Apart from the cold war waged by the religious in the attempt to continue to impose their beliefs on those who do not want it1, there is another war going…
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It has been reported that the US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, was close to resigning in July after several policy disputes and assorted other clashes with the White House….
Once more, a deranged murderer has taken advantage of the idiotic 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution, to amass an arsenal of automatic weapons and ammunition. That amendment states: “A…
Hurricane Harvey is doing its worst to swamp the parts of Texas. Not only has the Houston area already suffered massive flooding with some reports of floodwaters 10 metres higher…
Republicans heaved a sigh of relief when Reince Priebus was ‘selected’ by Trump as his chief of staff in November 2016. The selection was somewhat of a surprise given that…
Trump’s wink and a nod to the neo-Nazis and other white supremacists after the Charlottesville death, was quickly stamped on by some at the White House, notably John Kelly, Trump’s…
The paradox of tolerance was first described by Karl Popper in 1945 in his book ‘the Open Society and its Enemies’1. It states that if a society is tolerant without…
In the early 1990s, I had the opportunity to travel to Russia, which was only the third time I had been overseas and the first time I had been outside…
One of the numerous disturbing things about the Trump White House is the apparent lack of concern about the rise of white supremacists. This was brought home recently by the…
Over the last 30 years or so, North Korea has developed its rocketry capability from unguided rockets like those used by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the…
