By Gwynne Dyer Feb. 19, 2024 Vladimir Putin’s regime had been assassinating Chechen warlords, defectors from the Russian intelligence services and sundry wayward oligarchs for years, but its first political murder was the hit on high-profile journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her Moscow apartment in 2006 — and so it has been … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer On the Navalny Murder
Bulletin: Trump Said Dems Will Rename Pennsylvania—and Even Weirder Things Donald Trump’s ramblings this weekend were truly deranged. Win McNamee/Getty Images Donald Trump’s gaffes are becoming more frequent and more indecipherable by the day. At a National Rifle Association gathering in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Friday, Trump made plenty of strange blunders in front of his … Continue reading But Why Stop with Pennsylvania??
Ukraine: The Generals Are Not The Problem ‘God is usually on the side of the big battalions’, Voltaire allegedly said. Not always, but ‘usually’. So how much do you want to bet? By Gwynne Dyer, in Opinion · February 12, 2024 Coming up to the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (24 … Continue reading Ukraine’s New War Commander & the East Asian Population Bust
BY ELÉONORE HUGHES January 30, 2024 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The executive manager for institutional relations at a Brazilian state bank took the microphone before roughly 150 people at a forum on slavery’s legacy in his country, which kidnapped more Africans for forced labor than any other nation.“Today’s Bank of Brazil asks Black people … Continue reading Brazil’s Slave History: Recognition & Talk of Reparations
There’s more to it than hair; but . . . . In 2003, Wendy Michener, a mid-life architecture student from Raleigh, joined the Board of Quaker House in Fayetteville NC. Soon she was Clerk of the House & Grounds Committee (there were no other volunteers). As Director since early 2002, I had seen from early … Continue reading Happy 20th Anniversary to Me (And Us)