by Tom H. Hastings
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 19, 2022
Many attempts have been made to stop war.
Many fail.
Who has done it successfully and what can they teach us?
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https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2023/04/19/how-to-convert-a-war-to-peace-by-tom-h-hastings/
Sent to DS by the author, David R. Yale
by Diane Donovan
Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, Aug. 10, 2022
April 3, 2023
The Real Paul Makinen?
By David R. Yale
A Healthy Relationship Press, LLC
978-0-9791766-0-9, 978-0-9791766-1-6, 978-0-9791766-3-0
www.DavidRYale.Com
The Real Paul Makinen? is a novel not for those seeking quick reads, but is highly recommended for readers not daunted by complex, in-depth probes of emotional relationships, from family and work to potential loved ones.
Set in three parts, it introduces the milieu of Minneapolis in the early 1970s, where the 19-year-old Paul receives his draft notice, refuses to go, and is summarily thrown out of his parents’ house.
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by Pete Dolack
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Systemic Disorder, Mar. 29, 2023
March 30, 2023
As production is moved to ever more distant locales, with ever lower labor and environmental standards, the corporations behind these moves want all barriers to the movement of raw materials and finished products removed. Thus the era of so-called “free trade” agreements. These agreements, which are written to elevate corporations to the level of national governments (and in practice, actually above governments), have become so unpopular thanks to the efforts of grassroots activists to expose them to public scrutiny that governments have become cautious about embracing new ones.
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