Grandson says Carter is ‘coming to the end’ in brief update about former president’s health Michelle Shen, CNN — May 14, 2024 Jimmy Carter’s grandson said Tuesday that the former president is “coming to the end” in a brief update about the 39th president’s health. “(My grandfather) is doing OK,” Jason Carter said at a … Continue reading Jimmy Carter: “Coming to the End”
Israel, Hamas and the elusive cease fire GWYNNE DYER — PUBLISHED: 7 MAY 2024 Hamas did not need a ceasefire. It had already demonstrated that Israel could not eradicate it. It had achieved its primary goal of wrecking the anti-Iran alliance that was brewing between Israel and the major Arab Gulf states. And it doesn’t … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Cease-fire?
NYTimes What Deathbed Visions Teach Us About Living Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind. By Phoebe Zerwick — March 12, 2024 Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in 1974 is blurred, but not … Continue reading What A Great Way To Go!
By Gwynne Dyer Feb. 19, 2024 Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her Moscow apartment in 2006 — and so it has been … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer On the Navalny Murder
Kansas & Wyoming, 1958-1960 In those old days of the (pre-Vatican Two) Catholic Church, they used to say of people like me that we had “lost our faith.” In my case, it wasn’t quite true. That year, 1958, as I turned sixteen,I didn’t lose my faith. Instead, I discovered I just didn’t have any. I … Continue reading Early Abortion & The Priest With Two Stethoscopes