What happened to “a few weeks” as predicted by many military experts would be the length of Russia’s Ukraine invasion before the former Soviet nation would own Ukraine? We are 40+ days into the slaughter of hundreds of Ukrainian citizens and a yet-uncounted military death toll. It appears victory for Putin may be slipping away. …
Can Anyone Ascertain What Putin’s Endgame Must Be? Read More »
The events of the past two weeks in Ukraine have assaulted the senses of a Western world that convinced itself war like this was no longer possible. Europe, we were promised, wasn’t supposed to be like this. War always happened somewhere else. Now one of the world’s largest armies rolling across the border of a …
Democracy-True Democracy Is Under Attack: And Not Just In Ukraine Read More »
We start a new feature today. Our biggest stories will always appear here in writing. Additionally, however, for those of THE most important stories, we will add an audible version of each of those stories. How will that work? At the very top of those stories, there will be an icon — that famous that …
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it. ― Hannah Arendt: from The Origins of Totalitarianism We must always take sides. Neutrality helps …
Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations. Simon Wiesenthal, The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn’t. What happened may happen again, to others, not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders. …
The Coming Genocide: Mass Extermination of Humanity Part One Read More »
