We do still remember how Britain’s Theresa May was handling the incident that a former Russian spy and his daughter were, on British soil, badly poisoned by some substance which reminded somebody of a nerve gas which at some time … Continue reading →

During the last few days I have come twice across the claim that the USA have since 2001 been spending 32 mio $ PER HOUR on its wars, and if one calculates this a bit, one arrives at a bit … Continue reading →

In HBL of Sö 4.03.18, p.17, the very appreciable Torbjörn Kevin published a piece titled ”Hoten mot demokratin”. He based it mainly on a book by two Harvard professors, titled ”How democracies die”. The book is obviously referring to the … Continue reading →

From today’s (Sö 4.02.) Yahoo News I just learned that the USA do not intend to protect the Syrian Kurds of Afrin against the Turkish invasion. The reason seems to be that the USA have up to now talked in … Continue reading →

The film ”Dr. Strangelove …” may be so old that many readers may not know much about it, but it anyway describes how the world is wiped out by human experts who think too narrowly and eagerly within an official … Continue reading →

It is rather difficult to know from where to begin this piece – there are so many different instances of idiocy going on right now: the government wants to activate the unemployed by less-than-well-analyzed means, Nils Torvalds and HBL want … Continue reading →

In Hbl of Ons 13.12. there appeared an insändare by one Daniel Brunell, titled ”Att erkänna Jerusalem strider inte mot internationell lag”. The text contains quite a number of the usual Zionist arguments, in this case in support of Trump’s … Continue reading →

It was only last Friday that I came in Akademen over a book which aroused my interest: ”Utopia for Realists – and how we can get there” by Rutger Bregman. I bought it, and two days later I had already … Continue reading →

After having spent all of October in Germany and also needed some time to install myself again in Helsingfors, I was finally able to turn to the issues of Husis which had been piling up in my absence. And what … Continue reading →

The reader may remember that recently the UN Assembly voted with a clear majority to make the possession and/or use of nuclear weapons illegal. In order to become binding, this vote has now to be ratified by the national parliaments … Continue reading →