Good news? Yes, it's hard to find. But it's out there. So many millions of people working towards a clean and peaceful planet, working with compassion for the victims of war, of injustice, and of extreme weather. Impossible to name the many agencies - from the numerous United Nations ones, (UNICEF, UNHCR, UNESCO ....), and…
By continuing the persecution of Julian Assange, the US government is signaling how little it cares about press freedom. YANIS VAROUFAKIS, LINA ATTALAH, and JOHN KIRIAKOU, December 25, 2023/January 1, 2024, Issue, https://www.thenation.com/donate-display/?utm medium=display&utm source=Display&utm campaign=2023-eoy&sourceid=1082390&ms=300-600&utm content=300-600 In early 2024, a new, grim chapter may be written in the annals of journalistic history. Julian Assange, the publisher of Wikileaks, could board a…
This newsletter short, as I have been ill in hospital for nearly a week. (Fine now.) It did give me time to think. One thought: people liken the Russian advance on the Donbass, invasion of Ukraine, to the Nazis in WW2. That is so incorrect. So wrong to equate this situation to the evil philosophy…