Dear friends, While I am in the process of fully re-involving me with the fulltime work on the blog, I wanted to share a few things with you. First, now that I am fully back, I want to ask our guest authors to return to the practice of sending me their contributions to the usual email address: vineyardsaker@gmail.com and not to my assistant Amarynth as we have been doing over
Dear friends, As promised, we are doing away with “anonymous” comments later today. Other than that, the blog is doing great and there is nothing special to report. Kind regards Andrei
Dear friends Today I underwent a small medical procedure, all went well, but I need a few days to rest. I will be at home, and I will work on blog-issues, but I might take a few days longer than usual to answer emails. Keep them to a minimum please, just until next week, ok? As for submissions, they can go to both me and Amarynth (just do like you
Dear friends First, I opened a Parler account: @TheSaker Right now I am NOT using it, just made one small test post, but I might decide to use it in the near future. So, FYI, if you want to support Parler (which is my main reason to open a Parler account to begin with), you can now follow me there too. Next, I want to let you know that I
Dear friends, As soon as I heard about the tragic explosion in Beirut I told my family “you will see, there will be some idiots who will say it was a nuke”. Sure enough, today I already see nonsense posted about the usual suspects about the Israelis nuking of Beirut. Some even claim this was a thermonuclear explosion! This just proves to me that I was right when I added
Dear friends As you might have heard, there is a hurricane coming very close to the Florida Atlantic coast: Hurricane Isaias The actual effects of the hurricane are hard to predict, since it depends on whether Isaias will turn to the right or to the left by just a few degrees. This is especially true since Isaias is slowing down to take the right hand turn, which makes it hard
Dear friends, For the past couple of years I had the following basic “rhythm” of work: once a week I would write an analysis roughly ranging from 1500 to 3500 words, typically around 2000-3000 words. The rest of my work would involve research (especially parsing as much of the Russian blogosphere and news media as possible), contacts with my guest authors, collaboration with our translators, etc. Please keep in mind
Dear crybabies, I think I need to explain a few things to you: First, the Saker blog is the Saker‘s blog and not your blog or a public blog. So your First Amendment rights don’t apply here. Cry me a river! Second, you are mistaken if you think you got “censored” for your views or ideas. In fact, except for clear cases of racism (this is the only “view” I
Dear friend of the Saker Community and beyond, I have to tell you that the COVID19 crisis has hit the Saker Community pretty hard. So far, I know of nobody who has a confirmed COVID19 infection (2 suspected and unconfirmed), but that is not the only way that this pandemic has affected us. A lot of us are now under house quarantine or have already lost their jobs; other are
Dear friends, I am rather exhausted (not COVID10-related) and I will take a couple of days off to recuperate and think about a number of issues. I will let you know all the details in a couple of days. Finally, for the next couple of days, the moderator’s decisions will be final and I will not be involved. I ask for your understanding and patience. Kind regards to all, The
Dear friends, I have the painful obligation to let you know that “my eyes were bigger than my stomach” and that I am shelving the COVID19 Cafe project. Simply put, I don’t have the energy, and we don’t have the manpower. Furthermore, this might have been an ill-conceived idea to begin with, as this blog is really not a medical one. Anyway, first I want to apologize to all those
Dear friends, I just wanted to share a quick update with you about our community and myself. So far, I know of no member of our community who would have contracted the SARS-CoV-2 and developed the COVID19 infection. But *A LOT* of our members have been affected by the virus, many are in lockdown at home. This situation also affects to 20 or so key-members of the various Saker blog
Dear friends, I decided to post this short update to let you know that I am trying to take just a little time off to recover from a regular (non-COVID19) flu. Mostly, I am still exhausted and I need to rest a bit. Still, since the world does not stop rotating for yours truly, here area few comments I want to share with you about different matters and I post
Dear friends, I am going to be on the road for 10 days or so, visiting a sick relative of mine and seeing some good friends. I should have Internet, at least in the evenings, but please be patient with me if I am slow in answering emails. I will be updating the blog as best I can, mostly in the evenings. Hopefully, my short trip will therefore have little,
Dear friends, Excellent news! First, I am happy to announce the official launch of the Saker Community Translations YouTube channel which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgh-2Oe7nK5lp_H3f0SQ89Q This project has been launched by three volunteers of the Saker Community and its main goal is to regularly post the insightful political commentaries of Ruslan Ostashko, one of the most insightful Russian analysts whose videos have been regularly translated and subtitled on this
Dear friends, After giving it a lot of thought, I have had to take the very painful decision to cancel my trip to Russia. There are several causes which contributed to this decision, but the main one is my health and current inability to embark upon such a trip. Also, the planned dates (July) were probably not the best ones possible, so this trip is probably going to have to
Dear friends, I just wanted to let you know that I will be on the road for a few days and totally out of reach. Specifically, I will be completely disconnected from the Internet from Saturday April 28th until Wednesday May 2nd. Please do not email me during these days. I will be meeting a friend in a remote location and I badly need this time off so, at the
Dear friends, For a few years I used a PO Box in Edgewater, Florida but after having an almost infinite amount of frustrating problems with the gross incompetence of the USPS, I have decided to ditch it. This is the address I used in the past: The Saker PO Box 711 Edgewater Florida 32132-0711 USA PLEASE DO NOT USE IT ANYMORE!!! Instead, please send all snail mail to me at
Dear friends, First, my sincere thanks to all those who have sent their contribution to my work. This winter fundraiser is now over and even though it had a difficult start, I want to thank those who replied to my appeal and made it a success: your help is absolutely crucial and it will make a huge difference for me and my work on this blog. Second, big news: my
Wow, Eric Zuesses’ article really elicited a fury the like of which I have never seen, at least so far. Right now there are seventy-fire (75!) intercepted comments sitting in my “trash bin” to review and either clear or terminate. And, just to add even more misery to an overworked Saker (and exhausted moderators!), I am about to post another article tomorrow which will, no doubt, infuriate the “other side”
