Am I the only person (apart from my wife) who writhed in acute embarrassment at the point in Trump’s speech to Congress last week, when the cameras played upon the poor, grieving, widow of the dead soldier, Ryan Owens, killed in Yemen on an assault on Al Queda? For years Presidents on this type of …
This is part of a posting on Tomgram, Feb 6, 2017, (Copyright 2017 Tom Engelhardt) “We have here in the United States the wealthiest cabinet in our history, a true crew of predatory capitalists, including a commerce secretary nicknamed “the king of bankruptcy” for his skills in buying up wrecked companies at staggering profits; a Treasury …
A charity has called for the Government to implement a “national sleep strategy” after a survey it commissioned found that British people are on average getting only 6.8 hours a night – around an hour less than they feel they need. The Royal Society for Public Health wants people to be given “slumber numbers” (guidance …
Last night I was gazing at the bright sliver of tropic moon in the evening sky, reflecting on the fact that that moon, and somewhere on Earth a similar reflection of the sun upon it, have been in existence for nigh on three billion years, month in, month out. Our earliest ancestors witnessed the same …
In Britain Conservatives, set on “reducing the size of government” have outsourced almost everything able to be outsourced, even many aspects of military life. A handful of huge private contractors undertake nearly all the tasks that used to be done by lower level government employees, including in healthcare, education, recruitment – the list goes on …
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