[ NOTE: Dan Ellsberg, born in April 1931, started out as a laser-bright Harvard grad, a Marine, and was a Pentagon whiz kid under Defense Secretary Robert MacNamara, when the Vietnam War heated up. He rose to fame when his conscience moved him to copy and release a secret report, called the Pentagon Papers, which … Continue reading For The Weekend: Daniel Ellsberg — Another American Hero
[Midday wrap-up: Three short but trenchant items (with an extra about the boreal Forest), covering wars (present and maybe future); climate change tipping points; and not least, why confronting Gov. Ron DeSantis’s racist war on “woke” head-on is a big progressive mistake. Check them all out!] # 1-Wars & Rumors of War: Looking to the … Continue reading Threefer Thursday: Briefs About Everything (Well, Almost)
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.
‘What’s not to like about nuclear fusion? Only the delivery date’ Gwynne Dyer · Columnist – December 15, 2022 Nuclear fusion, the holy grail that would finally end all the world’s energy problems, has been receding into the future at the rate of about one year per year all my adult life — it was … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Nuclear Fusion Can Save Us— If it Arrives In Time
A Winter Hibernation in Ukraine’s War? Gwynne Dyer, Independent Columnist Bangkok Post — December 6, 2022 When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to. Can it just be simple ignorance, … Continue reading Ukraine: Don’t Count on a “Winter Lull” in the Fighting