International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #4 Issue #1

 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #4 Issue #1.  The theme of the issue is Memoir and Psychoanalysis with a target paper by Merle Heidi Molofky, MFA, NCPsyA and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also Review of Donnelley M. (2023). Treatment Resistance in Therapy: A Patient’s Perspective. Ireviewed be J. Christopher Fowler and a Response to Dr. Fowler by Marshall Donnelley This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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Plague More Than Five Millennia Ago Sets Back the Date of the  Earliest Outbreak

Click Here to Read:  Plague More Than Five Millennia Ago Sets Back the Date of the  Earliest Outbreak The skeletons of nomadic families unearthed in Siberia harbor  Yersinia pestis” bacteria, which challenges theories about conditions needed for the  disease to spread by Sonja Anderson on the Smithsonian Magazine website on June 18, 2026.

Scanning electron microphotograph depicting a mass of Yersinia pestis bacteria (the cause of bubbonic plague) in the foregutte of the flea vector Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories, NIAID, NIH http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/biodefense/Public/Images.htm  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal

Click Here to Read: Tracking the Crisis: Withdrawal. U.S. troops complete their withdrawal from Iraq as Trump rejects Iran’s latest peace proposal, oil climbs past $100 a barrel, and the Treasury market closes its worst quarter since 1994 on The Nation substack on October 03, 2026.

U.S. Soldiers depart Forward Operating Base Baylough, Afghanistan, June 16, 2010, to conduct a patrol. The Soldiers are from 1st Platoon, Delta Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Infantry Regiment. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. William Tremblay, U.S. Army/Released) Image: The U.S. Army.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

 

 

Where a land ethic blooms: Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours

Click Here to Read: Where a land ethic blooms: Caring for this planet entails decisions that are intimate, about our farms, our homes, our human and our wild neighbours by Craig Maier on the Aeon website.  

 Oglala National Grassland, Nebraska, USA, near Toadstool Geologic Park. Brian Kell (Bkell).  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.