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

     Which brings us directly to Tillich’s varieties of angst, all three of which coat with a thick paralyzing sludge the insane assumptions of nuclear deterrence. We assume nine nuclear powers can go on forever without making a fatal mistake. We assume that 900 nuclear weapons make us more secure than 600 nuclear weapons, and if another country has 1200 nuclear weapons, we cannot be secure unless we can field 1600. We build; they build. The masters of war achieve prosperous quarterly returns as the Union of Concerned Scientists keeps moving the Doomsday clock closer to zero. 

     On January 27, 2026, the editors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of their famous “Doomsday Clock” to 85 seconds to midnight―the closest setting, since the appearance of the clock in 1946, to nuclear annihilation.

     With the deployment of ICE troops in Minnesota the exploitation goes on. Pam Bondi made that clear in her January 24 letter to Governor Tim Walz, in which she demanded access to voter rolls as a condition for removing federal forces. Voter rolls have nothing to do with immigration.

       As Black History Month unfolds, this week reminds us that progress has never been accidental. It has always been pushed forward—by students who refused to accept second-class citizenship, by writers who told the truth about Black life, and by everyday people whose quiet resolve shook the nation.