Wordsmith: An Interview With Larisa Alexandrovna

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For anyone who is also a Larisa Alexandrovna fan (lawlaw_rawraw)

Wordsmith; An Interview with Larisa Alexandrovna

by John LeKay

http://www.opednews.com



Larisa Alexandrovna was the first to report that the US-UK began an illegal pre-war bombing campaign of Iraq, that former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson was working on WMD proliferation in Iran at the time her cover was blown, that the US Department of Defense was working with a terrorist organization - the MEK - in order to de-stabilize Iran, and that US forces had detained roughly seventy thousand Iraqi and Afghan nationals since the beginning of military operations post-911

She is known for outspoken criticism of the Bush administration, especially on civil liberties and human rights. Alexandrovna is regularly featured on leading media outlets to both express her concern over human rights violations by the Bush administration and to discuss the war on the Constitution launched by the Republican Congress and the White House.



INTERVIEW

John LeKay: When and where did you first start writing poetry an can you remember what your first poem was about?

Larisa Alexandrovna: The first poem I remember is when I was about six, in Vienna Austria. We had finally gotten out of the Soviet Union and were slowly making our way to the States. We shared a flat with another Russian family and an older woman, also from the Soviet bloc. The poem was about the Russian revolution, if you can imagine, and it was totally inaccurate, and really very silly. But my mother was very proud of it, so she had me read it to the older woman, who shredded it to pieces. It was really a stupid, inaccurate, and badly written poem. But I was six, what did she expect?

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/not_sh_john_lek_061117_wordsmiths.htm

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