Some years ago, long before the advent of ChatGPT, a Vietnamese spiritual teacher, poet, and activist named Thich Nhat Hanh described how he addressed these questions when he composed. In the mid-1970’s, he helped a committee for orphans in Vietnam by translating applications from Vietnamese to French. The committee was sending the applications to France, seeking donors who could help the children who were victims of the war there.
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I want to address the global prezmo – my word for “present moment” – but, oh God, my knee gave out the other day. I fell on the floor. I survived. I’m OK. Things happen. But I’m still in the process of trying to empty and sell my house of 40 years . . . and move out of Chicago. All this is so much bigger than I am.
Patrick Henry was the American Spartacus, his “give me liberty or give me death speech,” rejecting perpetual slavery under his own government, the English Empire, ignited resistance in the hearts and minds of Americans. Henry later turned down the offer to be a representative writing the Constitution of the United States saying, “I smell a rat.”
The wicked Commander in Chief of the United States has ordered his Republican parrots in Congress to repeat his calls for Republican governors and state legislators to gerrymander, or redraw, state and federal political districts.
BLACKPRESSUSA.COM NEWSWIRE — As our communities face a mounting economic crisis disproportionately devastating African Americans and the marginalized, we declare that now is the time for the faith community to rise and speak with moral clarity. Just as Dr. King before us, today’s religious leaders must carry the mandate and mantel to fight for social and economic justice for all people.
Before analyzing past deployments in California and the current situation in Washington, D.C., it is worth proposing a Government City Intervention Profile (GCIP). Such a profile would inject transparency, reduce political bias, and ensure accountability by relying on measurable data rather than rhetoric. Importantly, the data entered by the government helps to complete the framework designed as a recommended tool for their use.
Black community residents, be advised, your city may be next. Trump’s dog and pony show is also meant to scare Americans. No one in the United States wants to see military vehicles rolling down highways and byways.
Neither leader provided any details about the meeting, and Trump took no questions at the joint news conference with Putin. But plainly, Trump left empty-handed: “we didn’t get there,” he said. “There” should mean a cease-fire in Ukraine and sanctions on Russia, as Trump has said many times. But it is Putin who can say “we got there.”
If one examines Donald Trump’s approach to world affairs since his entry into American politics, it should come as no surprise that he has worked to undermine the United Nations.
‘It Felt Like Telling the Truth’