Simona is a graduate of Leningrad Law School, she practiced law as a defense attorney for twenty-five years in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. Leaving behind her Communist husband in 1981, she immigrated to the United States with her two children.. While living in New York City and teaching at the New School for Social Research and New York University, she wrote a series of articles for various publications, including The International Lawyer ABA, and Law and National Security Intelligence Report.
Simona Pipko is also an Alumni of the George F. Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. She is the author of nine books and hundreds of articles published in the United States.
To learn more about Simona please visit: https://www.simonapipko.com.
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within… The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” — Cicero Our country is divided as never before. Minnesota’s anti-ICE rhetoric is spreading nationwide. In the background of numerous protests in […]
The world is divided as never before. The ideological allies of communists/socialists are fighting Western civilization. Russia, China, and Iran are sponsoring and supervising global terrorism. The environment in the world requires having smart and powerful Intel Apparatus. We don’t have it. The last thirty + years the FBI and CIA had been infiltrated by foreign forces […]
The American operation in Venezuela and arrest of its leader Nicolas Maduro is the second unprecedented event accomplished by the Trump administration. Defeat of the ideology and system of Soviet Socialism and the return of successful American Capitalism by Trump is the first unprecedented victory in world history. President Trump introduced to the world a […]
The recent tragic events have forced me to write this column: two American servicemen and an interpreter had been killed and another three servicemen wounded in Syria. Two day later two students were killed and nine wounded in a shooting at Brown University in America. On the same day a terrorist attack killed 15 and […]
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within… The traitor is the carrier of the plague. You have unbarred the gates of Rome to him.” — Cicero The most famous word in November 2025 America is the term Affordability, in the country where socialism is spreading nationwide. […]
There is a Civil War in America. The Dems hate America and its successful capitalism. They hate the constitutional republic and Republicans who defend it. The shutdown is the punishment to America for loyalty to Trump. In response to all of that, the tolerant Republicans called Dems—socialists. It doesn’t stop the war and increasing political […]
“The Fascists of the Future will call themselves Anti-Fascists.” — attributed to Sir Winston Churchill I deliberately use the term Mafia. It is in the memory of my colleague, a brilliant Soviet/Russian lawyer Arkadiy Vaksberg. Living in the authoritarian Soviet Union, he had investigated the government and rendered a verdict against the Soviet Government—a book The Soviet […]
When President Trump said that “under Biden America was dead.” He was right and as a former Soviet attorney I completely agree with him—Biden implemented familiar to me Soviet Socialism in America, which was killing the country. I have lived under Stalin’s ideology and system of Soviet Socialism for fifty years. That is for me, […]
Commenting on the recent Trump/Putin Summit, the speakers were reminded of two terms: The KGB and the USSR. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Americans, especially young people, have no idea about what those terms mean. Even more, the ruler of the Soviet Union, Dictator Joseph Stalin, who was inextricably connected to […]
Incompetence was a subject of my preceding column, discussing Sleeper Cells. The issue of Sleeper Cells is more complex and dangerous considering the history and policy of infiltration into Western world by Russian Intel Apparatus during 70 years of the 20th century. For me, the meaning of the term is much wider: Sleeper Cells are […]
“It’s time to lift the veil on incompetence “ — Financial Times The discussion on “incompetence” has begun in the UK. Simon Wren-Lewis has written an article: Why are we governed by incompetents? The New Statesman. “The ultimate check on incompetence should be democracy itself: incompetent politicians are thrown out.” I agree with the author. Incompetence […]
Christiane Amanpour is an English-Iranian news anchor and international correspondent. She compared recently the U.S. with North Korea. It is not only incompetence, but political illiteracy. Christiane Amanpour like many other world journalists, has a short memory about “a famous murderer of the 20 century”— Comrade Stalin. She hasn’t read my latest column: Ideas of […]
The new year of 2025 was rich with interesting topics. I was intrigued with the revelation and exposure of Stalinism in America by “the Elon Brigade”. Yet, they still don’t know its origin. The vast majority of Americans even don’t know the name of Joseph Stalin, a dictator of the Soviet Union. Many of them, […]
The title “The Global Spy Ring” is the term that I have been using a number of times in my columns. It describes how the KGB secretly recruits spies globally. Election of the President Donald J. Trump has changed the global climate and America on the way to end wars. There are two wars discussed: Russia-Ukraine War […]
The KGB was the Soviet Intel and law enforcement agency—a precursor of the FSB. The agency changed the name eight times to cover-up crimes previously committed. Russia now has the same agency, with the same strategy, mission, and agenda, but a new name—the FSB. I am a former Soviet attorney who writes about Russian Intel […]