For over three years, the Russian government has conducted a brutal military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine―the largest and most devastating military operation in Europe since World War II. Defying Russia’s international obligations―including a peace treaty it signed with Ukraine, a ruling by the International Court of Justice demanding Russia halt its military operations in Ukraine, the UN Charter, and repeated UN General Assembly condemnations of Russian behavior by an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations―the Putin regime has stubbornly persisted with Russia’s imperialist aggression against its smaller, weaker neighbor.
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The Selma Voting Rights Campaign had been going on for more than nine weeks at that point. Day after day, Black citizens, tried to enter the Dallas County Courthouse to register to vote. Day after day, Sheriff Jim Clark and his deputies blocked their path. Hundreds were arrested, and many were beaten. But the campaign had, so far, failed to attract the widespread sympathy of the nation.
WE, UNITED TO END RACISM, are here to honor those who walked the Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and to signal our intention to carry on the work those soldiers so courageously and honorably engaged.
Donald J. Trump, America’s 47th President, gained recognition as the world’s most powerful man. Having received absolute immunity by the Supreme Court, President Trump can execute any action, positive or negative and pull any strings he deems within his Presidential duties. Since his famous Apprentice show, he has run the government as though it’s his personal Puppet Show. The President rules, pulls the strings, and his Cabinet members respond accordingly. However, is there a Master Puppeteer on the horizon?
According to an article by Margaret Besheer, who has long covered the UN for the Voice of America, the US government made it clear during a vote at the UN General Assembly that it will no longer reliably support the UN global sustainable development goals (SDGs). The SDGs, adopted by all UN Member States in 2015, are an urgent call for action by all countries working together to end poverty, improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth while tackling climate change.
After I graduated college, I joined the Peace Corps and shipped off to a rural, underserved region of Cameroon. Cameroon is a country the size of California located in Central Africa known best at the time for its peacefulness and long-serving President.
Beyond the federal government no longer recognizing celebrations such as Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the Pentagon is removing every program, mention, image, or individual they say is associated with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The Trump administration already fired Air Force General CQ Brown, Jr. – another history-making Black fighter pilot like my cousin Lt. Col. Baugh – as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the Navy’s first female chief.
The advance of civilization, however, produced two existential threats to our survival – global warming and nuclear war. Can they be eliminated? The accomplishments of the past 250 years show that we have the mental capacity. But more is required – wide acceptance that the threats are real, and a forum for finding and implementing solutions. To that end, Humanism and Democracy are essential.
The TPNW is extraordinary because — in the words of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which helped shepherd the treaty through the UN negotiating process and won a Nobel Prize for it — it’s “the first globally applicable treaty that categorically prohibits the most destructive, inhumane instruments of war ever created.”
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