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Two paragraphs in Michelle Goldberg’s op today send thrills up my spine
Not chills, no. Thrills. Goldberg visited Ukraine a few years ago and today tells us about some of her Ukrainian contacts, what they’re feeling and thinking, in her op, “Why Ukrainians Believe They Can Win.” Here are the two paragraphs: … Continue reading
Posted in Corruption, Joe Biden and his people, Politics, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights, War
Tagged Kyiv, Michelle Goldberg, Nataliya Gumenyuk, the Orange Revolution, Ukraine, voting rights, Weimar Republic, Yanukovych, Zelensky
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Our first, endless war is against racism
Among the wars we’re fighting here in the U.S., racism is the first. Here, from Harper’s Weekly Review: “I’ll get away with it ’cause I’m white,” said a Nashville woman who was arrested by a black officer on suspicion of … Continue reading
Posted in Fascism, Racism, voting and voting rights
Tagged America First Political Action Conference, Harper's Weekly Review, Joe Arpaio, white supremacy
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God’s Hammer, guerrilla warfare, Ukraine and the breath of life
When I was a little girl, 5 years old, my lungs asserted themselves inauspiciously. Starting with several months of pneumonia, they proceeded, as I grew up, into various bronchial uproars, and then asthma attacks. It was during an extended asthma … Continue reading
Posted in Human rights, The Facts of Life, voting and voting rights
Tagged bronchiectasis, Crimea, emphysema, glasnost, Howard Fast, My Glorious Brothers, Odessa, perestroika, Putin, Soviet Union, the Maccabees, Ukraine
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