Monthly Archives: May 2022

John Ross, Globetrotter: Russia is the world’s largest wheat exporter, accounting for almost three times as much of world exports as Ukraine, 18 percent compared to 7 percent. Second, and even more important, is the situation with fertilizers. Russia is the world’s … Continue reading →

Most British diplomats and Foreign Office experts could not see the Soviets as fully European—it was customary to suggest that they displayed Oriental features, torn between extremes of humanity and cruelty. They presumably inclined toward tyranny, possessed a peasant mentality, … Continue reading →

Baxley teacher to run as Republican candidate for Ga. governor

Wall Street Journal: Ms. Gomez, a farm supervisor, was also waiting outside for her children. She said she was one of numerous parents who began encouraging—first politely, and then with more urgency—police and other law enforcement to enter the school … Continue reading →

Tribune: Unlike most years, the recent Queen’s Speech did not pass without remark in Ireland. Delivered by the colonel-in-chief of the Parachute Regiment, whose soldiers killed fourteen on Bloody Sunday and nine in the Ballymurphy Massacre, Prince Charles ventriloquised a Tory ultimatum: … Continue reading →

Guardian: The historian Adam Tooze said: “The war dominates everything. The nuclear escalation risk is not being priced in. This doesn’t feel like cold war. It’s hard to think of a time during the cold war when the US openly announced its … Continue reading →

Lieutenant Chris Olivarez, spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety: “What we do know, at that point, the shooter was able to make entry into a classroom, barricaded himself inside that classroom. And again, just begin shooting numerous children … Continue reading →

Guardian: Speaking to the press at the Cannes film festival premiere of his new film Crimes of the Future, Cronenberg referred specifically to attempts to overturn Roe v Wade. “In Canada … we think everyone in the US is completely insane. … Continue reading →

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