This Earth Day, the world is in a worse state than ever, but few among us care about the harmful choices we make that impact our planet.
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Category: Commentage
The Real Greek Tragedy: Ancient Beauty and Grim, Modern Despair
By William J. Furney If the gorgeous gods of ancient Greece could see how people in their beloved country that gave the world the essential freedom of democracy live now,
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The Dictatorship of Wokeism and Cancel Culture
By William J. Furney It’s a crisp Saturday morning in claustrophobic Central Athens and as I run past street stalls setting up for the day alongside buildings festooned in loud
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African Migrants in the Canaries: Not a Drop of Water to Drink
By William J. Furney PLAYA DEL INGLES — On a run early this morning on the subtropical island of Gran Canaria, just across a short stretch of sea from the
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Frau Spiegl Needs Some Help
By William J. Furney I wasn’t so much invited into her apartment as ushered in without much of a choice, or a mask. “Kein problem,” she said, but it could
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Waiting to Exhale (without a Mask)
By William J. Furney Families are having to pay many hundreds of euros for negative coronavirus tests to get into places like Spain, placing an additional burden on them in
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Unwelcome Strangers in a Very Strange Land
By William J. Furney MASPALOMAS — They move like spooked yet expectant ghosts in this fat land. Their exotic, ebony skin is an anomaly on an homogenous island renowned for
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