Category Archives: Good News

Changing a System: A Police Chief Confronts a Neo-Nazi Cop

[NOTE: In the post featuring “TUD” (The Unforgettable Diagram) about racism and its roots, the “stick person” of individual attitudes and actions was surrounded  (embedded?) by many systems, which showed the impact of racism, and in may ways preserved and reproduced it; and both were enclosed (imprisoned?) in the larger encompassing culture.

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Gwynne Dyer: The Northern Irish “Troubles” Are Over. Will they Stay Over?

[NOTE: I once seriously considered retiring in Ireland. It was 2010 and, closing in on 70, I wondered if there were any peaceable options to the ongoing mess and mass shootings in the USA. Initially, Ireland seemed to be several positives: ancestral ties (O’Brien was my mother’s maiden name); a similar language; a reported friendliness … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: The Northern Irish “Troubles” Are Over. Will they Stay Over?

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