News of Interest Jul. 2022

Invasion of Ukraine Widens Spiritual Rifts Among Christians…August to offer wide array of astronomy events… PUTIN: USA MAIN THREAT TO RUSSIA…Pelosi begins Asia tour, no mention of Taiwan…WILL SHE? USA faces new era of political violence. Threats rise…Congress on ‘high alert’…Trained, Armed and Ready. To Teach Kindergarten…More teachers carrying guns… How Pandemic Changed Americans’ HealthContinue reading “News of Interest Jul. 2022”

Afghanistan: From ‘The Girl Next Door’ to ‘Person of Interest’ (Videos)

IRSHAD SALIM: MY four video comments on Afghanistan as I saw it (Sep. 2021 thru Jun 2022) -after the US-led hurried exit -from an ‘endless war’, in the summer of 2021: PS: UK’s Foreign Office admits multiple errors over its handling of Britain’s exit from Afghanistan. According to conservative estimates, the US-led war in AfghanistanContinue reading “Afghanistan: From ‘The Girl Next Door’ to ‘Person of Interest’ (Videos)”

Kazi Nazrul Islam’s ‘Bidrohi’ (The Rebel) English Translation

The Rebel: English translation of revolutionary poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s famous poem ‘Bidrohi’ by Kabir Chowdhury: Say, Valiant,Say: High is my head! Looking at my headIs cast down the great Himalayan peak!Say, Valiant,Say: Ripping apart the wide sky of the universe,Leaving behind the moon, the sun, the planetsand the starsPiercing the earth and the heavens,PushingContinue reading “Kazi Nazrul Islam’s ‘Bidrohi’ (The Rebel) English Translation”

How to Defend Democracy from Itself: On Steve Erickson’s “American Stutter, 2019–2021”

Charles Taylor in the Los Angeles Review of Books: American Stutter, 2019–2021, novelist Steve Erickson’s journal of our ongoing plague year — the everything-at-once-all-the-time mash-up of election, pandemic, and still-unresolved attempted coup — springs from a clarifying rage that not only scorns right-wing perfidy but also looks askance at liberal good intentions (and their too-oftenContinue reading “How to Defend Democracy from Itself: On Steve Erickson’s “American Stutter, 2019–2021””

At Wipro, Rishad Premji Introduces Five Habits in His Quest For a High-Performing Culture

IMAGINEERING: Cultural change is a prominent agenda item for most CEOs, as it is one of the most challenging aspects of an organizational transformation to execute—and sustain. Rishad Premji, the executive chairman of global technology services company Wipro –it has more than 220,000 employees across six continents, wants to promote cultural change at the 77-year-oldContinue reading “At Wipro, Rishad Premji Introduces Five Habits in His Quest For a High-Performing Culture”