Turkey Continues To Challenge Sweden’s NATO Membership By RFE/RL staff— Posted on June 28, 2023 Sweden’s NATO accession has been delayed due to Turkey’s demands concerning fighting terrorism, lifting an arms embargo on Ankara, and fulfilling extradition requests; these issues still remain a year later. Finland, which initially applied for NATO membership alongside Sweden, decided … Continue reading Sweden, Turkey & NATO: No, Yes, Or Still MAYBE
Garrison Keillor I had blurry vision for a couple years and found it hard to read the newspaper and then an ophthalmologist at Mayo did a three-minute painless laser procedure and a few days later I could read the paper, no problem, clear as day, and also watch a ball game on TV and keep … Continue reading Garrison Keillor: Won’t Play Oman
The Guardian Lucy Knight — March 21, 2023 Gunned down and burned by the Nazis: the shocking true story of Bambi Walt Disney made Bambi a cutesy schmaltzfest for kids. But the original story was a brutal allegory by a Jewish writer who later fled the Nazis. As the character hits 100, we look at … Continue reading Bambi Revisited: Much More than Disney
Russia: what just happened? By: Gwynne Dyer — Jun. 27, 2023 OPINION Up until late afternoon Moscow time on Saturday, Russia was in a state of acute crisis, with Yevgeny Prigozhin pulling his Wagner army of mercenary soldiers out of Ukraine and sending some of them racing up the highway towards Moscow instead. Their task … Continue reading What Just Happened In Russia? Gwynne Dyer’s Analysis
Washington Post, September 30, 2022 This is what a post-Putin Russia should look like Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence in a maximum-security penal colony. This essay was conveyed to The Post by his legal team. What does a desirable and realistic end to the criminal war unleashed by Vladimir Putin … Continue reading Money Where His Mouth Is: Alexei Navalny’s Vision of a Better, Peaceful Russia