Gwynne Dyer — Sept. 28, 2022 [NOTE: How can we even be thinking and talking about this? How can we not?] Vladimir Putin’s desperation was plain in the emergency measures he declared last week: immediate mobilisation of at least 300,000 more troops, the sudden decision to use fake referendums to turn all the occupied parts … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on Putin’s Nuclear “Bluff” (“Bluff”???)
[NOTE: the article below opens the doors of memory. The draft resistance exodus from Russia is the third such episode I’ve witnessed. The first two I played a bit part in: during the 1960s Vietnam War, many U. S. Quakers “aided and abetted” (technically a federal crime) many young men who left the country to … Continue reading Deja Vu All Over Again! Draft Exiles Streaming Out of Russia
Power close at hand for hard-right populist party as Italy’s snap election draws near Gwynne Dyer – Sept. 20, 2022 There’s an election in Italy next Sunday, almost exactly 100 years after Benito Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts’ marched on Rome and brought the first fascist dictator to power. Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right populist politician who is likely … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Putin’s Fans May be Italy’s Next Rulers
[NOTE: two hundred and fifty million pop records, 500+ songs, in a dozen or more languages, over a 50-year career and I never heard one of them. A reminder that I’ve led a very sheltered western life. Now, it sounds like she may be the loudest public voice in Russia against Putin’s war. Will it … Continue reading Russia’s top Pop Singer Denounces Ukraine War
BY ELENA BECATOROS AND HANNA ARHIROVA Sept. 12, 2022 KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine kept the counteroffensive momentum in its war against Russia going Monday, saying it liberated one village after another and claiming that in one region it pushed the invaders back right up to the border in a lightning military move that stunned … Continue reading War Update: Ukraine Forces on the Move, Russians Retreat