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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For Gun-Weary Americans, Time for Constitutional Change
By William J. Furney The supposedly most powerful nation on the planet cannot stop its people from being killed en masse by rifles, pistols, assault rifles, submachine guns and a
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Melding Man and Machine: Why Typing with Your Brain Could Be the Next Big Thing
By William J. Furney Using fingers and thumbs to bash out messages on our phones may soon seem archaic and even, one day, primitive, if spaceman Elon Musk gets his
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Preparing for the Next Pandemic but Not Prepared to Ditch Meat
By William J. Furney Almost everyone agrees it’s a case of when, not if, another catastrophic pandemic will erupt, killing millions more and bringing the world to a shuddering halt
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World Must Hold Myanmar Junta Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity
By William J. Furney Where is Aung San Suu Kyi, and does anyone care? The thousands taking to the streets of Myanmar, risking their lives and losing them — including
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