Online pharmacies that sell abortion pills are sharing sensitive data with Google and other third parties, which may allow law enforcement to prosecute those who use the medications to end their pregnancies, a ProPublica analysis has found.
Continue reading Danger! Buying Abortion Pills Online Is NOT Yet Secure or Safe!
[NOTE: This column is a followup to the post of early last week: Lightning Strikes Three Times: Japan, Taiwan & The Emerging Big Power Arms Races.
It’s an improvement, in two ways: First, Gwynne Dyer knows what he’s talking about. He has a doctorate in war history and strategy; he served with the militaries of three different countries, and has traveled and studied wars past and present across much of the world. Second, he writes with rare concision and clarity, building on forty-plus years of practice in meeting deadlines and skillfully fitting big thoughts and insights into always-small and tight Op-Ed column spaces.
And — oh wait, there’s a third: Dyer is an independent journalist/analyst, and excels most others in seeing through the thick fogbanks of propaganda and lies thrown up around wars and rumors of war by most or all sides. Here, he does it again.]
Hamilton Ontario Spectator–January 19, 2023
Continue reading Dyer: Alliances and The Big Wars Nobody Wanted, But Stumbled Into
Introduction: For me, the sudden abandonment of neutrality by Sweden and Finland after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine were like separate lightning bolts striking the same tree.
How likely was that? Sweden had been a neutral country for 200+ years. Finland for 75, since 1948. Continue reading Lightning Strikes Three Times: Japan, Taiwan & The Emerging Big Power Arms Races
Today’s New York Times yielded a rich trove . . .
One was about historian Jon Meacham’s new book, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House)
A New York Times interviewer asked, “So, having delved into the legacies of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin Roosevelt and George H.W. Bush, why did Meacham take so long to turn his sights on Lincoln?
[NOTE: Columnist George Will sets aside his usual reactionary sentiments here, to produce instead a concise and clear breakdown of the case Dominion will attempt to make in pursuit of its $1.5 billion defamation action against Fox News.
Will usefully points out the challenges Dominion faces in proving that the Fox “News” promotion of demonstrable falsehoods about their machines as engines of mass voting fraud constituted actionable defamation. Continue reading The Dominion Voting Machine Lawsuit Goes to Trial soon: Here’s a Good Summary
