We Need Political Nonviolence Now More Than Ever
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Don’t be fooled by fake polls! Don’t be a victim of poll perjury. Why should Biden help MAGA Democrats win who would never dream about supporting Biden-Harris?
Her side-piece relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was the affirmative action that placed her on the path to becoming the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.
Filipe Faria, a humanitarian pilot, shares the traumatic event that led to his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): “being taken hostage by child soldiers.” We chat over Chinese food about his work flying humanitarian workers and goods around countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. Filipe just got recertified for his pilot’s license, 24 years after the event that changed his life.
The split Mr. Biden makes between domestic and foreign policy when it comes to violence is either unconscious or politically expedient. But even political expedience reflects a larger unconsciousness that seems to be shared by many contemporary world leaders. They continue to refuse to see that national self-interest has been subsumed by global self-interest. Without exception, both the wars and the tensions that often preclude wars have become deeply irrelevant in the context of rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, and marine ecological breakdown.
On Sunday, July 14, 2024, Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate former President Donald J. Trump, who’s also a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. Trump survived the assassin’s bullet but suffered a gunshot to his upper right ear. Following the death of the assassin, Federal and Local Authorities now must determine if the lone assassin was mentally ill, politically motivated, a domestic terrorist, or a patsy.
In describing the necessary leadership qualities of a prince (leader), Machiavelli stated, “The prince needs to be a fox that he may know how to deal with traps and a lion that he may know how to frighten the wolves.”
Political violence and assassination attempts are undesirable, unnecessary, and unappreciated.
There is no media like white media! White media companies don’t respect Black media owners, publishers, or journalists.