Getting Old is Not For Weak-hearted
Whenever I picture myself in my head, it’s always somewhere in the general age range of when this photo (below)
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Zelenskyy makes pleas to Congress and the White House for more aid
“Today I’m in Washington to strengthen our coalition to defend Ukrainian children, families, our homes, freedom and democracy in the world,” Zelenskyy told reporters as he stood with Biden in the White House’s Oval Office in the afternoon. It was Zelenskyy’s sixth meeting with Biden since the Russian invasion.
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On Sleep: I’ve tried everything, and here’s what works
A few years ago when I was still living in Kyiv, I woke up to a ringing phone and instantly realized that I was late for work. What I didn’t get at first was how late. There was worry in my friend Vira’s voice when she asked if I was okay, and when I assured her that I’d get there as soon as possible she stopped me and said I didn’t need to come: it was 7 in the evening, and the day was already over.
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Missing the Point: Challenging Our Core Assumptions
We need our own arsenal of nuclear weapons, more scary than anyone else’s, because “no one wins a nuclear war” and “mutually assured destruction” was the only deterrent to their use.
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Letters to Jim: June Gloom? Not Yet
It’s June, it’s summer, and it is time to sit poolside and get caught up on what my readers have
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Rushing to Judgment: Russia Committed Genocide in Ukraine
Since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in late-February about 3,400 civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations Human Rights
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Putin’s Humpty-Dumpty Empire
Marking the end of the Cold War, in 1991 members of the Soviet Union broke their 70-year-old empire into 15 independent nations. In 2014, beginning with his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin began putting the pieces back together again.
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Nuclear war could be on the horizon, analysts warn
The Doomsday Clock is at 100 seconds to midnight. Russian president Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade neighboring Ukraine has put the entire world on alert not seen since the Cold War.
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Ukraine, Putin’s Death Camp for Hope
A former colleague and good friend told me a quote, “Just when you think humanity has reached its lowest point, the bottom drops out and you find that there are many, many more bottoms to come.”
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Ukraine’s Plead for a No-Fly Zone: Sometimes, you gotta be a ‘man’
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The first strategic mistake that the European Union and President Biden made with Russia’s
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