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Walter C. Uhler is an independent scholar and freelance writer whose work has been published in numerous publications, including The Nation, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Military History, the Moscow Times and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also is President of the Russian-American International Studies Association (RAISA).
SHARE Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Incompetent Journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer Slandered Joe Paterno
Like it did when it reported false assertions by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the media has reported the false assertions contained in the grand jury presentment as fact and, in reaction to those false assertions, has slandered Joe Paterno.
(24 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 5, 2012 Hitting Penn State's Board of Trustees Where it Hurts
The movement to peacefully topple Penn State's Board of Trustees has gained momentum, especially with the announcement of a "Rally for Resignation" to take place on Sept. 15th. Anorther way to get the attention of the BOT is to threaten to change previous plans to contribute to the university.
(67 comments) SHARE Monday, October 1, 2012 Did Mike McQueary Commit Perjury?
There's a material difference in Mike McQueary's sworn testimony before his email of November 15, 2011 was published and after it was published. The difference might constitute perjury.
(38 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 6, 2014 Did Right-Wing Protesters Hire Snipers to Kill Protesters and Police at Maidan?
Evidence indicates that protesters in Ukraine hired snipers whose murders could be blamed on the government of Viktor Yanukovych. Rather than rushing to recognize such people as the new rulers in Ukraine, the US, EU and Russia must investigate. In the process, Vladimir Putin's decision to send troops to the Crimea might be seen in a new light.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 19, 2012 The Freeh Report and Joe Paterno
The Philadelphia Inquirer continued its record of shoddy journalism with its coverage of the Freeh Report
(63 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 18, 2015 Seeking the Truth about Ukraine
Richard Sakwa has written the most judicious and comprehensive book about the recent events in Ukraine to date.
SHARE Tuesday, March 26, 2019 Sergei Vasilievich Utechin's "You Tube" Reflections on Isaiah Berlin
1n 1997 Walter C. Uhler and George Enteen interviewed Russian historian S.V. Utechin. In the initial interview Utechin discussed his encounters with the reknowned philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Now, those discusiions hav been published on You Tube
(23 comments) SHARE Monday, August 27, 2012 Another Media Clown Show Stupifies Minds About Penn State
Three days ago, Philadelphia's NBC TV 10 6:00 PM News aired a broadcast, actually a clown show under the guise of a news report, about Penn State that could not but further stupify the public about the Sandusky scandal.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 1, 2014 Military Victories by Ukraine's Separatists Cause Heads to Explode at the New York Times
The New York Times, like much of the knee-jerk anti-Russia West, is in a panic, due to a string of victories by the separatists in Eastern Ukraine. As a consequence, cunning, deceit and derangement have become substitutes for responsible journalism.
(31 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 18, 2015 The New York Times Sinks to a New Journalistic Low in its Reporting on Ukraine
Either out of Russophobic deceit or incompetence, the Times seems determined to deny that murders by snipers were committed by anti-government protesters, probably with the help of the CIA, that sparked the coup in Kiev that overturned Viktor Yanukovych's democratically elected government.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 23, 2012 The Tide Begins to Turn on the Sandusky Scandal
With the counteroffensive launched by former Penn State President Graham Spanier and his laywers yesterday, the tide has begun to turn in the Sandusky scandal. John Ziegler's hilarious animation -- which deserves to go viral -- shows just how absurd Freeh's allegation of a cover-up by Paterno et. al. actually is.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 20, 2007 Truth, Lies, Errors and Bullshit About Iraq and Iran
The thought provoking book, On Bullshit, by Professor Emeritus Harry G. Frankfurt provides a perspective from which to evaluate bullshit flung by the Bush administration, the neocons and the mainstream media.
(6 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Examining Jesus' Passion through the Crucible of Doubt
As Good Friday approaches, it is appropriate to examine the errors and contradictions that undermine the New Testament's account of the Passion narrative.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, March 14, 2014 The Hypocritical United States of Amnesia and Russia
Due to its amnesia, Americans forget the many violations of national sovereignty committed by their government, as well as NATO's and the EU's relentless expansionism that now threatens to encircle Russia. All they see, alas, is Putin's interference in the Crimea.
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 3, 2022 The Best Analysis Yet About the War in Ukraine
As a long-time student of Russia, I've attached an article from today's Johnson's Russia List that most accurately captures the origin and current situation in Russia's war against Ukraine. The author argues that the war began on February 18th, not with Russia's invasion on February 24th.
(38 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 30, 2015 Appropriating Russia's History to Bolster Ukrainian Nationalism
The celebrations in Moscow and Kiev of the one thousand year anniversary of the death of Prince Vladimir (who brought Christianity to Russia)provided an occasion to note how Ukraine's leaders appropriate Russia's history to bolster Ukrainian nationalism.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 30, 2007 William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen
In post-war Germany, the former editor of the Nazi paper, Das Schwarze Korps, was put on trial and convicted for his earlier pro-war propaganda. In Bush's Amerika, a propagandist for our illegal, immoral war against Iraq lands a job at the New York Times.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, August 10, 2020 Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part three: The Pandemic)
Part three of my review of Mary Trump's book attempts to substantiate her suspicion that uncle Donald possesses a "dependent personality disorder." Its hallmarks include an inability to make decisions, refusal to take responsibility, discomfort with being alone, and the going to extreme lengths to obtain support from others.
(7 comments) SHARE Monday, November 5, 2012 Thinking about Racism as the Election Draws Near
As recent survey by three reputable scholars found that Republicans far exceed Democrats or Independents when tested for indications of explicit antiblack racism. But, then, racism and conservatism have long been linked in American history.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 24, 2014 Why Russia Probably will not Bomb Kiev's Forces in Eastern Ukraine
Although President George H. W. Bush set a precedent when he ordered the bombing of Panama, which he justified in part by claiming a need to protect the lives of Americans living there, it is unlikely that President Putin will bomb Kiev's coup regime forces in eastern Ukraine to protect the many Russians living there. Russia is not the mad bomber that America has become.
SHARE Friday, July 25, 2014 The West's Hysterical Pseudo-Environment, Operation RYAN, and World War III
The world nearly suffered a preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviet Union in 1983, after incessant hostile rhetoric by the U.S. reached its peak with the downing of KAL-007. It convinced Soviet leaders that U.S-NATO exercise in November was a cover for an actual preemptive nuclear strike.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, July 29, 2020 Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part One)
This is part one of a three part review of Mary Trump's book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. It provides concrete evidence to support Ms. Trump's claims about Donald's sociopathy.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 2, 2020 Destroying Our Country From Within: Trump's Assault on America (Part Two)
This is part two of my review of Mary Trump's book. Its focus is on substantiating Ms. Trump's observation of uncle Donald's learning disability, as well as his refusal to learn whenever the presentation of new information threatens to humiliate him.
(36 comments) SHARE Friday, July 27, 2012 The Freeh Report, Joe Paterno and NCAA Sanctions
The facts in the Freeh Report concerning the investigation of Jerry Sandusky in 1998do not support the irresponsible conclusions reached by the authors of that report.
SHARE Monday, April 22, 2013 American Militarism: Part One (Rachel Maddow)
On April 14th Rachel Maddow spoke at the University of Pennsylvania to describe and decry the many reasons why war has become so extremely easy to initiate in the United States.
SHARE Sunday, October 21, 2012 Mendacious Mitt Politicizes Benghazi
As he demonstrated by politicizing the tragedy in Benghazi, Mitt Romney shares George W. Bush's contempt for facts and truth. That's why he shouldn't be elected to become our next Commander in Chief
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 5, 2007 Hiroshima, Nagasaki and America's Immoral Addiction to Nuclear Weapons
"On at least 30 occasions since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every US president has prepared and/or threatened to initiate nuclear war during international crises, confrontations, and wars -- primarily in the Third World."
(4 comments) SHARE Saturday, July 19, 2014 Who's Responsible for Shooting Down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17?
Although the mainstream news media remains absorbed in the anti-Russia, anti-separatist narrative propagated by the White House, less than bullet-proof evidence has emerged to indicate that the shoot down of Flight MH17 was a false flag operation.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 8, 2020 Trump, Hannity, and America's Long National Nightmare
Part two of my review of Brian Stelter's new book, titled, HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, turns its attention to the reciprocal brown nosing by Trump and Sean Hannity to energize the cult supporting both Trump and Fox News -- to America's detriment.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, April 17, 2008 Allegations of "Elitism" Also Brought Down America's Founding Fathers
Allegations of "elitism" against America's Founding Fathers sent the country down the path of commerce and personal gain. Similar attacks on Barack Obama appear designed to defend this questionable status quo.
SHARE Monday, May 7, 2007 George Kennan vs. Bush, Cheney, Rove, Kristol, Limbaugh, O'Reilly and Coulter
In 1953, George Kennan delivered a courageous speech at the Univeristy of Notre Dame, which challenged the high flying McCarthyites. It remains equally applicable when confronting Bush, Cheney, Rove, the Neocons and the media McCarthyites today.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 12, 2020 My Invitation to Let President Trump Know What I Think of Him
Today, I -- a liberal Democrat -- was invited to complete a fundraising poll inquiring as to what I think about President Trump. It reminded me of the time when Republicans made the mistake of inviting me to George W. Bush's President's Dinner in 2007. In both instances, I was given a direct line to campaign officials for stating what was on my mind.
SHARE Thursday, April 3, 2008 "Symbolic Racism" and the "US of KKK A"
My brief, two-part, introduction to "Racism 101" should persuade you that Rev. Jeremiah Wright's utterance about present-day racism is no more outrageous than are the smug, self-serving beliefs of symbolic racists who maintain that "discrimination is no longer an obstacle for blacks, that their current lack of upward social mobility is caused by their unwillingness to work hard, that the
SHARE Friday, August 26, 2022 Flawed Estimates of Russian and Ukrainian Military Casualties
The "fog of war" in Ukraine has been compounded by biased reporting about military casualty rates in Russia and Ukraine, rendering a realistic assessment of he state of the war there problematic.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, November 12, 2012 Fox News, Benghazi and President Reagan
Fox News deals in misinformation and lies. It misled it viewers during the election campaign and it is misleading them on Benghazi. What they won't do, however, is compare the attack on Benghazi with the three attacks on the U.S. in Beirut -- in 18 months! -- during President Reagan's watch.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 8, 2014 Examining the Flashpoints in Ukraine
The crisis in Ukraine, in the final analysis, boils down to Russia's willingness to go to war rather than allow NATO forces and weapons in its back yard. Americans should understand, given that their leaders once threatened nuclear war over the issue of Russian missiles in Cuba.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 15, 2009 Legacies? How About "Good Riddance to the Swine?"
Tony Auth's political cartoon of 14 January is worth a thousand words about the political swine, George Bush and Dick Cheney. They deserve to be cast on the trash heap of history
SHARE Thursday, July 14, 2022 The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order
This is part two of my review of Gary Gerstle's book, The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, and specifically addrsses the reason for its rise and fall, as well as its harmful impact on many Americans.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 3, 2020 One Big Hoax: Donald Trump and Fox News (Part One)
This is part one of a two part review essay of Brian Stelter's new book, HOAX: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 2, 2011 What Say Ye, Bum and Scum, Today?
Birthers, neocons and Bush/Cheney rogues all criticize President Obama. I ask: What Say Ye Today?
SHARE Thursday, March 27, 2008 Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101"
Rev. Jeremiah Wright had nothing on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thomas Jefferson when he responded to America's despicable history of slavery and racism by proclaiming "God Damn America."
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 14, 2009 Igor Sutyagin and I. F. Stone: Spies?
Neither Igor Sutyagin nor I. F. Stone were spies, notwithstanding the former's incarceration in Russia and the smearing of the latter in a new book, Spies.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 23, 2013 Republicans and the Iraq War: Ten Years Later
Ten years later, a large majority of Republicans remain clueless about the heinous war crimes committed by their party's leader -- George W. Bush.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, March 22, 2010 A Great Achievement for a Decent, Civilized United States of America
The impending Health Care law is a singulary historic accomplishment for the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. It also represents a stunning political defeat for Republicans.
SHARE Monday, September 23, 2013 Fifty Years after the August 28, 1963, March on Washington
Over the past fifty years Americans have forgotten the main objective of the March on Washington. A new book by Professor William Jones restores that forgotten history.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 The Myth of McCain's Impeccable National Security Credentials
As long as the mainstream news media continue to fawn over John McCain and portray his interventionism not as the radicalism it is, but as evidence of strong credibility on national security, they enhance his chances of becoming President and, thus, the chances of more Americans perishing needlessly on foreign soil.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2007 The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq, Part Two: Incompetence
The criminality and immorality of the Bush/Cheney regime's invasion of Iraq were compounded by the incompetence with which the invasion and occupation were conducted.
SHARE Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Gingrich Wins in the "Sahara of the Bozart"
The applause of Newt Gingrich's symbolic racism by Republicans in South Carolina demonstrates that racism is alive and well in the South
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, August 20, 2007 Blaming All Americans for Bush's Debacle in Iraq?
In an otherwise thoughtful article about Bush's debacle in Iraq, former Assistant Secretary of State James Dobbins recommends that "Above all, Americans should accept that the entire nation has, to one degree or another, failed in Iraq."
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, December 3, 2007 Press Secretary Dana Perino: Spinning Lies for the Butcher of Baghdad
It was Ms. Perino, who, on November 30th, placed her own humanity in a lock box when she offered journalist Helen Thomas the following lie: "To suggest that we, the United States, are killing innocent people is just absurd and very offensive."
SHARE Wednesday, May 8, 2013 American Militarism: Part Two (Charles Krauthammer)
In order to divert blame from the Bush administration, the neoconservatives and himself for the illegal, immoral invasion of Iraq, Charles Krauthammer has deceitfully placed blame on President Obama losing Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 28, 2008 The Psychopath's "State of the Union": Disguising America's Deep Humiliation
"Nobody wants to be dependent on an America that talks loudly about how indispensable it is, yet stages coups, makes threats, overthrows governments, democratic or not, and kills many of the world's poorest people, to the amusement of some generals." [pp. 388-89]. Such is the state of our union.
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, August 10, 2007 Lying Again, This Time About Iran's Nuclear Program
To his long list of lies about public matters, itself an impeachable offence, Presdient Bush recently added a new lie -- about Iran's nuclear program.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 11, 2008 By Playing its Iraq Card, Russia Exposes McCain's Poor National Security Judgment
The Taliban in Afghanistan, al Qaeda in Pakistan and, now, the Russians in Georgia, have exposed the strategic stupidity of McCain's obsession with keeping most of America's military forces tied down in Iraq. One can only speculate which country will next play the Iraq card to America's detriment.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 25, 2007 The Global Impact of Bush's War Crimes in Iraq: King Midas in Reverse
Were we merely limiting ourselves to the catastrophes that has bedeviled both the United States and Iraq as a consequence of Bush's war, we'd be forced to conclude that Bush's national security policy has the touch of King Midas in reverse.
Unfortunately, as serious pre-war scholars and critics feared and predicted, Bush's King Midas touch in reverse has extended far beyond Iraq and the United States.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 17, 2008 For Bush and McCain, Iraqis are merely "ropes for American dirty laundry"
Like the quislings in the Green Zone that the Bush administration installed via so-called "democratic elections," the Awakening forces are coming to be seen as mere "ropes for American dirty laundry." Not just the dirty laundry of Bush's sordid invasion and McCain's myopic cheerleading, but also the dirty laundry of American Exceptionalism.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 8, 2008 Is the United States of America Addicted to War?
Based upon both the number of wars involving America, as well as the number of its unnecessary wars, one must ask whether America is addicted to war.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 21, 2008 Barack in Iraq
Having foolishly raised expectations to justify their invasion of Iraq, Bush and McCain have their reputations at stake. Which is why they cannot define success there as Barack Obama has defined it and why they have neither a strategy for success nor strategy for leaving Iraq. All they have is the surge (a mere tactic) and hope for a miracle.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 12, 2008 Addressing America's "Deeper Malignancies"
According to Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's goal after September 11 was to address the deeper malignancies of the Middle East. Given America's illegal; immoral invasion of Iraq, a more pressing question is: "When will the rest of the world unite to "address the deeper malignancies" of the United States?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Obama's Populism versus McCain's Free Trade
Even before the ethics questions just raised by the New York Times, John McCain was hardly the presidential candidate to roll back widespread corporate socialism.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, May 5, 2008 America's Occupation Trumps the "Surge" and Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Manual
As Professor Truman Cross has concluded: It is a foolish and disastrous assumption that the government of the United States should learn how to fight anti-colonial wars against peoples who will keep fighting until the Americans and all other foreigners are gone--and then get down to the business of fighting for whatever territory is up for grabs.
SHARE Sunday, August 26, 2007 Iraq, Iran and the Moral Rot Infecting the Soul of America
Walter Lippmann said it best: "No moral code, as such, will enable [a person] to know whether he is exercising his moral faculties on a real and an important event. For effective virture, as socrates pointed out long ago, is knowledge; and a code of right and wrong must await upon a perception of the true and false."
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, June 30, 2008 Barack Obama: Don't go "Wobbly" on Iraq!
Recent flip-flops by Barack Obama bring into question his campaign pledge to "immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq ...and have all of our combat brigades out of Iraq within 16 months" of his inaugeration. Obama supporters need to assure that he doesn't go wobbly on that pledge.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Crackpot Christianity, Part III: Bush and the Third Great Awakening
Crackpot Christianity, as represented by Messrs. Falwell, Robertson, Dobson and Kennedy has suffered a steep intellectual decline since the days of Christian theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
(19 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 29, 2008 To Understand Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Recall Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Fortunately Rev. Wright does not live in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Soviet Union of the early 1970s. Otherwise he would have found himself banished from the country, not just the political campaign, for the moral thunderbolts he hurled at the state.
SHARE Tuesday, June 3, 2008 Scott McClellan's Residual Affection for Bush (the Psychopath?)
One shouldn't be surprised to learn that Bush held fast to the possibility of achieving greatness through war. Scott McClellan has confirmed Bush's opinion that "only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness."
SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2007 Journalistic Weeds Blighting America's Political Landscape
When Ben Stein argues that ethical investors must not shun military contractors, he emulates the journalistic weeds, such as "crabgrass" Bill O'Reilly, "pigweed" Rush Limbaugh and "creeping jenny" Ann Coulter, who have blighted America's political landscape.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 12, 2007 Earth to Bush: "The Chaos in Iraq You Now Decry was Caused By You!"
President Bush retold three lies during his July 12th press conference devoted to the Interim Benchmark Assessment Report. He also had the gall to complain about the chaos al Qaida is causing in Iraq!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Bush's Campaign of Lies to Conceal War Crimes
Bush's lies about Iraq leading to war with Iraq and lies about torture leading to the continuation of torture prompt logical people around the world to suspect that his lies about Iran virtually guarantee an American attack.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 Certain Americans
Certain Americans spoil the country's political landscape, but are courted by cynical Republicans and molified by condescending feckless Democrats. Thus, our war without end.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Senator Rick Santorum: Poster Boy for Obnoxious and Desperate Conservatism
Santorum revalidates the timeless truth spoken by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrel."
Santorum knows even less about foreign affairs and national security than he does about the traditional family - thus validating Jose Ortega y Gasset's timeless truth about the "learned ignoramus."
SHARE Thursday, July 26, 2007 Bush's Missile Defense vs. My Erector Set
My erector set will provide but a slightly less reliable missle defense system than the totally unworkable Ground-based Midcourse Defense system currently deployed by the Bush administration -- but at a greatly reduced cost!