Dear friends,This has been a “week from hell” for me, with the main blog down for days, but now at least this problem has been fixed. Still, since there are still some odd things happening with the new blog, I will continue to double-post on both blogs, for the time being.The Latin American Saker Blog is coming along nicely with a top-notch team being assembled for various Latin American countries
Dear friends, Do I have a treat for your today!! The famous Russian economist Mikhail Khazin has agreed to participate in a Q&A with the readers of this blog. Here how this will work: during all of next week (until Friday the 24th 6PM GMT), you will have the possibility to submit questions to Mr Khazin. Then the Russian Saker Blog Team and myself will select the best ones and
Dear friends,As you can see, the new blog is still down. I was told by my IT specialist that it will be back up tonight. As soon as I know something I will let you know too. Guys, Hebrew is not the second language in the Ukraine. Rate your sources, okay? (FYI – What is true is that the junta wants to make English the second language).Gubarev was shot at.
Dear friends,I have the pleasure to inform our community that the Serbian Saker Blog is now officially online at the following address:http://www.thesakersrpski.rs/This blog also contains a large archives of my previous articles all translated into Serbian.I am especially honored and delighted to welcome the entire Serbian Saker Blog Team to the Saker community because of the obvious (and frightening) similarities between the events of the US/NATO war against Serbia in
Dear friends, In this short post I just want to share with you four small housekeeping items: 1) Your suggestions and comments about the new blog: they have all been carefully parsed and we have made a few immediate corrections, but there are still major problems with the migration to the new blog which have to be taken care of first before we turn to ironing out the aesthetic issues.
Dear friends,Please forgive the short reply, I am swamped with work, but I want to let you know that the following change to the new blog has already been approved: adding another box on the right hand column with St George ribbon in it. This box will also include links to the blogs philosophy, moderation policy, and a quick blurb about anonymous postings are welcome. Second, the domain name/URL http://10.16.86.131/
Dear friends,It is with a huge pleasure that I can announce some very good and long waited news: the new Saker blog is now up and running and you can use either of the two following links to access it: http://10.16.86.131/ and http://10.16.86.131/ My wonderful IT team (A, F and MB – thanks guys!!) put a lot of work into importing seven years worth of posts and comments and to
Dear friends,I have absolutely no idea what happened recently, but I am getting comments and emails form many of you saying that their comments had been “censored”. Guys, I did not censor any comments or, much less so, ban anybody (well, I did trash a few comments, but they were either totally insulting and rude, or spam; I mean no “normal” comment was trashed) Blogger is clearly doing something weird
Dear friends,First, the good news: our IT specialists are finalizing the final touches of the new blog and, God willing, it should go live before the end of the week. I will make an official announcement when everything is ready, so don’t worry about missing anything.Second, today I have so much technical and administrative things to deal with and so many emails that I have to reply to that I
Today I am taking care of personal and administrative matters. God willing, I should be back tomorrow. I leave you with the latest artwork by Josetxo Ezcurra and an open thread.Cheers,The Saker
Dear friends,First, I want to thank you all for your support and kind words about the Russia Insider project. I am also truly delighted to be associated with this endeavor.Second, I wanted to clarify a few things about Russia Insider and my role in it. Russia Insider is not a blog or a collective of blogs. The format used by RI is deliberately kept to short(er) posts, not long analytical
I am delighted to announce that I have been contacted by the editors of the new website Russia Insider and that I have accepted their offer to collaborate with them. I did agree to this not only because I knew several of the excellent contributors to this project, but also because I truly believe that it is a much needed, timely and very important project (please see Russia Insider’s “About”
Dear friends,I wanted to share with you a couple of blog housekeeping news. First, the “kinda-but-I-am-not-so-sure-bad” news: after both of the people whom I had asked to help me as pre-moderators bailed out on me (the first one due to disagreements in the format of the blog, the second due to personal issues) I have decided that when the new blog goes live I will do all the moderation myself.
Dear friends,Sorry for the long silence. I am fine, just had some personal issues in meatspace to take care of, now I am back to normal and, God willing, I should have a Ukraine SITREP ready for you by the end of the afternoon. Topic will include the Poroshenko speech, the latest “sellout” of Novorussia, the Minsk Memorandum, and the World Economic Forum’s so-called “Ukraine Initiative”.Stay tuned and give me
Dear friends,I couple of short ones today.First, according to the EU Parliament member Wolfgang Gerke (sp?) the EU is debating making a list of Russian journalists to be barred from entering the EU. Banderastan already has such a black list with 35 names. So much for “democratic” and “European” “free speech” values. The Russian press is openly laughing. Feel the love! Second, those who had any doubts about where the
Dear friends,Some of you may have noticed that a few comments have been posted here accusing me of spreading the rumor of Strelkov’s death. The same nonsense has also been posted elsewhere on the Internet.Just to make things clear, I was told about these rumors this morning from several readers. I replied to them that I did not believe that this was true. The origin of these rumors might be
Dear friends,I promised myself that I would go away from the keyboard but I could not, there is just so much going on! I am working on a analysis/commentary of the Strelkov press conference and I could need some help here. Can you help me find out which media did cover it and how?For example, not a single Russian TV channel has said a word about it, at least so
Dear friends,I just wanted to share with you the news that Igor Strelkov has made a truly historical press conference. For those understanding Russian, please see here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUQeJHqNZFsAs soon as I get a translation or, better, a subtitled video I will post it here.At this point I will only say that his statements are both very powerful and very subtle and a very careful analysis of his statements needs to be
Dear friends,First, I want to begin this news update with an un-official pre-announcement: it appears that the Saker Blog community might welcome a new Language Team in our community, and a big language at that! Since this is neither final nor official, I don’t want to announce this yet, but I cannot resist giving you a little head-up about this.Second, I have seen the prototype of the new WordPress based
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize“ Voltaire Dear new-to-this blog friends,Why do I speak of “AngloZionists”? I got that question many times in the past, so I will make a separate post about it to (hopefully) explain this once and for all.1) Anglo: The USA in an Empire. With roughly 1000 overseas bases (depends on how you count), a undeniably
