1. A Murder, a Diplomatic Dust-Up and the Risk of Impunity New York Times — Sept. 22, 2023 By Nicholas Kristof Father’s Day this year, two heavyset men were loitering near a Sikh temple in British Columbia. Then the president of the temple, a Canadian citizen and an activist named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, stepped out … Continue reading Two Views: Canada, India & An “Inconvenient” Assassination?
I. Guyana: Oil, Time & Money Gwynne Dyer — Sept. 18, 2023 Guyana is not a ‘hellhole country’ of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from white places like Norway instead, but it did used to be poor, tropical and largely populated by people … Continue reading Is the Petroleum Profit Party Really About to End? Two Oil Countries Are Making Their Bets — And an Extra about The Other Washington
The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s Clara Bingham Sat 2 Sept 2023 Follow Clara Bingham What do a bestselling author, a segregationist congressman and a Black legal scholar … Continue reading A History of NOW and its Women who Made History
AP News: A CIA-backed 1953 coup in Iran haunts the country with people still trying to make sense of it BY NASSER KARIMI AND JON GAMBRELL August 25, 2023 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Seventy years after a CIA–orchestrated coup toppled Iran’s prime minister, its legacy remains both contentious and complicated for the Islamic Republic as … Continue reading Iran Marks Anniversary of 1953 CIA-Backed Coup
GWYNNE DYER: Spanish election — Franco’s ghost? July 20, 2023 Spain has been a democracy since 1975, but right-wing Vox leader may dream of filling former dictator’s shoes Spain’s far right Vox party leader Santiago Abascal says he is open to forming national and regional governing coalitions with the mainstream conservative People’s Party after the … Continue reading Dyer-Spain, the far Right, The burning sun, the future . . .