3 May 2010 PARIS – Ah, romantic springtime Paris! Angry farmers drove 1,100 tractors through the city of Light last week. They fired volleys of wet manure from a terrifying farm machine. Train unions, teachers, and postmen threaten more strikes. But France’s biggest headache has been financially shattered-battered Greece and […]
26 April 2010 Just as Iceland’s volcanic disruption abates, another dangerous, disruptive explosion is building up. This time, it’s a political one in Egypt, that could rock the entire Mideast. Tensions there are already extremely high with an intensifying threat of wars involving the US, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Iran. […]
19 April 2010 The crash on 10 April of an airliner carrying Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 of the nation’s political, military and economic leaders, was a heart-rending tragedy. But for Poles, tragedy is a constant. Poland’s epic, thousand-year history has always alternated between extremes of tragedy […]
