Tsarist Russia

But there was a classic feature of pogroms in Tsarist Russia, which matches what happened yesterday in Cairo, and which wasn't captured by misleading headlines, that talked about "clashes between Mubarak supporters and anti-government protesters": complicity of authorities responsible for security with a premeditated attack by an armed mob against people who were not armed.

Robert Naiman: Where Was Obama Amidst All the Violence? Robert Naiman 2011

The scale of destruction wasn't anything like the most notorious pogroms of the late Tsarist period, although the word "pogrom" came into use in Tsarist Russia much earlier and originally described attacks in which few if any people were killed.

Robert Naiman: Where Was Obama Amidst All the Violence? Robert Naiman 2011

Tsarist Russia was knocking at the doors of Afghanistan and the Great Game had already begun.

Saad Khan: Pakistan Derailed 2010

An American political scientist talks in terms reminiscent of Tsarist Russia.

Professor Mearsheimer and His Useful Jews Daniel Balson 2010

The illiberal political condition of Tsarist Russia enabled cultural arbiters to define minorities any way they pleased.

Professor Mearsheimer and His Useful Jews Daniel Balson 2010

Though they were Jews whose grandparents had been murdered in the pogroms of Tsarist Russia, they refused to go to Israel, their ancestral homeland, because Palestinians remain oppressed.

Mike Elk: On the Death of My Grandfather, Solidarity, and Hope 2010

I believe the first to allege that Jews and Freemasons were agents of a gigantic world conspiracy was an unbalanced and unpleasant character in Tsarist Russia who, to curry favour with ruling circles, wrote a pamphlet to that effect about 1860.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Similar to the stories told of the Muslim warriors fighting against Tsarist Russia in the 19th century, many of the Afghan fighters who defeated the Soviets were pious Muslims defending their people against foreign invasion.

Hedieh Mirahmadi: How Obama Can Split the Taliban 2009

Neither does she know such words as Sakhalin, that is the island on which there was the Tsarist Russia main hard labor camp.

In Memoriam of the Warrior-Brother Fallen 2009

I believe the first to allege that Jews and Freemasons were agents of a gigantic world conspiracy was an unbalanced and unpleasant character in Tsarist Russia who, to curry favour with ruling circles, wrote a pamphlet to that effect about 1860.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009