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Brutal Repression in El Salvador
By Daniel Nardini While the U.S. news media has been concentrating on Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s draconian lock-downs of Shanghai and Shenzhen, no real attention is being drawn… Read more
How Cuba’s Health Care System Really Stinks
By Daniel Nardini Just a few days after our tour group arrived in Cuba, half the group got eye infections. The tour operators were so worried that they took all… Read more
United States: Defender of Smaller Nations
By Daniel Nardini When I lived in Seoul, South Korea, I saw from time to time American soldiers on the subway, driving on the highway in U.S. military vehicles, and… Read more
Striking Closer to Home Than We Think
By Daniel Nardini When we think about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, we are thinking of something that is far off in Europe. We have to remember that Russia is… Read more
How Soon We Forget
By Daniel Nardini For a year, I did not bother to wear a mask when I went shopping, met with people, or went to the bank. Despite all of the… Read more
The Colombia-Venezuela Border War
By Daniel Nardini I find it ironic that the U.S. government is trying to negotiate an oil deal with the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro while some former Colombian… Read more
The Free World, The Not Free World
By Daniel Nardini As like everyone else, I get up from bed, I take my wife to work, I do grocery shopping or do errands like pay bills and take… Read more
Substituting Venezuelan Oil for Russian Oil
By Daniel Nardini For the life of me, I cannot understand why the U.S. President Joe Biden administration decided to scotch the oil pipeline from Canada and end all shale… Read more
China and Russia’s Coming Collapse
By Daniel Nardini As Russia’s bloody war in the Ukraine escalates, it is becoming clear that Russia’s once vaunted military is not as good as it had made itself out… Read more
Beware the Mandatory Death Sentences in: Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore
By Daniel Nardini When I went to both Brunei and Malaysia in Southeast Asia for holiday, the authorities there made it plain on all of the immigration forms: “Death to… Read more »