On March 28, 2002, the U.N. Security Council established the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) to promote peace and stability in that country and thereafter that mandate annually has...
The New York Times recently published commentaries on Herbie Hancock’s jazz music from 11 jazz musicians, writers and critics. Here are Herbie’s tunes that they listed as ones that would ma...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2023/05/05/loving-herbie-hancocks-jazz-music/
A New York Times editorial starts with the factual assertion that “30 men . . . still imprisoned at the U.S. naval base whose name has become synonymous with American shame.” Although Presid...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2023/04/29/u-s-should-release-all-guantanamo-prisoners-and-close-down/
As discussed in a prior post, New York Times’ columnist Ross Douthat argues that the defining challenge of the 21st century is declining population in many of the world’s countries. Skepti...
Ross Douthat, a New York Times columnist, asserts that at least one of the defining challenges of the current century is “the birth dearth, the population bust, the old age of the world.” Thi...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2023/01/28/another-defining-challenge-of-the-21st-century/
Joe Biden, who just turned 80, will be 86 in 2028 should he be re-elected and serve another four-year term as U.S. President. This has prompted political speculation whether his age is or should ...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2022/11/21/memory-issues-for-people-in-their-eighties/
On November 3, 2022, the U.N. General Assembly again condemned the U.S. embargo (blockade) of Cuba. The vote this time for the Cuban resolution was 185 to 2 (with the U.S. and Israel voting again...
“Hurricane Ian caused great devastation . The power grid was damaged, and the electrical system collapsed. Over four thousand homes have been completely destroyed or badly damaged. . . . In the...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2022/10/02/hurricane-damaged-cuba-needs-immediate-u-s-recovery-help/
The blog previously has discussed the court’s decision last week to release on November 1 certain information about the jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial and the October 28th Don Lemon program ...
https://dwkcommentaries.com/2021/11/02/more-details-on-jurors-comments-on-derek-chauvin-trial/
There have been four recent developments in the state criminal cases over the killing of George Floyd: (a) the state trial court’s delaying the criminal trial of the other three defendants (T...