James Brooke
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Lenox native James Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for The New York Times, Bloomberg and Voice of America.With two Russian deaths for each birth, Russia’s population now shrinks by 1 million people a year, according to figures by Rosstat, the Federal State Statistics Service.
Eagle columnist James Brooke writes: "With western commitment seeming firm, analysts compare Russia’s military outlook today to the Soviet Union’s debacle in Afghanistan in the late 1980s."
Eagle columnist James Brooke writes: "Destroying dams in war is not new."
In an echo of this not-so-distant past, Russian soldiers now target churches in Ukraine, damaging or destroying houses of worship at the rate of two churches a day, reports the Kyiv-based Institute for Religious Freedom.
Columnist James Brooke writes: "Clipping the wings of Himars rocket launchers sent to Ukraine, the Biden administration made hardware and software fixes to prevent rockets from reaching Russia. American officials apparently forgot that in the Soviet era, Ukrainian engineers designed and built intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of hitting New York."
Crossing the Gulf of Dnipro in inflatable speedboats, Ukrainian special forces are fighting to reopen Ukraine’s river gate to the Black Sea, a…
Columnist James Brooke writes: "Many people know about the Holodomor, or death by hunger. From 1932-33, the Kremlin carried out an artificial famine that killed about four million Ukrainians. Now, with the first snows falling, Ukrainians face a new threat — 'Kholodomor,' or death by cold."
Russia’s army is being defined by successive defeats in the “three K’s”: Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson.
Eagle columnist James Brooke writes: "After a razor-thin victory of less than two percentage points, Brazil’s veteran left-wing politician Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will become president on Jan. 1 of a country deeply cut by a left-right divide. But for Brazil, an increasingly mercantilist nation, foreign policy debates stop at the warm waters of the South Atlantic."
