(John Heelan, UK, 04/20/19 2:16 pm)
The murder of the 29-year-old journalist, Lyra McKee, marks the end of the Good Friday Peace Agreement of 21 years ago. Not only does the murder ("accidental" of course) raise the sp
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(David Fleischer, Brazil, 04/20/19 10:27 am)
Maybe Eugenio Battaglia would like to comment on this:
https://www.politi
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(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 04/20/19 4:22 am)
I don't agree with the etiology suggested by José Ignacio Soler regarding the "Ley de Memoria Historica" passed by the Spanish Parliament in 2007.
I suppose, however, that
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(John Heelan, UK, 04/20/19 4:01 am)
One of the blights of today's world is the crocodile-teared "apology" requested and delivered for blatant politically contemporary purposes. Let us agree that "merde
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(Anthony J Candil, USA, 04/19/19 1:56 pm)
Sometimes I've been in disagreement with Ángel Viñas, but this time (April 17th) he is right.
There was no Communist conspiracy in Spain in 1936, and without having yet read An
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(Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 04/19/19 5:34 am)
Our good friend Massoud Malek (April 17th) was angry for what he considered a distorted appraisal of certain US Representatives.
If Massoud is so sensitive about how someone is viewed by publi
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(Patrick Mears, Germany, 04/19/19 4:27 am)
Although he is almost forgotten today, I would like to direct WAISers' attention to Marcel Pagnol, the French author, playwright and filmmaker, who passed away 45 years ago yesterday (April 18th)
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(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 04/19/19 3:26 am)
Mexico's socialist president Andrés M. López Obrador, known by the acronym AMLO, recently made a ridiculous and frivolous request to the King of the Spain, an empty gesture for publi
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(Angel Vinas, Belgium, 04/18/19 11:04 am)
When I left the University in 2011 the possibility of participating via Internet in a class at the not-inconsiderable distance of several thousand miles was not an everyday occurrence. Perhaps it was
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(David Pike, France, 04/18/19 5:56 am)
I respond to Enrique Torner's kind condolences and his impossible challenge: How to convey to WAIS the feelings of this city beyond what has already been expressed in every report.
I am not
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