From the Editors - 17 to 24 March 2024

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News & Views this week

Our feature
Luis Oliveros lifts our spirits with stunning photographs of "Eagles, and More" - photos he took recently during a visit to the Hortobágy Natural Park in Hungary.

Views shared by our members :

John Gilmartin meditates on a recent NY Times article, "Led by Its Youth, US Sinks in World Happiness Report" on the report's implications for young people, but also questions what constitutes 'happiness', based on his recollections of life in Denmark and Mexico.

Richard Morgan turns the downsides of the 'Growth Economy' into poetry. 

Ken Gibbs leads us "Between clocks and friends" and tells us how friends led him to discover a piece of important history in a village church.  

Ramesh Shrestha rings the "Alarm bell: time to wake up, getting late."

Gianni Murzi offers us his recipe for "Counteracting Doom and Gloom Feelings".

Niloufar Pourzand helps us celebrate Nowruz and shares her family's Nowruz Table.

News shared by our members:

James Elder is back in Gaza and Niloufar Pourzand shares two of his latest posts on Instagram - Nasser Hospital and the Children of Rafah

The NY Times agrees with UN agencies that Famine is imminent in northern Gaza.  The question is now only whether the world is too late to avert disaster.   

Turning progress for women upside down, The Gambia's legislature has taken the next to final step in reversing the ban on FGM. Might other countries follow this disastrous lead?

Trade vs. public health - Robert Cohen shares an investigation into how US baby formula manufacturers and the US government pushed back against marketing regulations in developing countries.  

Baquer Namazi shares the story of how peace advocates are helping the Ethiopian diaspora recover from the fractures of the war.

Lighter stuff :

Need a break from the news gloom?  Fouad Kronfol shares "A Little Hand Dance Show"

And more - Catherine Russell on Face the Nation, the SG speaks on the coming famine in Gaza, WHO and Gavi push ahead on HPV vaccinations, UNRWA's staff harassed in the West Bank, another school year is starting in Afghanistan without any girls, and a coming online UNJSPF session on "Two-track Essentials". 

Tom McDermott

Editor for this week