Author: Carma Henry

I got a feeling we ain’t seen nothing yet!

“ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!” – Donald J. Trump

     Interestingly, the tariff announcement did not apply to Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and Belarus, supposedly because they don’t run a trade surplus with the US. Except that Russia does.

     Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the single most urgent, and most neglected, issue in US-China relations. While “fully aware of how absurd it can sound calling on the two of them to trust each other to collaborate,” collaboration is essential “to create a global architecture of trust and governance over these emerging superintelligent computers.” Otherwise, they and the robots they create will surpass us, with unpredictable consequences in trade, warfare, labor, and much else.

     This growing interest in nuclear weapons is especially noticeable in Europe, where Trump’s berating of NATO and Putin’s threats of nuclear attack are particularly unsettling. Although Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, dismissed any notion of Germany developing its own nuclear weapons, he has stated that it must explore “whether nuclear sharing, or at least nuclear security from the UK and France, could also apply to us.” Furthermore, several German think tank experts have floated the idea of building the infrastructure that, if necessary, could produce German nuclear weapons.

       In 1790 Edmund Burke, founder of conservatism, said, “Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.” Enter Trump, and the Christian Nationalists, who are pulling down government institutions. Built by American democracy with deliberation and foresight, those institutions have served the common good for over 200 years.

       But the women of Liberia, faced with years of a brutal war and a dictatorial rule, rose up in nonviolent noncooperation and stopped the war even as they gained democracy.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Maryland lawmakers have approved Senate Bill 587, authorizing the creation of the Maryland Reparations Commission.

Imagine a vibrant evening where the power of spoken word ignites the soul and connects us to our shared humanity. That’s the vision behind Poetic Justice: The Artistic Experience, taking place at the historic Island SPACE Caribbean Museum on Friday, April 26, from 6 to 10 p.m. Learn more at islandspacefl.org/poetic25.

       Land-based reparations are also a form of redress for the territorial theft of colonialism.