Ukraine: Will Western tanks bring victory? Gwynne Dyer — Jan 27 2023 Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes about international affairs. OPINION: On Tuesday they reset the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds before midnight. How did they know that Germany would agree to give Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday?
How Southern California helped birth white Christian nationalism Part memoir, part history of Southern California’s formative role in the rise of the religious right, Bradley Onishi’s new book traces his growing estrangement from the faith he once zealously championed. “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next” and … Continue reading Breaking from Evangelical Quakerism/Christian Nationalism: Two Survivors’ Stories
It’s true. I joined in a 2019 class action lawsuit against Apple. The suit alleged that Apple charged me and a few (thousand?) others for file storage on its iCloud servers. But Apple didn’t actually store my stuff on their iCloud servers, because it didn’t have enough of them. So it jobbed out the storage … Continue reading Justice Triumphs! I Sued Apple — I Won! (Sort of)
[Note: Forty three years after leaving the White House, Jimmy Carter & the Carter Center are still achieving mostly unheralded landmarks of positive change.] The Guardian — Wed 25 Jan 2023 Guinea worm disease could be second ever human illness to be eradicated As cases fall, the condition that once affected millions of people in … Continue reading Good News: Guinea Worm Disease Is Almost Eradicated
GWYNNE DYER: The stubborn persistence of some heads of state and the political mindset of New Zealand’s Ardern Bangor Daily News — Jan. 23, 2023 “All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs,” wrote … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Burnout in New Zealand