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”???)
AP News: Lights out, ovens off: Europe preps for winter energy crisis BY DAVID MCHUGH, JUSTIN SPIKE, KAREL JANICEK AND VESELIN TOSHKOV — Sept. 26, 2022 FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — As Europe heads into winter in the throes of an energy crisis, offices are getting chillier. Statues and historic buildings are going dark. Bakers who … Continue reading Trial by Winter: The Ukraine War Is Coming to Western Europe
[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
Overview: Russia begins massive Ukraine war call-up, spurring some men to flee Reuters: KYIV/NEW YORK, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Russia pushed ahead on Thursday with its biggest conscription drive since World War Two, prompting some men to rush abroad, while Ukraine demanded “just punishment” for a seven-month-old invasion that has shaken the world. President Vladimir … Continue reading Putin’s Mobilization: Preparing for a bigger, more desperate war on Ukraine
[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