By William J. Furney If we do end up destroying our planet — next month’s climate talking-shop in Scotland is hardly likely to arrest the devastating change under way, as
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Grow Up! Chides Boris, as World Faces Climate Apocalypse
By William J. Furney His reference to a frog puppet may not exactly have been ribbiting, but Boris Johnson surely sent many people hopping mad with his lecture at the
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As 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Nears, the US Government Has Questions to Answer
By William J. Furney In just over a month, the families of the almost 3,000 people who perished in airplane attacks in the United States will commemorate the Al Qaeda
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What’s Bugging China?
By William J. Furney It’s the most difficult challenge of our time, and there’s one question every country on the planet wants an answer to — except one, unless it
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Cuba’s Reawakening: ¡Viva La (Nueva) Revolución!
By William J. Furney With Fidel gone and Raúl in retirement, there’s no longer a Castro cult of personality to keep the people of Cuba warm at night on their
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A Summer of Hope, and a Winter of Despair
By William J. Furney So far it’s mostly been a typical washout of a summer in England, which should surprise no one living there, but still it does. A few
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After Costly Afghanistan Misadventure, More Disaster Looms
By William J. Furney After two decades in war-ravaged Afghanistan, the United States has had enough and, under orders from President Biden, packed up and left this week, surely hoping
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A Chinese ‘Dystopia’ The UN Ignores
By William J. Furney The Chinese authorities have created a dystopian hellscape on a staggering scale in Xinjiang. Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities face crimes against humanity and other
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Introduce Beefy Meat Tax to Prevent Another Pandemic
By William J. Furney The pandemic we’re still embroiled in, more than a year on, is this century’s “Chernobyl moment”, says a report into the global health catastrophe published this
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Earth Needs Our Attention for a Year or Decade, Not an Hour or Day
By William J. Furney We had an hour, in March and then, this week, a day. To save an imperiled planet that so far is our only home in the
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