It’s About Time

Guest Post by Edward Curtin

Isn’t it always?

With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible.  I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.

I look down at my great-uncle’s gold Elgin pocket watch from the 19th century.  His name was John Patrick Whalen, an Irish immigrant to the US who fled England’s colonialist created famine in Ireland.

It tells me it is 5:15 PM on April 21, 2022, a date, coincidentally, with a history.

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