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Israeli Election: No Change

October 29, 2026   ·   0 Comments

by GWYNNE DYER According to the ‘70s anarchist slogan, ‘No matter who you vote for, the government always gets in’. That’s certainly true for the ...

Arduous times turn ever-increasing need into fear

by JAMES MATTHEWS Every 15 minutes, a person sees through the dream. Okay, I made that up. But it sounds as if it could be ...

India: Cockroach uprising

by Gwynne Dyer India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is technically not upper caste, but he does have a high opinion of himself. “When my mother ...

How do your choices for  council feel about libraries?

by James Matthews Libraries are vital to communities. People can go to a library and escape the din of life. Then, away from the day’s ...

Israel and Palestine: Thirty wasted years

Written by Gwynne Dyer Here is how the high command of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) laid down the rules for ‘remotely’ killing suspected Palestinian ...

A cat’s ‘spice of life’

Written by Keith Schell They say, “Variety is the spice of life,” and that’s very true. Sampling foods from different cultures makes eating that much ...

Iran’s virtual nukes

by GWYNNE DYER “Devastating Iran’s nuclear facilities was…very hard to do,” Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the United Nations General Assembly last month, ...

Of salt bags, salty souls, and  existential change

by James Matthews Autumn, and there’s frost on the ground in the morning. Change, seasonal and political, is descending across the province like the blanket ...

Space war and other distractions

by GWYNNE DYER When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit ...

The times change, the world moves on

by JAMES MATTHEWS The world moves on, man. The days are becoming shorter, and the light has thinned. It’s as if the daylight is somehow ...

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