Browsing: Opinions

    The fall of Roe v. Wade showed how weaponized misinformation can gut constitutional rights. That same tool is now being turned against free speech. What began as a crusade to control women’s reproductive rights is expanding into a campaign to muzzle dissent, punish satire, and intimidate the media.

   Everyone knows a truth-teller. The truth-tellers are the men and women who no one wants to speak at the Black History program, the MLK Day Program, or the Juneteenth Bar-Be-Que.    

     Campaign Nonviolence Action Days is underway an impressive 5,595+ actions and events across the United States and around the world working to “build a culture of peace and active nonviolence, free from war, poverty, racism, and environmental destruction.”

      On September 13, the British public was startled when more than 110,000 people turned out for a raucous far-right rally in London featuring racist conspiracy theories, anti-Muslim hate speech, and violent assaults upon police. Whipping up the crowd, Tommy Robinson―a popular far-right agitator, march organizer, and five-time convicted criminal―told the assemblage that British government officials believed “that Somalians, Afghans, Pakistanis, all of them, their rights supersede yours, the British public, the people that built this nation.” Signs carried by the demonstrators invoked racist and xenophobic themes, such as: “Why are white people despised when our money pays for everything?”

       Charlie Kirk’s killing – and the aftermath of grief and political outrage – are too overwhelming to ignore, even though I couldn’t possibly have anything to say that hasn’t already been said.

      One cannot examine the wars in Ukraine and Gaza without noticing certain parallels. First and foremost are the human and economic costs of aggression. Those costs are staggering, and how they might be made up is anybody’s guess, since the aggressors—Russia and Israel—are not going to pay. And the aggressors happen to be led by people judged war criminals—Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu, and their inner circles—another parallel.

     Today Republican leaders and party regulars fully endorse the Christian world view. Just a few years ago former Attorney General Bill Barr said, “Judeo-Christian moral standards are the ultimate rules for human conduct” and that “the fact is that no secular creed has emerged capable of performing the role of religion.” And the Christian-dominated Supreme Court also affirmed his belief in Christian morality with the Dobbs decision which allowed states with Christian majorities to impose their religious anti-abortion beliefs on their fellow citizens. Both fail to understand the nature of our Constitution or the origin of moral standards.

       America’s moral compass has been shattered—not simply by the actions of individuals, but by the systemic corruption and hypocrisy of its institutions. Two stories, one about the alleged assassination of Charlie Kirk and the other about Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of abuse, expose a democracy that bends law and morality to the will of the privileged.

       President Donald Trump has been told by his MAGA supporters that Black Americans are criminals, and a good campaign message could center around Trump using the United States military to fight crime in “Democrat” states and cities.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — America is no longer drifting toward authoritarianism. It is living it. Project 2025 has been instituted, and the results are clear.