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DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN?

Or hacking a way through the woods. My last post here was 8 September. My last article in Politicsweb was on the 1st of September and the previous article on 5 August was entitled a A Coalition of Liars - which you should read if you haven’t already done so. At that time Israel was under global assault which only worsened over the next few weeks.

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This and That

I write, therefore I am. Berger’s variation on cogito ergo sum: scribo ergo sum (I write, therefore I am.)

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In Pursuit of Sanity and Survival

The basics again and a call to action As I write this 2 major wars affecting Western nations are in progress and a number of inter- and intra-state conflicts, equally or more devastating, are ongoing. The dominant media narratives do not correlate with the severity or suffering of these breakdowns in human cooperation but rather with the current ideological, ethnic and power struggles withi…

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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

A brief overview of the campaign of libel and slander against Israel and how the ordinary citizen can navigate these treacherous waters As far as I can see this title is about as good a description of the surreal, global political scene as any other. I have spent many decades of my life in one way or another engaged in politics. I don’t remember a global scenario more volatile and irrational than the one we’re confronting right now.

Reposts 0 Jul 31

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Middle East - Post War Reflections

Indeed, if the last two centuries have told us anything, it is how dangerous those who would perfect the world become when they seize power. This is does not mean that we cannot improve matters, cannot add small and even large pieces of justice and fairness to human interactions, but at some fundamental level, as this disquieting twentieth century has p…

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Apocalypse Deferred?

Trump's fateful decision On Friday, 13 June Israel initiated Operation 'Rising Lion' with a combination of intelligence-driven air assaults and ground operations that within a few day had incapacitated much of Iran's nuclear capacity at the Natanz and Isfahan plants and elsewhere, decapitated the top political, military and intelligence leadership of the IRGC, eliminated at lea…

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SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE COORDINATION PROBLEM

The Middle East, the biological roots of political Churn and some light relief Before I kick off with with the main topic a brief welcome to the new subscribers. I hope you find some interest, even enlightenment, in this blog. As I learn the technicalities better I will ensure that you will be able to contribute to the discussion with the minimum of technical hurdles and stress.

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An Early Reconnaissance

Getting ducks in a row and setting the stage for future posts In my invitation to subscribe I said the areas that interestested me most were Science, Politics and History but that I would not be limited by subject matter and would include any material which seemed important or interesting.

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Notification to Subscribers

Mike Berger Thank you to my Founder Subscribers. The fact that you had interest (and faith!) enough to subscribe to my stumbling first attempts means a lot to me.

Reposts 0 Oct 28

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Democracy

Freaks and Founders I’m starting this post with the Story of Jamie Beaton, a 29 year-old man who decided early on to stand out from his fellows by being the perfect achiever to incomprehensible excess.

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A Personal Political Odyssey

And Some Extras Looking back my first encounter with anything remotely political was a birthday present in the form of a framed version of Kipling’s poem ‘If’’ nailed firmly to the wall above my bed. Presumably my mother hoped that through some paranormal osmotic process, the moral and practical injunctions of the poem would filter down into my 6 year old head. They d…

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