Tag Archives: peace

Intending to suck out the soul of Ukraine, yet Ukrainians resist despite betrayals

Posted on December 4, 2025 by borderslynn

Looking back to Putin taking Crimea: Ukraine war: ten years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky Published: March 15, 2024 3.01pm GMT Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham ……….This does not mean, however, that Russia is in any … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged america, betrayals, cruelty, Derkach, Europe, greed, Guiliani, Lukoil, peace, Putin, sanctions, Senegal, shadow fleet, traps, Trump plan, Ukrainians, US-Russia | Leave a comment

Ukraine and God

Posted on June 29, 2025 by borderslynn

I am reproducing a Ukrainian essay which I found highly moving but also a lesson of how war can push you to your God, rather than push your belief away.

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged aggression, beliefs, cruelty, faith, feeling alone, God, grief, hate, injustice, loss, love, pain, peace, sovereign state, suffering, ukraine, war | Leave a comment

Remembering Jimmy Carter

Posted on December 31, 2024 by borderslynn

As flags fly at half mast for 30 days in mourning the death of Jimmy Carter, who lived to an amazing age of 100 years, we are being reminded through the media of his landmark successes as a President, and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1978, anti semitism, Anwar Sadat, Camp David, egypt, IDF, israel, Jimmy Carter, KKK, Likud, Menachem Begin, Palestine, peace, Peace Accord | Leave a comment

Lambs to the Slaughter

Posted on November 14, 2024 by borderslynn

I am now reading Ronen Bergman’s book, ‘Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations’. It is an illuminating book. So much to learn about how we humans damage each other beyond repair until we yearn to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged assassination, fear, hatred, hostility, loathing, love, mass murder, Nazis, Palestine, peace, retribution, revenge, Templers, torment, war, WW2 | Leave a comment

US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow

Posted on May 20, 2024 by borderslynn

In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1918 to 1950s, Africa, African Americans, American Dream, apartheid, British, complicit in human harm, democracy, discrimination, exclusion, FDR, French, human rights, israel, Jim Crow, Jordan, Kant, League of Nations, left vs right, marginalising, Palestinians, peace, peace vision, polarization, populism, Republicans, socialist, subjugation, utopia, war, welfare state, white supremacy, WW1, WWII | Leave a comment

Respecting Borders?

Posted on April 11, 2023 by borderslynn

In 2016, Ann Pettifor wrote, in her book The Production of Money, that if we allow the banking system to continue with no progressive changes, then: The recurring financial crises of the last four decades will roll on relentlessly and … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged alliances, catastrophe, climate change, conflict, debt, diplomacy, history, infrastructure, invasions, monetary systems, nomads, peace, trade, violence, war | Leave a comment