Rescuing History – Alan Conrad

Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything

This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything

The last chance to prevent a criminal from becoming president of the USA has just been thrown away by the supreme court in their enigmatic 9-0 decision. They've thrown responsibility for the future back to the US house of representatives and senate, knowing full well that there's no chance a vote there can succeed. The … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | the abdication of the Supreme Court in the USA | Germany 1933 vs America 2024 |What now?

If Donald Trump gets re-elected, how long will it be before new versions of the Klan begin operations?

I wish I had a dollar for every time the novel Don Quixote is mentioned and someone then has to make a remark about old fools charging at windmills. In a 2002 survey of 100 authors around the world, who were asked to name the book they considered to be the “most meaningful of all … Continue reading Rescuing Fiction | The real Don Quixote and why, and how, you might want to read him

..... 75% of the American voting public don't want the Biden vs Trump choice.

......four dreams in The Birdcatcher lead Stone to a revelation about how autistic people have come to exist - to who they really are.

"You and I are going home today on a road we do not know."

Yes, I sympathize (a bit) with the way Putin has painted himself into a corner.......

........when you consider that we live in a gigantic house-of-cards world, threatening to collapse..... don't we need more intelligence, not less?