We’ve seen this movie several times already: Trump issues threats, Iran refuses to kneel, negotiators rush to Qatar, Trump or Rubio announces an imminent deal, and then optimism evaporates as it becomes clear that the two sides are miles apart. At which point the US resumes military action and Iran threatens to retaliate.
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I recently came across another one of those confident social media posts claiming that Western civilization is essentially the product of Christianity. Hospitals, universities, charity, marriage, human rights, all presented as though they emerged fully formed from a single religious tradition.
America repeatedly warns the world about the dangers of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons while ignoring a disturbing contradiction within its own democracy: the steady nuclearization of the American presidency itself. The nation’s Forefathers feared concentrated executive power equally as foreign tyranny because they understood that unchecked authority eventually mutates into authoritarianism.
Each of us ought be praying LSMFT Lord Save Me From Trump!
I was diagnosed with a learning disability early in life. Later, in college, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic condition that reshaped how I managed my health, education and future. These experiences did more than challenge me physically and academically; they shaped my mental and emotional well-being in ways that are often hard to put into words.
‘Creating peace’ puts war in danger
Scared Politicians Are Redrawing Voting Districts. However, American Voters Know What’s Right.
While many of us are cutting back on groceries, travel, health care and other necessities to pay almost five bucks a gallon for gas (more than $5/gallon in some states), oil companies are raking in mega bucks. According to the politically centrist publication, The Hill, since President Trump started the war with Iran the world’s eleven largest oil companies are earning about 30 million dollars every hour. That comes to $720 million a day or more than $5 billion every week. Feeling ripped off? You should, but the price you pay at the pump is only what you see and feel. A lot of your tax dollars go to Big Oil too.
Americans are not merely awaiting the celebration of the 250-year celebration. They are witnessing an organized conspiracy to political murder democratic foundations of the nation itself. The alleged motive behind this attempted political murder of democracy is rooted in a desperate determination to halt America’s gradual movement toward becoming a more inclusive and genuinely representative union. For the conspirators, the growing political participation of Black people, immigrants, women, and marginalized communities is perceived not as democratic progress, but as a threat to a long-protected hierarchy of racial and political dominance. What fuels America’s diabolic racism?
Voter exclusion was never about men alone. And much is at stake for women in state and federal elections.