Historian Stephen Cohen, who has studied Russia for decades, criticized in 2015 the confrontational and domineering policy that the US has taken towards Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Here's the second half.

I think we can have some confidence in Cohen's judgment, because he is not one of the Putin pets you find so many of nowadays. He doesn't start from the assumption that Putin is good and the US is bad. He regards the US government and the Russian government both as playing the same kind of power game, but Putin's aims are more modest and his strategy more coherent.

One point in the articles requires correction. The referendum in the Crimea was imposed by "pro-Russian gunmen" who had captured the parliament building and ordered the vote at gunpoint. We now know that they were capable of mounting a "well co-ordinated military operation" because they were Russian soldiers not wearing their usual uniforms.

But this is a small error and I still trust the articles overall.

The Israeli soldier convicted of killing a helpless Palestinian is not a "rotten apple". He's a typical sample of the whole rotten barrel.

Why Workers Everywhere Should Be Scared by Kentucky's Assault on Unions.

The newly published report on alleged Russian involvement in cracking Democratic Party servers has no new evidence to show that Russia was involved.

Some of the report was leaked to the Washington Post by the CIA. The troll is scandalized.

Wikileaks points out that the CIA is leaking top secret documents to the press to manipulate US public opinion, just as Wikileaks is accused of doing.

The troll's threats seem to have convinced Ford not to increase production in Mexico.

I see nothing wrong about importing products made by Mexicans in Mexico, but moving production to Mexico should not serve as an excuse to cut workers' pay. US companies that move US production to Mexico should pay the Mexican workers US-style salaries.