Cyrill Vatomsky, Where All Politics Are Global

At last, I got off my behind and actually did what I promised: I am posting this podcast of the latest Embassy of The New World Order radio show on KSCO AM 1080.
To get to the podcast, follow the link with the title of the article and then click on listen.

And as I promised elsewhere I talked a bit about the The New Republic column by Michael Idov. I tried to put some of Idov's  observations  tp make a point that although he is writing about Russia, he in a sense is not. He describes a late feudal society and lots of features of contemporary Russia are universal. Some Russians love to talk about how unique it is and how it always takes its own way. Too bad most of the time it is a detour.

Cusiously this article created quite a flurry of posts in English Language Russia-related blogosphere and opinions are quite different. Some predictably claim Russophobia, some liked it for its lack of corny  Cold War era slogans.

So i used the article as a trampoline to satisfy my own propensity for tangents ranging from Chinese manufacturing to Friedrich Barbarossa to Felipe Calderon and his meek attempts to revitalize Pemex. All of that by the way came from the Idov's article.

Predictably, when issue of globalization is addressed (and I did talk about the Columbian Free  Trade deal in the very end) some jump to talk about immigration. Illegal immigration is a painful subject int eh US especially among the talk radio population. So I got some of that as well.

As always, this is just a quick note, not even a summary of what the show was about. I thought it was a good one, so give a listen if you have time and interest.

Truly.