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     The kids in my neighborhood were surrounded by higher education. We just didn’t know the impact that it would have. We knew a lot about Black colleges at an early age. At that time, they weren’t called Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

    President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a strategic and diplomatic disaster, but also in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US Congress. Israel’s military is out of control in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump surely doesn’t mind that happening in Gaza, except that his prized Board of Peace is powerless to remake the strip into a showcase of peace and prosperity. In Lebanon, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu don’t see eye to eye on strategy, obstructing Trump’s desperate hope for an agreement with Iran that will take the war out of the public eye. And in the US Congress, Trump has just watched as Republican defectors have given the anti-Iran war members an unprecedented victory, putting further pressure on Trump to find an exit.

    This is Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill, speaking in 1940, just as World War II has opened its jaws. In that context, yes, his words make sense, but the paradox hiding in those words – the speech titled “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” – is that with victory there may be no survival either. The Good War gave us, of course, the nuclear bomb. It gave us much of the military hell that’s happened in my lifetime. It also gave us, along with a multi-trillion-dollar annual global military budget, a sense of eternal necessity to be ready for the next evil monster who wants to get us.

     The history of America is not credible without examining the enduring influence of white supremacy as both an ideology and a political plot. At its core, ideology has historically pursued two objectives. First, it promoted the belief that white people occupied a superior position within society. Second, and perhaps more as a deceitful and  delusional strategy, it sought to convince poor and working-class white Americans that they shared a common destiny with wealthy white elites. Despite they often suffered the same economic hardships experienced by Black Americans and other marginalized groups.

       Can’t we establish a common cause organized body that shows no fraternal or sororetal affiliation but is guided by the principles of Black Unity? More specifically Voting Unity, Candidates selection unity,

       But what is often overlooked is that, across the planet, most people favor a very different way of engaging with the world. In late 2025, Focaldata, a major research company commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, conducted a landmark survey of 36,405 people across 34 countries. The resulting report, Demanding Results: Global Views on International Cooperation, revealed that 55 percent of people worldwide “believe their country should cooperate on global challenges even if it means compromising on national interests.” If international cooperation was proven to solve global problems, public support jumped to 75 percent. Respondents viewed such cooperation as essential for food and water security, jobs, health, trade, and climate.

Suffering And Frustration Continue Because The Iran War Won’t End.

       The deeper story is that Washington’s military calculus has changed. The old assumption—that Iran could be bombed, contained, humiliated, and then brought quietly to the table—has met the hard surface of reality. American power remains immense. But immensity is not the same as usability. A superpower can destroy a great deal and still fail to produce a political result worth the price.

       In his award-winning book about World War I, the historian Paul Fussell began The Great War and Modern Memory with the words: “Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected.”

       If nothing else, Donald Trump pushes the nation’s – the world’s – thought process beyond anything that feels normal and comfortable. Consider the “MADness” of the last eight decades: You know, how “mutually assured destruction” has kept humanity from nuking itself into oblivion because . . . uh, mass murder could have consequences.