Posts Tagged ‘lessons’

The US Seems Determined to Repeat its Mistakes Regardless of the Lessons to be Learned

Thirty years ago, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and United States president Ronald Reagan agreed that the then Soviet controlled territory of East Germany could be reunited with the western sector of the country, then known as West Germany. In exchange for this Soviet gesture, Reagan promised that NATO “would not advance one inch to […]

Okay to be #2 – Lessons for America and China

The probability of a hot war between the U.S. and China is surging every day. Both countries are adamant, confident, and feeling insecure. America is not ready to cede its global leadership and the international order it built and maintained since WW2. Meanwhile, China sees an opportunity to assert what it perceives as its rightful […]

Lessons From The National Union Of The Homeless

Above Photo: National Homeless Union Leader Ron Casanova (right) leading a takeover of an empty building in New York City on May 1, 1990. Jeff Greenburg/Skylight. ‘You Only Get What You’re Organized To Take.’ This July, unhoused leaders set up tents in front of Atlanta City Hall to demand a meeting with city officials. They […]

Ministers Warn Parents That Their Unvaccinated Children Could Lose Out On Face To Face Lessons

Government ministers are warning parents that their 12 -15 year old children could lose out on face-to-face learning unless the vaccine take-up improves. Nadhim Zahawi, the Education Secretary, and Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary are seeking to boost a low take-up of the covid jab among teenagers by writing to their parents and insisting that […]

Serious Concerns as Lessons in Normalization Hit Lebanese Schools

September 25, 2021  Source: Al Mayadeen By Rasha Reslan Lebanese parents are left distraught after their kids are “spoon-fed” the Israeli rhetoric in their textbooks. Al Mayadeen English investigates the matter in depth. Many parents described what is happening as a reductive and suspicious contrivance A parent of a Lebanese student blew the whistle after […]

Lessons learned from the escaped Palestinian political prisoners

What are the lessons we, Palestinians, have learned from the successful prison break carried out by six political prisoners earlier this month? This prison break brought Israel’s “mythical” security system to its knees. All Palestinians, whether those living in the 1967 occupied areas, or Israel’s third-class citizens, or refugees living in miserable refugee camps and […]

Lessons From 50 Years Covering Foreign Policy

Above Photo: Shutterstock. After half a century studying the issue, here’s lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly. For over 50 years I have been writing about foreign policy — mostly America’s, but those of other nations as well. I think I have a pretty good grasp of places like Turkey, China, […]

9/11 Truth: Lessons Learned? (video)

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Watch on Archive / BitChute / Minds / Odysee  Today, there’s an entire generation who have grown up in the shadow of the towers. Who have never known a world that was not haunted by the hobgoblin of terrorism. Who have never thought twice about giving up the freedoms they barely knew they […]

Divided we fall; some hard lessons for the left and Sikh activists

The recent outburst against Communists by a spokesman of India’s ruling right wing Hindu nationalist BJP should come as a wakeup call for those fighting against each other over the control of an ongoing farmers’ agitation in Punjab. Harinder Singh Kahlon had asked for throwing “comrades” behind bars for instigating the peasantry struggle. The Indian […]

Episode 408 – 9/11 Truth: Lessons Learned?

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Today, there’s an entire generation who have grown up in the shadow of the towers. Who have never known a world that was not haunted by the hobgoblin of terrorism. Who have never thought twice about giving up the freedoms they barely knew they had in […]

The True Lessons of the Afghan War

Handover ceremony at Camp Anthonic, from US Army to Afghan Special Forces, Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 2, 2021. Disagreements over how to assess the American exodus from Afghanistan have kept the pundits busy these last weeks, even though there wasn’t much to say that hadn’t been said before. For some of them, however, that was […]

Labor Day Lessons From The American Union Movement’s Hidden History

Above Photo: Members Of The United Mine Workers Of America Hold Signs During A Strike Against Alabama’s Warrior Met Coal At The BlackRock Offices In New York On July 28, 2021. Angus Mordant / Bloomberg Via Getty Images File. This year, find inspiration in the bravery and sacrifice of generation after generation of workers who […]

Iraq: Afghan Lessons and Reality

It may only be a matter of time before the states of the Middle East, whose instability has been embodied by the West led by the United States, begin to feel the echoes of the Taliban’s rapid conquest of almost all of Afghanistan. The consequences of the Sunni Islamist triumph will not be lost on […]

Pinkerton: What Would Reagan Do? Five Lessons the Gipper Could Teach Biden After Afghanistan Debacle

In view of the ongoing Kabul Debacle, it’s obvious that Joe Biden needs some pointers on leadership and management of foreign policy and national security. Even if one agrees that it was time to get out of Afghanistan—and 70 percent of Americans did, at least until a few days ago, though the polls have since softened—it’s […]

Iran draws lessons from engagement with the West

Iran draws lessons from engagement with the West – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN – After more than a decade of painstaking negotiations and a landmark nuclear deal, Iran seems to be going through careful deliberations concerning the notion of engagement with the West.  The cautious Iranian approach with respect to engaging with the West has long been […]

Lessons From The Nation’s Black Male Educators

Lessons From The Nation’s Black Male Educators To The Other 98%. What the next generation of Black male educators is learning from Black men in education today. The place of Black men in higher education, both as students and as educators, has always been precarious—even before the pandemic. A U.S. Department of Education report found […]

What Happens When a Holy and Righteous God Gets Angry? Lessons from History and the Prophet Jeremiah

The LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. (Jeremiah 10:10) by Brian ShilhavyEditor, Health Impact News God’s wrath (anger) is apparently not a very popular topic. I have received numerous emails from people over the past couple of […]

Sergei Lavrov’s Recent Speech Points to Some Important Lessons to be Learned

The Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recently made a very important speech that, unsurprisingly, received very little attention from the western media. On June 9 Mr Lavrov addressed the Primakov Readings International Forum in Moscow. In his speech, Lavrov drew attention to what he persists in calling “our western colleagues” unwillingness to accept the “objective […]

What America can learn from China – Lessons from the pandemic

On Dec 31, 2019, I checked out of an exquisite but affordable hotel in Beijing. My first trip to China was coming to a closure and I was simultaneously sad and happy. During the flight back to San Francisco, I was thinking how America’s misconception about China was as large as the Pacific Ocean below […]

Learning the Right Lessons From Meron — and Punishing Those Responsible

Ultra Orthodox Jews look at stairs with waste on it in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, April 30, 2021. Photo: REUTERS/ Ronen Zvulun Adeeb Joudeh Al Husseini is a […]

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