Larisa Alexandrovna

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Larisa Alexandrovna (born December 7, 1971 in Odessa, Ukraine) is a journalist, poet, and essayist. She is particularly known for her reporting with John Byrne for The Raw Story. Part of the Neo-Modernist movement and feminist thinker, Alexandrovna uses her patronymic as her pen name instead of her surname. She currently works as Managing Editor of Raw Story.com, writes a blog at the Huffington Post, and publishes across mediums and genres.

Alexandrovna (often called LaLa in the blogosphere) does the weekly news round-up for Pacifica Radio, every Friday. She is also a regular guest on The Tony Show and on Air America Radio.

Alexandrovna was born to Alexander Yurovich and Klavdia Borisovna, both Ukrainian Jews, in the Ukraine while it was under the Soviet regime. During the early 1970s, Alexandrovna and family moved around various European cities until an entry visa could be acquired into the US. She now lives in America and moved to New York City in 1999.

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Stated influences

Dorothy Parker, Anne Sexton, Vladimir Nabokov, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Maureen Dowd, and Naomi Klein.

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Selected works

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Articles of note

See also Election 2004

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See also Real ID Act

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See also: Resolution of Inquiry, Iraq War, Downing Street Memos, and Plame Affair

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Interviews of note

John Conyers

Nuking the Spin: Scott Ritter series

Ambassador Joseph Wilson, see also: Plame Affair

Note: it is in the Wilson interview that Alexandrovna suggests the involvement of John Bolton in the Plame leak:

"Bolton’s senior advisor and sometimes chief of staff, Frederick Fleitz, was on loan from the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center. During a Senate Foreign Relations Roundtable Discussion, Fleitz described one of his duties to the Bolton office as '...liaison function for the Agency and Mr. Bolton.' This puts Fleitz or might put Fleitz inside Valerie’s circle."

In talk show appearances, Alexandrovna has described the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame as operating in two parts: the front-end sell and the back-end leak. The sell, she argues, is from WHIG to Judith Miller to media and press. The back-end leak is from Michael Ledeen, John Bolton, Fredrick Fleitz to State Department.

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Notable quotes

  • "We have no leadership, no captain at the helm as it were. We are, in effect, being led from disaster to disaster by a headless horseman run amok with stuffed pockets and an empty conscience."[1]
  • "I think the Internet is to MSM what TV was to Yellow Journalism"[2]
  • "Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?"[3]
  • "Perhaps Condi would have made a more timely cameo in New Orleans had a Chevron tanker caught fire. Jane Crow seems to be just as willing as old Jim was."[4]
  • "I say we pardon the turkeys, but not our elected officials." [5]
  • " If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God." [6]
  • "Watching our entire country implode under the self-serving ideologies of those so eager to claim everything but the Constitution as their guide leaves at least half of us without a home. We may live on the same land, but our nation and the citizens of that nation have been exiled into a national wilderness."[7]
  • "If you are going to read my mind, can you do it accurately?"
  • "Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out -chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte sized entertaining irrelevancy." [8]
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