Category Archives: Climate Change

I started the April 16th blog with the announcement that my wife and I were leaving for three weeks to Europe mainly to memorialize 80 years of liberation in two locations in Germany. The next blog will focus on that … Continue reading →

  Figure 1 –  Preparation of the World Summit on Inclusive Global Governance Plan of Action: Roadmap to 2023 (Source: Democracy without Borders) Are we ready to change global governance to face threats that do not recognize state boundaries? The … Continue reading →

(Source: Eur0m0ney) Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution provides: The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the … Continue reading →

(Source: Kosmos Journal) Next week, my wife and I are taking a trip to Europe. The main objective is to celebrate 80 years since the liberation of Bergen-Belsen by the British army on April 15, 1945. My own liberation, along … Continue reading →

 (Source: Notes from the Middle Ground Substack) When we vote to destroy a country, we shouldn’t be surprised when the country gets destroyed. By the same token, when we continue to vote to destroy many countries, we shouldn’t be surprised … Continue reading →

  https://bsky.app/profile/annsharon.bsky.social/post/3liderfg7ak25 A previous blog (November 12, 2024), titled “Resilience,” was posted a few days after President Trump won the November election. It emphasized the constitutional resilience of the American government system. That blog focused on the term limits of … Continue reading →

  (Source: ASU)  Last week’s blog was focused on learning, from the Warsaw Ghetto under Nazi occupation, how to try to oppose a deadly hostile environment in a non-violent manner. The proposed remedy was to create a modern (computer-based) Ringelblum … Continue reading →

The last few blogs explored some of the steps that the new Trump administration is taking against the roles of government that many of us cherish. My emphasis in these blogs was on academic institutions, but I went well beyond … Continue reading →

Below are two cherry-picked opinions on President Trump’s attitude toward academia and academic research, one from the NYT and the other from Forbes: Michelle Goldberg in the NYT: (Opinion | Trump Wants to Destroy All Academia, Not Just the Woke … Continue reading →

Last week’s blog and its figures emphasized three main issues related to university research: The US trails other countries in government funding for university research (The US ranks 28th; the top 10 are all developed countries with GDPs much smaller … Continue reading →