The major safeguard against mass starvation around the globe is the World Food Program (WFP), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its vital humanitarian work. With hundreds of millions of people in jeopardy thanks to poverty, famines, violent conflict, and extreme weather, this UN agency distributes massive quantities of food aid―last year alone reaching more than 100 million people facing acute hunger―thereby saving millions of lives.
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South Korean’s President Lee Jae Myung used the occasion of the country’s Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japan’s colonial rule, to propose to North Korea that the two Koreas officially end the state of war between them that has existed since 1950. In its place, he suggested a “multi-layered security system” that would halt ongoing threats and occasional armed incidents along their border.
“It takes courage to change people’s hearts.”
It was 1974. The Bronx was burning. Abandoned cars littered the streets, and New York City teetered on the brink of bankruptcy. I’m still surprised my overprotective Holocaust-survivor parents let their preteen daughter ride the subway to school every day, but somehow they did.
America’s democracy was conceived like a magnificent castle pro-claiming liberty while reserving political power over-whelmingly for white men. Indigenous peoples were branded “savages,” while enslaved Black people were treated as property rather than citizens. Yet the Founders engraved majestic promises of freedom upon democracy’s gates. Symbolically, however, another sign hung from its drawbridge: “RESERVED FOR WHITE MEN.” Thus, racial hierarchy became embedded within America’s original experiment in representative government. How could a nation proclaim liberty at the castle gate while deliberately denying millions permission to cross its drawbridge?
It’s ain’t necessarly so!
TEXAS METRO NEWS — Reverend Peter Johnson reflects on a recent Dallas Morning News article reporting on proposals by Texas Republicans and activists to ban hijabs and halal foods, redefine Islam as a political ideology, and mandate school lessons emphasizing Islam’s “violence and political domination.
What Two Fathers Talk About at Lunch
Don’t Count On Your Neighbor To Vote. You Must Vote, Too.
It’s almost embarrassing to confess this, but yeah, that’s me (or used to be me), sitting back in my easy chair, waving a flag. My “nationality” is such a profound, lifelong part of who I am I rarely actually questioned it. At best I shrugged, then momentarily glared in anger at . . . the government, the media, whoever. Why do we have a trillion-dollar military budget, or a president who wants to up it to 1.5 $trillion? Why do we always have an enemy or two or three, who isn’t as human as we are and must be defeated, or at least arrested?