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Beautiful Northern Italy – the Other Land of 1,000 Lakes.
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Beautiful Northern Italy – the Other Land of 1,000 Lakes.

June 9, 2020June 30, 2023

Far from the protest and riot – ridden streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota another land famous for its lakes beckoned…

Armed Coup in Venezuela Looks Like Bay of Pigs 2020–Who Was Involved?
ArchivesWorld News

Armed Coup in Venezuela Looks Like Bay of Pigs 2020–Who Was Involved?

May 8, 2020October 24, 2023

Two American citizens have been arrested by authorities in Venezuela along with a dozen others in a failed paramilitary…

Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book

April 14, 2020June 30, 2023

Italy is where I have spent yet another major holiday, passing as I did Christmas and New Years in…

3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down

March 31, 2020June 30, 2023

I don’t think anyone needs anymore details about COVID-19. I want to take this blog post to start talking…

Life Under Quarantine
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Life Under Quarantine

March 10, 2020June 30, 2023

Life under quarantine is an interesting new challenge for a world-traveler/digital nomad. It takes a moment to set in,…

Unfurl Your Sails and Go Undaunted into the Great Adventure
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Unfurl Your Sails and Go Undaunted into the Great Adventure

February 11, 2020June 30, 2023

At this point my trip through Morocco would have been about halfway completed if not for a chance encounter…

Labeled the ‘Cold Winter Deserts of Central Asia’ IUCN Recommends 4 Additional World Heritage Sites
ArchivesDiscovery & Travel

Labeled the ‘Cold Winter Deserts of Central Asia’ IUCN Recommends 4 Additional World Heritage Sites

February 5, 2020September 25, 2023

A group of spectacular mountain and desert landscapes were targeted, assessed, and recommended by the International Union for the…

In Ghana, I Practiced a Bit of “Theological Tourism”
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

In Ghana, I Practiced a Bit of “Theological Tourism”

February 4, 2020June 30, 2023

Ghana is a primarily christian nation. There are also muslims here, but I never saw any advertisements for mosque…

But Who Will Build the Roads?
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

But Who Will Build the Roads?

January 28, 2020June 30, 2023

PICTURED: The streets above Labad, a neighborhood which literally means “the bad” and was given to it by colonial…

Gut Microbiome Could be Better at Predicting Disease and Mortality Than Our Own Genetics
ArchivesMedicine

Gut Microbiome Could be Better at Predicting Disease and Mortality Than Our Own Genetics

January 27, 2020May 29, 2024

A new paper from Tierney et al. at Harvard Medical School awaiting peer-review has found evidence that the human…

NR, NMN, and Resveratrol are the Three Most Promising Longevity Supplements: Here’s What They Do
ArchivesNutrition

NR, NMN, and Resveratrol are the Three Most Promising Longevity Supplements: Here’s What They Do

January 22, 2020November 27, 2023

The below paragraphs were taken from the first part of a two-part World at Large story on NAD+ supplementation.…

17 Years After Operation Iraqi Freedom, Is Iraq Our Enemy Once Again?
ArchivesWar

17 Years After Operation Iraqi Freedom, Is Iraq Our Enemy Once Again?

January 17, 2020January 8, 2024

Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, David Schenker, released a special briefing last Monday detailing a trip…

Afehyia Pa – Culture Shock and a Merry Ghanaian Christmas
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Afehyia Pa – Culture Shock and a Merry Ghanaian Christmas

January 14, 2020June 30, 2023

Some of the previous dispatches from Africa have included no small amount of economic, social, or political commentary, but…

By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible

January 8, 2020June 30, 2023

I always say about life that opportunities come when things are happening, and things happen when you make ripples…

Juan Guaido Unable to Secure Re-Election as National Assembly President – Can No Longer Hold Interim-Presidency.
ArchivesWorld News

Juan Guaido Unable to Secure Re-Election as National Assembly President – Can No Longer Hold Interim-Presidency.

January 7, 2020July 24, 2023

In a vote to determine the country’s next president of the National Assembly, equivalent to U.S. Speaker of the…

Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going

December 31, 2019June 30, 2023

There’s nothing quite so engaging as a good mystery. I was still in Swakopmund as I had become accustomed…

Over 1 Million Yemeni Archaeological Artifacts Stolen During War by US – Emirati Smuggling Ring
ArchivesWorld News

Over 1 Million Yemeni Archaeological Artifacts Stolen During War by US – Emirati Smuggling Ring

December 27, 2019January 22, 2024

American archaeologist and expert in Middle and Near Eastern antiquities Alexander Nagel presented findings in a workshop organized by…

Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems

December 24, 2019June 30, 2023

Swakopmund is a little slice of Germany in The middle of the desert. Afrikaners and Germans mingle together among…

DoD Test Fires Previously-Banned Ballistic Missile
ArchivesWorld News

DoD Test Fires Previously-Banned Ballistic Missile

December 18, 2019July 24, 2023

According to a press release from the Pentagon, the United States has just test-fired a prototype missile from the…

Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert
ArchivesTravel Dispatches

Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert

December 17, 2019June 30, 2023

I would love to take a mature and nuanced perspective about my first week in Namibia, but to be…

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July Tariff Revenues Generate a Meager One-Fourth of Deficit Spending Increase

Andy Corbley September 8, 2025

Despite year-over-year revenue from import duties growing 252% compared to July of last year, government inlays were dwarfed by…

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Israel’s Destruction of Palestinian Olive Trees: Security Meets Environmental Warfare

Suzanne Latre August 28, 2025

At dawn on Monday, Israeli military bulldozers entered the Nablus area. They began uprooting thousands of olive trees, which…

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US Has Bombed Somalia Over 50 Times This Year

Andy Corbley August 21, 2025

US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab southwest of the city of Bariire in central Somalia last…

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