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The accounts of Wednesday Night Salons in chronological order appear below. The task of archiving them is on-going . As stated elsewhere, it was not until the early 90s that we began to keep weekly records of discussions, therefore, there are, unfortunately, major gaps in the earlier chronicles.
Most, but not all, accounts until 2014 were written by our late Scribe, Herb Bercovitz, and edited as required, by Diana, however a number of other Wednesday Nighters also contributed their note-keeping talents on occasions when Herb was absent. Once Herb was no longer up to the task, no-one volunteered to execute the task with such absolute fidelity. Then COVID invaded our weekly gathering and pushed us to ZOOM, where we remain, and since then, the entries for Wednesday Night consist only of the “Prologues”. Chatham House rules prevail!

Wednesday Night #2140
March 22, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2140

WORLD WATER DAY! UN warns of ‘draining humanity’s lifeblood’ amid worsening water scarcity 22 — 24 Mar 2023, New ...

Wednesday Night #2139
March 15, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2139

BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH or, if you are a faithful follower of Heather Cox Richardson, take comfort in the anniversary o ...

Wednesday Night #2138
March 8, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2138

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY! The Washington Post greets the day with this: Single women take an outsize role i ...

Wednesday Night #2137
March 1, 2023, 1 Comment

The Wednesday Night Book Club The first half hour of last week was devoted to a most diverting conversation about espion ...

Wednesday Night #2136
February 22, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2136

One month ago, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ organization moved the seconds hand of the Doomsday Clock closer ...

Wednesday Night #2135
February 15, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2135

News of the death toll (estimated at well over 40,000) and devastation wreaked in Turkey/Turkiye and Syria by last week& ...

Wednesday Night #2134
February 8, 2023, 1 Comment

Horrific news from Turkey and Syria – the death toll now over 12,000 and climbing. Turkey and Syria earthquake dea ...

Wednesday Night #2133
February 1, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2133

As Putin’s War rages in Ukraine, the upcoming anniversary of the Yalta Conference (4-11 February 1945) is a remind ...

Wednesday Night #2132
January 25, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2132

Jan. 22, 1973: The day that changed America Jan. 22, 1973, was the day Henry Kissinger flew to Paris to end the Vietnam ...

Wednesday Night #2131
January 18, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2131

The annual WEF (Davos) meeting runs this week (16-20 January) under the theme ‘Cooperation in a Fragmented World’. P ...