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COVID Gets Creative

On Monday, April 18th, a judge struck down the federal mandate requiring masks for travel.  But five days earlier, the New York Times had come out with a report that made public travel sound suicidal and mask-wearing sound like a necessity. New York State, where I...

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Russian TV Goes Nuclear

The fear of nuclear war has been in the air ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on March 24th.  How real is the nuclear possibility?   If there  is a decision to start an all-out nuclear war, that decision will take place in the mind of one man and one man only,...

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Does Russia Want a World War?

A hopeful story in Bloomberg News November 20 proclaimed that “Kremlin Insiders [are] Alarmed Over [the] Growing Toll of Putin’s War in Ukraine.”       The subtitle revealed that “Some in the [Russian] elite fear the invasion was a catastrophic mistake.”   All of this...

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Are Ukrainians Human?

Dmitry Medvedev is the former president of Russia, the current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, and is a mouthpiece for his boss, Vladimir Putin.  So when Medvedev speaks, he gives insight into Putin’s mind.  And on Tuesday April 6th, Medvedev...

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How Space Can Save Ukraine

According to a leading figure in the defense community, a retired general who prefers to remain anonymous, space can save us from the next Ukraine. Here’s how. Says the general, “Imagine this.  At 7:00 AM, Russia moves troops across the border into Ukraine. Fifteen...

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Grief or Ecstasy? Nature’s Hidden Command

The story of nature and the story of life is not a tale of plants, animals, and humans living in harmony with their environment. It is not a tale of a blissful balance.  It is not the story of a warm and loving equilibrium.    And it is not the story of a green...

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How Russia Aims to Ruin Your Life

So far, the Ukraine war has barely touched your  lifestyle and mine.  But that could soon change.  The change could come in four areas—your food, your electricity, your water, and your internet. It  all starts with oil.  In 2017, Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed to keep...

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From One, Many. From Many, One.

An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “Roads Through Amelia”   Have you ever seen a mandala? Listened to the philosophical lectures of Alan Watts set to soothing music? When was the last time you sat and listened to a song that began with a single,...

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Seeing Is (Not Necessarily) Believing

An essay by Joshua T. Calkins-Treworgy Author of “The Big Tour”   A commonplace near-death experience that seems to share almost universal ties to people who have been on the brink of death, or by those who have been clinically dead and revived, goes pretty much...

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