War In Ukraine; A Different Perspective.
Will Keys, The 9th of May 2023 marked the Russian Victory Day celebrations in Moscow and it went down without any hitches. In his speech, Putin emphasized the immeasurable courage…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Two top news stories dominated our newspapers this week and either of them may make it to our news item of the year. The first exploded…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 7 May – Sunday 14 May: Last Sunday, foreign ministers of the Arab League member states agreed to reinstate Syria as a full member of the organisation…
Pussy Galore
In 2021, the Adult Survivors Act (ASA) was enacted in New York State. It extended the Statute of limitations for survivors of sexual offenses and abuse to 20 years and…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, This week’s Sunday papers paint a deeply depressing picture of SA today. Hospitals like Baragwanath, the largest hospital in Africa are not functioning properly because they…
The World That Was
Sunday 30 April – Sunday 7 May: Adrian Olivier, In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two drones targeted the Kremlin complex of buildings in Moscow, the attack being caught…
The Week That Was
Gerald Potash, Hello again, Monday (Workers Day) was a holiday and whereas I don’t often agree with statements from NUMSA, our largest workers’ trade union, when on Monday they declared…
Singularity – ChatGPT – Old Rupert
Let’s talk about the evolution of Artificial General Intelligence, or ‘AI’, which has been a popular topic in science fiction for decades. Futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that the “Technological Singularity,”…
The Greatest Crime of All Time
The people of this world need to understand what has just happened to us, and why, and (even more importantly) what WILL happen to us if we continue to allow…
The World That Was
Adrian Olivier, Sunday 23 April – Sunday 30 April On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden finally and formally announced his running for a second term as President of the United…