Israel: “Mowing the Lawn” Again, but with Malice Aforethought Gwynne Dyer — Jul 08 2023 Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes about international affairs. OPINION: The two-day Israeli military incursion into the Palestinian city of Jenin in the northern West Bank (12 Palestinians killed, one Israeli dead) seems at first … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: The West Bank. Again.
[NOTE: Anybody remember that #45 began his administration by lying about the size of his sparse inaugural crowd, and doctoring the photographs? Here we go again. In the past two weeks I received half a dozen texts and email pleas to show up at his monster 2024 campaign rally in tiny Pickens, South Carolina on … Continue reading Nerding Out: Did Trump’s July 1 Rally Actually Draw 50-75K People??
The Intercept: PRIGOZHIN TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT PUTIN’S WAR IN UKRAINE Yevgeny Prigozhin is a disinformation artist whose failed rebellion was marked by a burst of radical honesty. James Risen — July 1 2023 ONE OF THE most subversive things that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin did during his brief rebellion last weekend was to tell … Continue reading James Risen
Washington Post — Today’s WorldView A historic rise in global conflict deaths suggests a violent new era Analysis by Adam Taylor, Reporter — June 29, 2023 More than 238,000 people died in global conflict last year, according to a new study released Tuesday, marking a massive 96 percent increase year over year in deaths … Continue reading Deaths in War, After a Long Decline, Are Spiking Upward
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