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  • Straightforward?

    Friday’s White House meeting with Trump, JD Vance, Zelensky and others took place the day after a significant date – February 27. It was the tenth anniversary of the murder of Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. Nemtsov was in his time the most straightforward and outspoken critic of Putin and the Putin regime. But he fell…

  • “Lot of folks see the celebrity side, but they don’t see the down side”

    That was Reverend Al Sharptons comment to The Gospel of Matthew chapter 20, verses 20 -22, as he spoke over Trump Times and America’s Black. Dr. Martin Luther King’s followers especially are on guard. This interesting message by Al Sharpton with a lot of black history in it, is to be found on this clip…

  • “Attention capitalism”?

    This was an interesting essay. Just a quote from the beginning of a quite long article behind a payment wall: “I try to hold people’s attention for a living. For more than 13 years, I’ve been hosting a cable news show, and when I’m not doing that, I spend a lot of time alternating between…

  • The kindness of the internet..

    The Internet started out as a fairly friendly and generous medium. As time has gone by, it has become increasingly hard and demanding. Not the Internet as such, of course, but its users, operators and exploiters. Of which I am one. It feels necessary to take a break every now and then. To try yourself,…

  • A visit to Ukraine

    During a couple of weeks in september, I have been traveling – from Sweden, where I took the ferry to Gdansk in Poland. From Gdansk I took the bus to Warsaw, where I spent the night. From Warsaw I took another bus the next day to Kiev in Ukraine, The journey spanned four days, from…

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