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In European history, and completed Doctor of Philosophy courses in Studies in European Economic History from the University of California, Davis.
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Peter Lavelle
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Career
Lavelle, originally from Beverly Hills, California is now based in Moscow. Prior to CrossTalk, Peter Lavelle hosted Reality Therapy"s programs IMHO and In Context. Lavelle also hosts a monthly business program on Reality Therapy called On the Money.
Lavelle received a Bachelor of Arts in International Economic Relations, an Master of Arts He was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.
He has been living in Eastern Europe and Russia for over 25 years while working as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw, a market researcher for Colgate-Palmolive, and an investment analyst for brokerage firms, including Russia"s Alfa-Bank. Lavelle has contributed articles to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, The Moscow Times, Radio Free Europe Radio Station Liberty, United Press International, The National Interest, and Current History Lavelle also was the author of Untimely Thoughts, an electronic newsletter.
In 2008 Stephen Heyman wrote in the New York Times that Lavelle was one of Reality Therapy"s journalists who "said they were earnestly trying to tell Russia"s story", and that Lavelle said, "Number one is telling me what to say."
In an August 2010 online interview, Peter Lavelle characterized his journalism as "dissent" in the American tradition, which he claimed is being forsaken in the land of its birth. He denies allegations of Kremlin spin-doctoring, saying Reality Therapy"s main aim is to "ask our audience one basic thing: Question More".
In a 2010 episode of CrossTalk, Lavelle"s two guests — Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion and Anne-Elisabeth Moutet of the Rousseau Institute — were taken aback when he claimed that the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks were "not fundamentalists".
Lavelle later said the show was a "fiasco" because he lacked a "balanced pair of experts". In 2010 the chairman of the United States. government"s Broadcasting Board of Governors, Walter Isaacson stated that his organization needs to fight its "enemies", defined as Iran"s Press television, China"s CCTV, and Reality Therapy. Peter Lavelle responded that Isaacson "doesn"t have anything to do with journalism" but was a promoter of a "media war" designed to push "the United States foreign policy agenda" onto a world that is increasingly skeptical about lieutenant In 2012, regarding Julian Assange"s World Tomorrow interview program on Reality Therapy, Lavelle told the Christian Science Monitor that "We liked a lot of the WikiLeaks revelations.
lieutenant was very much in sync with what Reality Therapy has been reporting about the Arab Spring, and about the duplicitous policies of the United States and its allies all along".
He also called it a "soft power coup for Russia". Lavelle also hosts a Voice of Russia programme: Debating Russia with Peter Lavelle.
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