2026 — Comment (1)
Survivors of Trump’s world Many observers refer to the endless supply of blatant lies emerging from the Trump administration and the deepening damage it continues to inflict on the…
2025 — Comment (1)
Trump and the world — it hurts Trump lies and lies — and yet he openly announced during the campaign many of the bad things he would do to…
2024 — Comment (1)
World comment, from another pen — our friend Lusmarina in Brazil . . . I share with my English-speaking friends a small article written in the context of New…
2023 — Comment (2)
Christmas season 2023 as seen from Brazil . . . . Sharing with you my reflection for this Christmas If the story of Jesus’ birth was today, there would…
2023 — Comment(1)
The real 3rd World War.— I am totally not competent to analyze the war in Ukraine, its origins, its devastation, its reach, the options (or lack of them) at…
2022 – Comment (1)
How not to comment on the Covid pandemic? — I never ever would have suspected that fighting a common enemy, the Covid virus, taking responsibility to protect ourselves and…
2021-Comment(2)
Third World War . . . . When our first two world wars were raging, we knew the enemy, we saw the enemy, and all our effort was in…
2021-Comment(1)
Pandemic transition? — With 3rd and even 4th waves of the Corona virus invading our countries, despite multiple vaccines becoming increasingly available, we MUST maintain adherence to the basic…
2020-Comment(2)
Corona virus (COVID-19) This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface…
2020-comment(1)
What of the world in 20-20? Like 20-20 vision, which is not perfect but just kind of average, much of the situation since the second world war for most…
2019-comment (3)
FLEXTENTION (Oct) & Post election update Dec)FLEXTENTION – wow (October 2019) Post-election update December 2019. October. Now the EU has granted the UK more time, PM Johnson says we…
2019-comment (2)
Brexit again . . Now the EU has given an extension to the Brexit deadline, here we sit awaiting next moves by the UK government. Time to reflect on…
2019-comment (1)
Oh what a mess – where to go first ! Usually it is easy to pull out from the world news one appropriate area for comment, but 2019 begins…
2018-comment (3)
Pricing the future at a discount. Climate change – the perfect economic disaster. When did we first hear about climate change and global warming? Well, the scientists knew, the…
2018-comment (2)
Here is a post copied from Avaaz 22nd July 2018. If only a part of this is true, then it seems like the world is being torn apart by…
2018-comment (1)
2018 begins with knowing that the world continues to suffer the most incredible president and administration in living memory. Incredible that the man was elected – incredible that he…
2017 – comment(2)
France – oooff . . . . . . Thank God for some sense among the majority of French voters to have avoided a major blow to Europe and…
2017-comment(1)
Every week is a week of reflection, but the week between Christmas and New Year seems even more so . . encouraged a little by TV and web postings…