Afghan Deja Vu
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Americans watched in horror as Afghanistan’s Capitol Building and its government toppled with little or no resistance from Afghanistan’s U.S. trained military. But the real unseen nightmare forced upon Americans is the 20 years of senseless struggle, two trillion dollars wasted, and tens of thousands of casualties and deaths.
Social anthropology suggests that human experiences have impacts on how people see and experience the world. Theory suggests that people in places that experience more lightning—like the south—see the magical flashing this way whereas people who experience more wildfires—like the west—see the glow as a fire. In my lifetime there have been dramatic increases in wildfires and thunderstorms. The world is changing, and we are losing so much in the process. Whether you call them fireflies or lightning bugs their population is shrinking. Like with so many species, habitat loss, pesticides, and other environmental factors threaten their survival.
We’re covering and marketing Covid vaccinations all wrong
“FASCISTS ON FACEBOOK”
It’s easy to conclude that it’s not. In 1915, as national governments produced the shocking carnage of World War I, Ralph Chaplin, an activist in the Industrial Workers of the World, wrote his stirring song, “Solidarity Forever.” Taken up by unions around the globe, it proclaimed that there was “no power greater anywhere beneath the sun” than international working class solidarity. But, today, despite Chaplin’s dream of bringing to birth “a new world from the ashes of the old,” the world remains sharply divided by national boundaries—boundaries that are usually quite rigid, policed by armed guards, and ultimately enforced through that traditional national standby, war.
We may be living in the denouement of American democracy. Especially as it touches free and just and fair elections. Degree by degree those driven by the Big Lie are determined to forego the democratic voting process for a virulent, extreme political allegiance.
Mask Wearing is an African Tradition
In the strongest possible terms, the NAACP condemns the incendiary comments made by Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick in an interview with Fox News this past week. Plain and simple, unvaccinated African Americans in Texas are not the cause of the surging cases of COVID-19 plaguing the state, nor is this the case across the country. These are the facts.
On July 27th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an updated guidance to Americans, which has been up-dated again on August 12th, 2021. Essentially the CDC is issuing new guidance every two weeks as they gather more knowledge about this highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.