Dispatches

by Susan Katz Keating Yes or no; Да или нет? Did a Russian assassination team inflict the mysterious Havana Syndrome on American targets, as reputable journalists allege; or has an innocent unit been framed, as Moscow would have us believe? To anyone looking for answers, here is one Red flag …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating What next? Will the protest movement form nationwide soviets? Will they establish a Cheka, to punish and eliminate “enemies of the people?”  It started with petty acts of vandalism that could be dismissed as random mischief. But the anti-Tesla movement has grown into something far more …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating My inbox is overflowing. Following a contentious campaign season, and robust changes in swing with the new administration, some of my correspondents fear that the U.S. will implode. One reader, “Freaked Out,” writes: “I saw the story about you in The New Yorker magazine, and you …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The SVR did not respond to a request to explain what a cranberry movie is. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has taken a swipe at the Central Intelligence Agency’s spy recruitment videos, and has created its own counter-video, asking “true American patriots” to reach out and touch …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The work has been called the most dangerous form of journalism. Amid my daily influx of emails, text messages, and phone calls, I frequently am hit up by people who want to go downrange under my name. They approach me with variants on the following actual …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating UPDATE: Sources inside the Pentagon report that as of Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, the spot that once held Milley’s painting has been smoothed over to show no trace of the portrait having been there. The drywall has been patched and painted, so that an observer would …

A statement does not equal truth. Even when the person who makes the statement then dies in a spectacular fashion. COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Much chatter has been circulating about Friday’s episode of The Shawn Ryan Show, featuring material allegedly written by suspected Cybertruck bomber Matt Livelsberger. A guest on …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating Amid the celebrations, looting, and horror stories that follow the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a powerful force could emerge from the chaos – if it hasn’t already been destroyed. If Assad preserved his files, and left them behind when he fled Syria, the …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The images are so gruesome I won’t post them. But they’ve been flooding my inbox, as if I didn’t already know that men are getting chewed up on the battlefields of Ukraine and Russia. These particular images come from a social media account that claims to …

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating What happened this weekend when a man was arrested outside a Donald Trump rally in California? Claims vary. The local sheriff says his officers thwarted an assassination attempt against Trump. The man who was arrested says he meant no harm, and was a member of the …