Commentary Archives - Furney Times

September 14, 2019 Commentary

WikiLeaks Is Dead, as Founder Assange Flounders in Jail

By William J. Furney Julian Assange‘s grand, world-changing plans have finally come crashing down and ended up on the scrapheap of internet publishing. The Australian former computer hacker with giant

September 7, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Boris’ Brexit Bull May Land Him Behind Bars

By William J. Furney To publicly admit you’re a supporter of the United Kingdom’s proposed departure from the mighty European Union is to usually invite scorn and ridicule: you’d be

August 3, 2019 Commentary

It’s Time for a Global Food Revolution

By William J. Furney What’s the essential, absolute best diet for people? No one seems to know. Is it meat? Just plants, maybe? Or nuts or fish or a combination

July 27, 2019 Commentary / International Affairs

Troubled Boy-King Boris and His Unlikely Quest for World Dominance

By William J. Furney Boris Johnson’s first appearance at the despatch box in parliament this week revealed a man with a fixation on other ebullient and equally flamboyant British statesmen,

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

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

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