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The Bolivarian Revolution Has Staying Power
•�May 15, 2020
•�200 Words •�45 Comments
I am not an uncritical supporter of Venezuela. Asserting sovereignty is good, at least for Venezuelans - the following, presumably, is not: Financing the budget by printing money Asset stripping your state oil company and replacing everyone competent there with cronies. Ad hoc nationalizations of supermarkets. All of which led to hyperinflation and a GDP... Read More
Venezuela Events
•�April 30, 2019
•�100 Words •�269 Comments
Personally, I have a feeling that Maduro will make it to the end of the year. PredictIt odds are hovering at 50/50. Worse than 70% a month ago, but better than the 30% they gave this January. The main development since January has been a collapse of oil production, but there is good reason to... Read More
Open Thread 70
•�March 12, 2019
•�1,000 Words •�256 Comments
Great to see Daniel Chieh check in, however briefly. RIP Guillaume Faye. I haven't read any of his books, but I really dig the aesthetics associated with his work. FWIW, I think Solar Imperialist has the best archeofuturism imagery on Twitter today. *** More notable posts since the last Open Thread in case you missed... Read More
Venezuela Aid Scam
•�February 24, 2019
•�400 Words •�59 Comments
As I have made clear, I am not any sort of fan of Maduro/Caballo's regime. When you have the empty shelves of the late Soviet Union, the inflation rate of Zimbabwe, and the murder rate of Honduras, it's safe to say that things have gone wrong somewhere. Nor am I blaming the US for it.... Read More
Shadows of the Past in Venezuela
•�January 24, 2019
•�1,800 Words •�108 Comments
Caracas, Venezuela. One curious thing about Venezuela that few people seem to have remarked upon is that Chavez and Maduro are not really all that hardcore about their class war. The latter assumed the powers of Congress in 2017, but didn't send armed men to round up the querulous parliamentarians. They continued to yack and... Read More
Map of Maduro Recognition
•�January 24, 2019
•�100 Words •�38 Comments
Source: Wikipedia. China has finally come out (functionally) in support of Maduro. With tens of billions of invested in Venezuela, it has more absolutely (if not relatively) at stake there than Russia. It is good to see China taking a more assertive stance. The EU hasn't overtly supported Guaido, but it has called for new... Read More
Venezuela Thread
•�January 23, 2019
•�100 Words •�88 Comments
I suppose we will now see whether the failings of half-assed socialism and the tried and tested techniques of color revolution by way of Uncle Sam will win out over Cuban intelligence officers and a nascent social credit system by way of Uncle Chang. Idiot Sechin has trouble getting back money even now (unlike the... Read More
A Few Myths About Chavez's Venezuela
•�March 9, 2013
•�1,000 Words •�6 Comments
Okay, I promise this will be the last post on the matter. But some of the tropes that come up time and time again in coverage of Chavez's legacy, from neocons and faux-leftists alike, just have to be addressed for me to rest easy. Note that this is NOT meant to be comprehensive; just some... Read More
Samuel Moncada, Venezuela's Ambassador In London, Personally Responds to Emails
•�March 8, 2013
•�400 Words
Not sure you can say that of many national ambassadors! This is what I wrote to this email for expressing condolences on Chavez's passing: Here is his response: Incidentally, Mr. Moncada has an impressive academic pedigree, with a PhD in h
Hugo Chávez Shuffles Off This Mortal Coil, But the Light of the Bolivarian Revolution He Ignited Will Endure Forever
•�March 5, 2013
•�900 Words •�2 Comments
We all suspected this would come sooner or later. As it happens, Chavez struggled heroically against his cancer, confounding the intensive Schadenfreude and concerted death wishes of his loathsome detractors month after arduous month. But this is what you can expect to get when you look out for your own countrymen and stand up to... Read More
Russia's Budget Is Getting More Transparent
•�January 24, 2013
•�1,000 Words •�3 Comments
Not often that you see Russia in some color other than bloody red on a world map of corruption or institutional quality. But according to the Open Budget Index (2012 results), the Russian budget is actually pretty transparent as far as these things go. Of the major countries, only the UK (88), France (83), and... Read More
The Flight from Reason - the West's Cold War Against Russia
•�October 23, 2012
•�700 Words •�50 Comments
My latest contribution to the US-Russia.org Expert Discussion Panel this one focusing on whether the West foregoes "incalculable benefits" by continuing the Cold War. Unlike previous Panels, on which I aimed for balance, here I make no apologies at pointing a finger straight to where I believe the blame belongs: I recently began reading Martin... Read More
A Quick Note On Venezuelan Elections
•�October 7, 2012
•�100 Words •�16 Comments
Chavez won. The comprador candidate got sent packing. As, indeed, 80% of the pre-elections polls predicted. I fully expect the usual democratist presstitutes to cry foul in the coming days. Not because the Venezuelan elections were unfair - though they will doubtless be claimed to be so by the organs of imperialist propaganda like the... Read More
In Which I Opine On Various Matters of Great Importance
•�August 19, 2011
•�1,000 Words •�33 Comments
A collection of news stories and my take on them from the past month or so. 1. Bribes are growing quickly in Russia. Their average sizes, that is. It was reported by the MVD that they increased by 5x from a year earlier to $10,000. The usual Russophobe suspects wasted no time declaring this to... Read More
Russia's Brain Drain Abates, Just As Western Media Starts Hyping It
•�June 25, 2011
•�1,500 Words •�43 Comments
Everything's going badly in Russia. Medvedev's reforms are failing. The economy isn't growing. It is moving from authoritarianism to totalitarianism (in stark contrast to civilized Western countries), and the motto "We cannot live like this any longer!" once again becomes an article of faith in the land - or well, at least among "the blogs... Read More
Corruption Realities Index 2010
•�May 25, 2011
•�1,600 Words •�20 Comments
The most famous corruption indicator is Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. Its only problem is that the perceptions of their self-appointed experts have nothing to do with reality! As I explained in previous posts on this blog, it suffers from numerous flaws. Part of it has to do with its questionable methodology: using changing mixes... Read More
Russia Arming the Rest, and US Views On This
•�December 5, 2010
•�3,200 Words •�18 Comments
Another Wikileaks cable - a secret one, not merely confidential - from our Caucasus ethnologist and bestest bud at the State Department, William Burns. Dated October 2007, it describes America's perception of Russia's global arms trade and emphasizes its concerns that many of its partners are "rogue" or "anti-American" states like Syria, Iran and Venezuela.... Read More
Arab Rearmament & US MIC Price Gouging
•�September 14, 2010
•�700 Words •�8 Comments
Sorry for not posting on either of my blogs for almost a week now and being slow on responding to the emails. I've been rediscovering the pleasures of old-fashioned book reading after purchasing a Kindle. I'm very happy with it. When faced between the choice of surfing the interwebs or reading a paper book, the... Read More
Victimized Venezuela III: Myths and Reality
•�April 19, 2009
•�2,900 Words •�10 Comments
At the recent Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, two great leaders, Obama and Chavez, shook hands in what could be the symbolic first gesture of reconciliation. Treasonous neocons will no doubt rush to condemn this as yet another limp-wristed and unilateral concession to "America's enemies", reminding their listeners that Chavez closed down opposition media,... Read More
Hubris in the Heartland
•�February 17, 2009
•�3,000 Words
The Western MSM (mainstream media) was abuzz the last few weeks about how Obama's apparent extension of a hand to Russia did not make them willing to unclench their fist, citing the closure of the Manas airbase in Kyrgyzstan. This was linked to Russia's announcement of 150mn $ in aid and 2bn $ of credit... Read More
Da Russophile, a Year On
•�January 9, 2009
•�1,400 Words •�11 Comments
As of today, it's been exactly one year since I started the Da Russophile blog. Although I have been aware of hostile or condescending Western attitudes towards Russia for a long time, reflected in its mass media, I was finally provoked into joining battle by a particularly annoying and dishonest 'editorial' on the La Russophobe... Read More
Victimized Venezuela II: Beware of Schadenfreude
•�December 1, 2008
•�1,300 Words •�1 Comment
Much like Putin's Russia, Venezuela has been unfairly victimized by Washington's foreign policy elite and savaged by the Western MSM, which have caricatured Chávez as a run of the mill Latin American populist strongman. In a previous post on this matter, I drew attention to the work of Mark Weisbrot at the CEPR, who has... Read More
Victimized Venezuela
•�July 17, 2008
•�1,800 Words •�4 Comments
Chavez is frequently shafted in the Western media, who allege that the only reason the Venezuelan economy is doing well is because of record oil prices. This is not to mention all the invective hurled against the Chavez administration for its supposed disrespect for democracy, from refusing to renew the licenses of TV stations support... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.