Tag Archives: politics

Power, Purpose, and Permanence

universe_of_stars If we want to avoid wasting all our efforts, we must understand certain things.

American Dissident Voices broadcast of August 1, 2015

by Kevin Alfred Strom

AS EPICTETUS said, “Nature hath given each of us one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.” I read and listen a great deal more than I write or speak.

One thing that impresses me forcefully from my reading in the last few years — … Read the rest of this article

Putin and Snowden

Nixon then and the NSA today

by Kevin Alfred Strom

VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS offered Edward Snowden asylum in Russia only on condition that he stop harming the interests of “our partners,” the US, by continuing to talk. Leaving aside the fact that Snowden may have already done all the significant talking he can do anyway, here are my thoughts:

I do think Putin’s playing a word game here, trying to make it sound like he’s not opposing every move of the Washington regime — which he … Read the rest of this article

My Political Education

kas_Kevin_Alfred_Strom_000121by Kevin Alfred Strom (pictured)
American Dissident Voices program of June 19, 1993

I WAS BORN on a Summer morning in 1956, in Anchorage, Territory of Alaska. My parents had moved to Alaska some five years earlier, shortly after they were married, since that was where my father, an Air Force Master Sergeant, was assigned. I was my parent’s first child.

Both my father and mother were of Norwegian descent, hard-working farm kids from Minnesota born during the Depression. They … Read the rest of this article