Author: Carma Henry

       The National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) representing the Black Press of America is pleased to formally announce the launch of our 2026 “Leadership Matters” video series.  Working in collaboration with Events DC and PKB Enterprises, with corporate support, we were able to professionally produce six exclusive 30-minute video interviews with some of the nation’s most effective and transformative leaders who are making a positive difference in science and technology innovations, healthcare engagement, and political empowerment and public advocacy.

       Florida does a great job keeping higher education affordable. Our state has the lo-west public student tuition in the U.S., which is one of the reasons we were named the #1 state for higher education by U.S. News & World Report … for the 10th consecutive year.  However, that achievement comes at a substantial hidden cost to the Florida taxpayer.

  “The missile hit during the school’s morning session. In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so when U.S. and Israeli bombs began falling at around 10 a.m. on Saturday, classes were under way. At a point between 10 a.m. and 10.45 a.m., a missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls.”

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     The clips stitched together real footage of missile strikes with pop-culture heroes: Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick, Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Keanu Reeves’ relentless assassin in the John Wick films. Even SpongeBob SquarePants made an appearance. The video was immediately mocked for reflecting the militaristic fantasies of teenage boys (see Hegseth, Pete), more than that of the US starting a war.

     Nuclear weapons are bad, arguably evil, so to many bombing Iran to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon is good, or at least justifiable, despite innocent deaths of schoolgirls and many others. At the same time Trump has told Congress he is pursuing a “Civil Nuclear Deal” with Saudi Arabia but it is a deal that lacks standard guardrails that would prevent Saudi Arabia from using the technology to build a nuclear bomb. 

      When a bomb falls on a school, a hospital, or a home, no euphemism can soften the truth. Babies die in incubators. Teenage girls die in classrooms. Civilians experience violence not as a “military operation” or a “strike,” but as death delivered with impunity. Yet political leaders and military strategists insist on language that sanitizes catastrophe, as if calling mass killing an “operation” could contain the human cost.

     Are you aware the Senate has not ratified the 1977 protocols of the Geneva Conventions that prohibit attacks on civilians?

     In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, after thousands of years of violent international conflict, efforts to establish global norms for nations in connection with war, diplomacy, economic relations, and human rights accelerated. These efforts resulted in the founding of the United Nations (which develops, codifies, and enforces international law), the International Court of Justice (which settles legal disputes among nations and provides advisory opinions on legal questions), and the International Criminal Court (which investigates and tries individuals charged with the gravest crimes of concern to the international community).

     As the invasion of Iran grinds on and its boundaries expand, the House and Senate have rejected resolutions that would bring the savagery to a halt. I have to ask: What will it take to finally break the back of the Trump regime’s war madness?