At the Polish border the past seems inescapable. A discernible weight of history settles all around you, with each historical epoch that lay before us leaving its indelible mark on a nation that has stood the test of time. Hitler’s brutal German troops from the West, the Soviet Red Army
Under the blanket of the hushed Ethiopian night, one of the world’s most pressing conflicts has miraculously come to an unanticipated standstill. Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict, which has blighted the East African nation for the last two years, appears to have attested its ultimate denouement after both sides of the quarrel
Marx wrote that history repeats itself first as a tragedy, then as a farce. We now witness a grim farce indeed as the UN now discusses whether to permit an American intervention in Haiti – the fourth since 1913 and the third in the past thirty years. Haiti hosted UN
“Shortages of food, oil, and medicine are not uncommon on the island, though they have reportedly never been this bad before”
