Gaither Stewart’s The Trojan Spy [Punto Press, 2012] takes the thriller genre an important step forward, advancing it from the work of his predecessors John le Carré and Robert Ludlum. Le Carré and Ludlum rebelled against the conventions of the classic spy thrillers, which assumed that we’re the good guys who are under attack by bad guys so evil that we’re justified in bending the rules to save ourselves from them. In that world, lies, deceit, sabotage, and even murder are sometimes necessary to defend peace, justice, and the American (or Western) Way against (pick one, depending on when the book was written) Nazis, communists, or terrorists.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE Speaking of the innocence of Myshkin, the protagonist of Dostoevsky’s novel, The Idiot,…
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Gaither Stewart: “We need brave young people to carry the message of real change to the heartland”
by shorty12 minutes readGAITHER STEWART—I have attended demonstrations in Italy over several years. Signs and flags galore. Flags with slogans. But there too the orators were major on the places and squares. Yet one counted on the effect of the signs and flags marching through the streets under people hanging out the windows. The major theme for years was anti-war, anti-Vietnam war.
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GAITHER STEWART—Ron Ridenour’s book, The Russian Peace Threat, about these Russians is destined to endure and inform future readers, writers and researchers about both what has been reported and what truly took place in the one hundred years from the 1917 Russian Revolution until the eruption of the distinct harbingers of the collapse of the US empire in the early twenty-first century. Events often just seem to happen, caught up in the swirl of history. But still, we try to interpret them and to understand.
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THE RUSSIANS: Native land of enduring patience
29 minutes readGAITHER STEWART—I try not to stray from the subject of who these modern day Russians are but this minor and limited incursion into the complex story of the origins of Slavs and their state is necessary in order to know what we are talking about. Suffice it to say here that the Kievan state has the place in Russian history as does, say, the thirteen original colonies in the formation of the USA. An important and influential world capital in those times appears today as a second-class, boring puppet city-state controlled by a failing and waning US world power, a power with no concept of the significance of history.