Viet Man

In 2020, a crime was detected ...

Condoms In Vietnam

 ......that has set birth control and safe sex in Vietnam back a decade or so.

Tactical Retreat Or Total Defeat?

The US led coalition troops have scrambled in recent weeks to get out of Afghanistan, before the arbitrary 11th of September 2021 deadline for their withdrawal, a date set by US President Biden in April 2020 .....

The US Embassy Evacuated At The Fall Of Saigon 1975.

 

.... but also before the inevitable Taliban takeover of Kabul completed its victory ... they have failed the second part, when the Taliban took over on Sunday the 15th ... but it was hardly a surprise was it?

Coward Of The Country

Broward County Sheriff's Deputy, Scot Peterson was the armed school resource officer, at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the mass shooting. In all, four sheriffs deputies failed to enter the school to stop the gunman Nikolas Cruz's rampage, one that cost the lives of 17 students and teachers.

Deputy Scot Peterson - Long Serving Officer

However it was just officer Peterson who was publicly branded as the 'coward' of Broward county, by President Trump on National TV.

Letters From The Dead

I have blogged before about how the past can sometimes speak eloquently to us, even over the millennia, as well as stories of brave soldiers from the US and other countries.

Sergeant Steve Flaherty

So maybe it should be no surprise that letters from a conflict closer in time can do the same.

Nobel Prize, Ignoble Politics

China's behaviour over the award of the Noble Peace prize to Liu Xiaobo one of their own citizens, but one who is in prison for protesting for human rights, has been nothing less than shameful

..... but the behaviour of some of their 'friends' around the world has been equally disgraceful.