news for all Human Rights activists who have been concerned about the fate of Philip Cunningham, an American citizen who was recently in exile from America, according to an article he published in the Bangkok Post on September 3, 2005:

Philip J Cunningham, Chairman of America Watch (a non-existent, non-profit human rights group founded by American citizens in China in exile from the current US regime).

But now he has returned safe and sound to America, where he is a visiting fellow at Cornell University in New York.

Oh, Philip!    How and why did the “current US regime” let you back into the country?  After the Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn was forcibly deported from his country in 1974 and then charged with treason, he was not allowed to return from exile until 20 years later, after the Soviet regime had ended.  But the Bush administration under which Cunningham went into “exile” is still in office.  Philip, what did you do to change the American regime’s mind, to persuade them to let you back into the country? Read the rest of this entry »

A Guest Post by Ivan, for Red Army Day

Last night I received another drunken phone call from Ivan.   He has asked me to post this song on 23 February, Russia’s “Defender of the Fatherland Day”, the anniversary of the founding of the Red Army:

And for good measure, Read the rest of this entry »