2021 saw a prolongation of the chaos and instability of 2020: a continuing public health emergency, economic stagnation, political turmoil and social unrest. Our final meeting of the year was an open forum giving us all an opportunity for a review of these cataclysmic events and a preview of what to expect in 2022. Will Omicron and still deadlier COVID variants deepen the pandemic crisis? Can … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2021
THE FAR RIGHT THREAT: what it represents and how to fight it.
On January 6th this year, in an attempt to overturn the result of the US presidential election, Donald Trump instigated an attack by a far-right mob on the joint session of Congress. Racists, white supremacists, conspiracists, fascists and an assortment of sundry eccentrics marched on the Capitol building in Washington. This was just one illustration of a process that is under way on a … [Read more...]