ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIE… (…nos jours de grand boulot sont arrives…) Gallic common sense seems to have prevailed in the recent French presidential elections. Whether the same thing will happen with the National Assembly elections coming up in June…remains
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QUO VADIS FRANCE.. (and can it make itself –belle – again?) The forces driving the furor and turmoil of the upcoming French presidential election cycle are much the same as those that brought about –BREXIT- in the United Kingdom, and
PEACE ON EARTH…GOODWILL TO ALL… (…are in very short supply and have become a forgotten ideal) The recent events in Berlin, Germany, and in Ankara, Turkey, along with the barbarities going on in Aleppo and other parts of Syria, all
HOLDING A BIT OF REAL HISTORY IN OUR HANDS… (…seems a more meaningful thread of connectivity than anything provided by today’s technologies) This is the time of year when we go through an annual ritual of rummaging through a trove
RELEASED FROM THE DEPTHS OF A DEEP BLUE SEA… (…a small fragment may help resolve the mystery of a missing airliner) Eighteen months ago Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 mysteriously veered 180 degrees from its planned flight path to Beijing, China,
TO AID OR NOT TO AID… (it’s a problematic situation which just won’t go away) The international community, especially the Western members of it, is in a quandary about what to do about the Syrian situation. To aid or not
A CARPE DIEM MOMENT FOR MALI (…to create a mutually beneficial accord with the Tuareg) Thanks to France’s unilateral action to come to the aid of its impotent central government, Mali has been freed, for the moment, from an extreme