October 4, 2019
“What many Russians, but few Americans, know is that 20 years before Russia tried to swing an American presidential election, America tried to swing a presidential election in Russia. The year was 1996. Boris Yeltsin was seeking a second term, and Bill Clinton desperat...
September 16, 2019
Part two
“Not so funny money” stickers by Jay Soule, aka Chippewar, are a reminder of the actions of those people who adorned Canadian currency.
Canadian leaders who helped resolve the “Indian problem” included British General Jeffery Amherst — a highly acclaimed righteo...
September 16, 2019
Part one
“The concept of complicity can make a person criminally responsible for a crime physically committed by another person. So even though a person may not have directly committed the offence in question, their actions before, during or after the commission of an
o...
July 26, 2019
“There was a young fellow from Ankara
Who was a terrific wankerer.
Till he sowed his wild oats
With the help of a goat
But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”
The juvenile wit and political prowess of the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Turkish President Tayyip Er...
May 2, 2019
“The term does not necessarily signify mass killings . . . more often [genocide] refers to a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups so that these groups wither and die like plants that have suffered a blight. T...
February 11, 2019
By William Hanna
“I am seriously thinking of running for President.”
Howard Schultz
Former Starbucks CEO, Howard Schultz, is apparently with his $3.4 billion fortune seriously considering running for president as a centrist independent. While the possibility of this part...
September 5, 2018
Vietnamese victims of the My Lai massacre, March 1968
The death of Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain, now remembered as a war hero, statesman, and maverick, begs the question — irrespective of whether or not all the plaudits being showered upon him a...
June 28, 2018
“A rehabilitation centre in Gaza has created 'Heroes FC', a team formed from the many amputees from Israel's wars on Gaza and the recent violent response to protests along the border fence.” https://bit.ly/2K3FzBi
Hello Gary,
With the World Cup being on, we have been se...
June 26, 2018
“All I can say, after talking to the people, watching the people, listening to the people: the Statue of Liberty, I think, is weeping right now,”
Gayle King on CBS This Morning.
"Protests are growing at processing centres nationwide, where those children are being detai...
June 8, 2018
As part of research for a book, I spent the weekend in Hereford, Herefordshire, which included visiting the 1079 Grade I listed Cathedral with its famous Mappa Mundi. The map, a unique medieval treasure created around the year 1300 — on a single sheet of calfskin vellu...
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