William J. Furney, Author at Furney Times

July 20, 2019 Commentary

Half a Century Later, Is It Lunacy to Return to the Moon?

By William J. Furney Humans have not set foot on their nearest celestial satellite for half a century, and does anyone really care? Fifty years ago today, two American men

July 13, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Hong Kong’s Boss Is Tone Deaf, and No One Is Listening

By William J. Furney The sterile halls of power in Beijing will be filled with fiery alarm at the mass insolence in Hong Kong when the omnipotent Communist Party thought

June 29, 2019 Commentary

The WHO Needs an Injection of Sense Over Ebola Crisis

By William J. Furney Off all the many diseases to afflict humankind, Ebola is surely one of the most feared. There’s no cure and the fatality rate can be as

June 8, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Asma All Smiles as Syria Burns

By William J. Furney Asma al-Assad, the first lady of Syria and previously known for her love of high-end shopping in London and other fashionable capitals of Europe, until the

June 2, 2019 Poetry

India Red-Earth

By William J. Furney Thick, sticky, iron clay Binds, on the beach, into farmers’ muck. This ancient, yogic, blazing land leaves an indelible stain, And the blithe interloper wonders if

May 18, 2019 Commentary

Will Boeing’s Patched-Up Crash-Plane Fly (and, after 346 Deaths, Why Hasn’t CEO Muilenburg Been Fired)?

By William J. Furney The most feared airplane in the world is not some dodgy model from Russia, China or other part of the world with a poor aviation safety

May 11, 2019 Reportage / Travel

Tales of Two Pakistanis in Towering Dubai

By William J. Furney In Dubai this week, I encountered two men from Pakistan, one named Muhammad and the other Mohammad, both of them upper-end taxi drivers in an otherwise

April 22, 2019 Reportage / Travel

If Cattle Can Walk in the Streets of India, Can I Run in Them?

By William J. Furney This Easter Sunday morning on my sweltering hour-plus run along a long stretch of beach by the frenzied Goan town of Candolim, I received several waves

April 11, 2019 Commentary

No Saving Grace for Assange the Messiah

By William J. Furney In the end, after seven long and isolated years holed up in a tiny embassy of a South American nation in central London, Julian Assange emerged

April 6, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Stoning in the 21st Century

By William J. Furney Of all the forms of capital punishment, stoning is surely the most brutal and howlingly grotesque, and picturing in your mind how the long, bloody and