Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

     Democrats lost two presidential elections to a charlatan and the party’s approval rating is abysmal. A Wall Street Journal poll conducted in July showed their favorability at only 33%. They should understand why they lost voter confidence and recognize how it happened.

    The US has forged a peace proposal with Russia that, as the French are putting it, amounts to Ukraine’s capitulation. For President Volodymyr Zelensky, the worst possible world stares him in the face—a world in which Ukraine must sacrifice territory and self-defense to gain something resembling peace, and Russia must sacrifice nothing yet gain everything it has asked for and more. It is a dangerous moment for Ukraine in more ways than one. An investigation into corruption in Ukraine has found that allies of the president have enriched themselves during the war.

      My interest in conflict and war goes back decades. In 1961, the film Failsafe starring Henry Fonda as the U.S. president presented a dire warning about the nuclear arms race taking off. It revealed our vulnerability: human error, miscommunication, and technological failure. The tragic ending was shocking. Film director Kathryn Bigelow’s new A House of Dynamite is equally gripping, demonstrating to viewers the reality of our modern world, our closeness to global destruction. Failsafe was alarming. House of Dynamite is foreshadowing.

     When we think of power, the word itself commands that we carve the concept into something isolated and wieldable: a sword, a gun, a scepter. Power means power over. There is no basic concept of power – no word for power in the English language – that also means collaboration, collective participation: people working together, individually empowered at the same time that they are part of a larger whole.

Dale V.C. Holness, former Mayor of Broward County and champion for working families, officially launched his campaign for Congress in Florida’s 20th Congressional District. A lifelong Democrat and veteran public servant, Holness has a proven record of delivering bold solutions, expanding opportunity, and transforming communities. He is running to bring the same leadership to the United States House of Representatives.

        The first “massage” was only the beginning. In the years after, Lisa’s relationship with Epstein grew into something far more intricate than a predator and prey. She visited his Manhattan mansion. She went to his office. Some sessions were professional, other times not. Sometimes they talked for hours. Other times, she knew it would end in abuse. But the environment never felt entirely hostile: he maintained the guise of mentorship.

     The holidays are coming, and many financially strapped families are considering how to responsibly manage their use of credit while still enjoying seasonal gatherings, presents, feasts and toasts of glad tidings for all. The yuletide season is also a time to especially avoid predatory lenders that offer workers quick access to cash via loans with triple-digit interest rates and hidden fees that can wreck their finances for months.