(Tor Guimaraes, USA, 11/29/23 3:03 am)
John Eipper asked, "how did WAIS discussions inform your arrival at the specific Guimaraes religion of God the Universe?"
It did not. Sixty plus years of striving to find a true God b
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Three Days in North Macedonia
(Muqtedar Khan, USA, 11/29/23 2:06 am)
On my short visit to North Macedonia, I had the opportunity to engage with the students, academic leaders and faculty of International Balkan University, and with civic and business leaders of the Rot
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Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam: Africa`s Largest
(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 11/29/23 1:51 am)
The Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia was built by WeBuild, the former Salini Impregilo, a huge Italian company working in 110 countries around the world constructing bridges, highways, dams, bridges, galle
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Posts on 11/28/23
Pro-Palestinian Social Media Posts Taken Down under Israeli Pressure
(Massoud Malek, USA, 11/28/23 7:30 am)
As the war in Gaza rages for a second month, violence of a different kind is erupting across the United States. Bias attacks against American Jews, Muslims and Arabs have risen to levels not seen in y
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The Deaths of Gazan Civilians are Not Merely "Collateral Damage"
(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 11/28/23 4:12 am)
I don't mind at all when people disagree with me. On the contrary, respectful disagreement, comparing divergent points of view, is how we learn. It's the soul of WAIS and of all scholarly en
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Oleh Sentsov Video Shows Why Ukraine will Win
(Istvan Simon, USA, 11/28/23 3:41 am)
Many thanks to Cameron Sawyer (November 27th) for his forwarding the video of the Ukrainian unit fighting their Russian assailants in the trenches. It is in fact a glimpse of why the Ukrainians are g
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Spanish Democracy is Flawed but Not in Danger of Collapsing
(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 11/28/23 3:26 am)
Antonio Candil (November 23rd) wrote that "Spain became a constitutional monarchy, but the monarch was not elected by the Spaniards." This idea is somewhat strange, because no constitutiona
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Posts on 11/27/23
Who Said "One Death is a Tragedy, One Million a Statistic"?
(Holger Terp, Denmark, 11/27/23 3:02 am)
Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!
--Kurt Tucholsky 1890-1935
The death of one man: that is a catastro
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Oleh Sentsov, Video Chronicler of War
(Cameron Sawyer, USA, 11/27/23 2:38 am)
WAISers may know that I follow the Ukraine War closely; I try to get as much of my information from primary sources on both sides as possible, since what we get in our media is so propagandized and un
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Posts on 11/26/23
War Clouds Gather Again in Ethiopia
(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 11/26/23 10:31 am)
A new war is developing in Ethiopia, a country of 121 million inhabitants. This large country is divided into 10 regional/ethnic states plus two autonomous cities, Addis Ababa and Dire Daua.
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