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NEW PODCASTS AND YOUTUBE VIDEOS ARE LIVE

Before the summer and then in the past weeks, I have been invited to record multiple podcast radio shows on different topics. I have been invited to talk about international development cooperation, about issues in Africa and Latin America, about leadership and about...

ANTIVAXXERS

COVID travelling across Europe was not that much of a hassle. In almost all cases showing our CDC cards as proof of full vaccination was sufficient. In a few places we had to turn to rapid tests as well to be able to enter and dine indoors. In Portugal and then again...

EUROPEAN VACATION

  I put the newsletter on a summer hiatus as we recently returned from almost six weeks away, travelling across Iceland, and then on to Germany, the Czech Republic, Vienna Austria, and finally Portugal. Not sure why, particularly in the case of Portugal.  We’d...

So Conflicted About the News from Afghanistan

Today the news reported the criticisms of former president George W. Bush about the withdrawal from the Forever War of Afghanistan. While I take that sort of chatter and much of the rest that has rebounded from different Republican circles with grains of salt, at...