Tag: France

Review: “Empire of the Scalpel”, by Ira Rutkow

By noreply@blogger.com (Newsrust) As Rutkow observes at the beginning of his book, it is a “reasonable certainty that no one in the industrialized world will escape a disease for which effective treatment requires surgery.” I myself would probably be blind in at least one eye (due to retinal detachments), walk with a limp (due to […]

War in Ukraine: ‘We might pray for the Russian people but not for those who are directing this war’

By Gulliver CRAGG In the Eastern Orthodox Christian calendar, Sunday was the ‘Day of Forgiveness’. But Ukrainians suffering the consequences of Russia’s invasion say that this year they cannnot forgive. France 24’s Gulliver Cragg reports from Lviv, the Western Ukrainian city teeming with those who have escaped the fighting further east. Source: War in Ukraine: ‘We […]