Don’t Know Much About History – Part 2
A few days ago, a friend complained that filling her Honda’s gas tank cost $80. As a retiree who doesn’t commute, she can probably absorb the rising costs. But think of the workers in those…
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Don’t Know Much About History – Part 1
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”William Faulkner, Nobel Prize Winner Western news outlets treat the current Middle East conflagration as if it exists in a vacuum, disconnected from the compounding economic disasters…
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Ancient History
When I was 18 years old I picked up a train schedule near Constance, Germany, where I was a student at an immersive German language program, and made my way 113 miles northeast through the…
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Things Fall Apart
From the Observer, a Jamaican newspaper, January 8, 2026 Bruce Golding served as Jamaica’s eighth prime minister from September 2007 to October 2011. This article was sent to Katha Hartley from a friend in Grenada,…
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Is the Arctic Sea the Key to Ending the Ukraine War?
In a recent article, a professor at the Naval Academy argues that “Trump can leverage the Arctic to end the Ukraine war.” (1) It’s clear that Trump was excited by the possibilities the article raised…
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Why Demonstrate?
“I am the one; I run the country; I am your retribution;” are the utterances of an angry, narcissistic, bully-like man who happens to be the President of OUR country. This man is exercising expanded…
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Immigration Is America’s Lifeblood – More Lies Refuted
Most people do not understand our current immigration issue. They have only heard the myths/lies propagated by right wing, xenophobic Republicans. Their rhetoric is wrong, refuted by experts who have taken the time to carefully…
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Immigration Is America’s Lifeblood – We Must Fix the System
The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. Immigration has been good for our country. But despite the widely recognized benefits, America is also a nation of xenophobia. As historian Erica Lee carefully…