#1–AP News: EXPLAINER: How important is a Russian retreat from Kherson? BY SAM MEDNICK — November 11, 2022 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials said Friday that Ukrainian flags were appearing “en masse and all over the place,” in the wake of Russia’s retreat from the southern region of Kherson, one of the four regions … Continue reading Ukraine updates: Kherson Wthdrawal & the War’s Environmental Toll
Thursday, 10 November 2022 | Gwynne Dyer Anthropologists have found that warfare was chronic and almost universal among hunter-gatherers We appear to be witnessing a dramatic and childlike scenario,” said Pope Francis in Bahrain on Friday. “In the garden of humanity, instead of cultivating our surroundings, we are playing instead with fire, missiles and bombs, … Continue reading Dyer: Humans Inherited War
New York Times – Opinion: Guest Essay Doug Mastriano and the Potential of Amish Voters in Pennsylvania By Bonnie Kristian — Nov. 4, 2022 Ms. Kristian is a journalist and a fellow at Defense Priorities, a foreign policy think tank. Former President Donald Trump lost Pennsylvania in 2020 by just around 80,000 votes out of … Continue reading Amish & The Vote: Their buggies are cute; their clothes & dialect are quaint; their food is good (& fattening). Their politics? Well . . .
Gwynne Dyer: Israel: Yet Another Election From The Portugal News By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion · Oct. 27, 2022 Israeli voters are indefatigable. The election on November 1st will be the fifth in just three-and-a-half years, and yet the turnout is still likely to be around 70%. That’s especially remarkable because all five elections … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer on Possible Bibi Comeback & What’s Next
GWYNNE DYER: Tigray is being brutally decimated at the hands of Ethiopia, but the world is mostly looking the other way ‘There is only one special thing about Africa’s wars: how little attention everybody else pays to them’ By: Gwynne Dyer — Friday, Oct. 21, 2022 When writing about the Tigray-Ethiopia struggle or any other war … Continue reading Ignoring Africa’s (not very many) Wars. Is It (anything but) Racism?