January 2017

And we’re off

The new year of 2017 rings in with a horrifying bang, as one attacker (or is it more?) apparently with a Kalishnikov automatic rifle, stormed into a popular nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey and murdered at least 39 people celebrating New Year’s Eve. Turkey has had a whole lot of bad crap of late, including bombings, the assassination of the Russian Ambassador, a near-coup, millions of refugees from nearby Syria… in short, a witches’ brew of much of the world’s instability, sitting conveniently at a junction between Europe and Asia, bordering Greece and Bulgaria on the European side, and on its...

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