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Occasionally I have cause to reprise a commentary in full with relatively little explanation. This is one of those occasions. It stems from the following headline in the June 3 edition of The Independent: Trump condos going for bargain prices because no one wants to live in them More to the point, that report includes… Read more.
Episode 35: And a Rehabbed Tiger Will Be an Even Older Champion… Related commentaries: Tiger… Get well, Tiger… Listen.
But it’s only a matter of time before suburbia-whipped city dwellers return with tails between their legs. Read more.
It was curious, to put it charitably, that Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, was making news lately more for her million-dollar properties than for her political activism. This is why her resignation this week came as no surprise. USA Today reported on her “golden parachute” from the front lines of the ongoing fight… Read more.
The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 was arguably the worst race massacre in US history. Yet it was so effectively whitewashed from history books that even eminent political commentators are confessing ignorance about it today. Try as I might, I cannot recall even a passing reference to it during my school days – not even… Read more.
In a world of trash-talking athletes, Naomi Osaka stands out as a superstar who clearly prefers to let her playing do all the talking. This is why it was hardly surprising when so many athletes spoke out against racial injustice after the infamous killing of George Floyd last year. But it speaks volumes that Osaka… Read more.
Episode 34: But Apple Didn’t Fall Far From the US Government Tree… Related commentaries: doing business in China… if US were police state… Biden’s A-Team… Earth Day… Ukraine’s Orange Revolution… world beware… china buying dominion… Listen.
The tiny Caribbean nation of Belize is making worldwide headlines today. This, because local authorities arrested the daughter-in-law of a notorious British lord for allegedly murdering a local man she was “socializing” with on a pier around midnight on Thursday. Except that, as one might expect given this lady’s status in life, this was no… Read more.
Russia’s unrepentant and unrelenting transgressions were already such that they provoked me to publish “To Reinforce Sanctions Against Lukashenko the Skyjacker and Vlad the Poisoner, Biden Must Cancel the Putin Summit!” May 27, 2021. Then came this: Microsoft says another wave of Russian cyber-attacks has targeted government agencies and human rights groups in 24 countries,… Read more.
EU leaders led the world in condemning the president of Belarus for ordering a truly extraordinary caper on Sunday. In a piece on May 24 titled, “A State-Sponsored Skyjacking Can’t Go Unanswered,” the editorial board of The New York Times began its condemnation as follows: _________ Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has gone too… Read more.
