View from the Edge

Peter Riva of Gila has offered his many years of columns for this online newspaper. His writings have been published in East Coast newspapers, and he decided to share them with me and you, our readers.

What Is Syria All About?

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - June 7, 2013

To understand why Syria is not merely another “Arab Spring,” you have to look beyond oil, oil pipelines (for example from Kirkuk in Iraq to Banias port in Syr-- Continue reading

Getting What You Didn’t Ask For

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - May 30, 2013

The nation that does not know what it wants, gets what it doesn’t want. You don’t go to the doctor and say, "I don’t want to have a broken-- Continue reading

Tornadoes, The Poster Child of Climate Change

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - May 23, 2013

We lived in Amenia Union, NY for almost 20 years. Before that I lived in Manhattan and decades ago grew up dealing with hurricanes every summer, severe weather along the-- Continue reading

The Things We (Must) Eat

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - May 15, 2013

The UN says that eating insects would be good for the environment and healthy for you. Headline catching wasn’t it? Oh, dear, shudder, shudder people thought. Littl-- Continue reading

Connecting The Dots

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - April 25, 2013

Let me see... A man, here as a student with state aid, his family receiving welfare from the Commonwealth, leaves college without a job, with only a green card, gets a-- Continue reading

Week After Week- Violence

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - April 19, 2013

Part of the problem with violence on American streets is that we all want someone – anyone – to do something about it.

We want laws - but that mean-- Continue reading

Forests Are Not Just Trees

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - April 10,2013

Forests are complicated places. For the past few decades, scientists and academics have been trying to better understand the links between forests and society, the econo-- Continue reading

“Guns: It’s The Constitution Stupid.”

Category: View from the Edge

by Peter Riva - April 3, 2013

“We tell gun owners, ‘There’s a time to hunt deer.' And the next election is the time to hunt Democrats,’” said Dudley Brown, t-- Continue reading

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