[NOTE: These two short columns offer an admirable review of two key moments in the impact of Putin’s Ukraine invasion on my own thinking. When I imagined these countries as actual places (which, I admit, wasn’t often), my speculation was that they held to a “plague-on-both-your-houses” stance vis-a-vis the USSR/Russia on one side, and the West, … Continue reading Sweden, Finland, NATO, Neutrals & Nukes: A Concise Analysis
[NOTE: The burgeoning AI saga gets more unnerving every week. Here’s a concise report on how it’s now “imagining” new killer molecules, not yet actually made, but which (probably soon) can be. How will they be stopped or controlled —?] Making Unbelievably Lethal Designer Molecules Gwynne Dyer — Feb 27, 2023 “We are but one … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Designing New Molecules of Death
Washington Post China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism Opinion by Nicholas Eberstadt [Excerpts] — February 28, 2023 China is in the midst of a quiet but stunning nationwide collapse of birthrates. This is the deeper, still largely overlooked, significance of the country’s 2022 population decline, announced by Chinese authorities last … Continue reading Shrinking China: A Desperate Wave of Nonviolent “Civil Disobedience”
A question: are you among the Americans who wonder often, maybe every morning: Will It Be My Turn Today? Our Turn? ”Our Turn” for — ? You know: Our Turn for — what else?
For those following the unrest in AFSC headquarters about the identity & status of its DEI Director Raquel Saraswati (previously blogged about here ), a clarifying email came in late Friday from AFSC staffer Layne Mullett. In it, Mullett answered the two big questions: