Early this year, legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives and in the U.S. Senate introduced resolutions that call upon the U.S. government to lead a global effort to halt and reverse the nuclear arms race. Co-sponsored by 36 members of the House and five members of the Senate, H. Res. 317 and S. Res. 323 urge the U.S. government to pursue nuclear disarmament, renounce the first use of nuclear weapons, end sole presidential authority to launch them, cancel plans for new, enhanced nuclear weapons and delivery systems, maintain the current moratorium on nuclear testing explosions, and provide a just economic transition for impacted communities.
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Racism is not innate—it is a learned behavior sustained by social, psychological, and economic rewards. Though neuroscience focuses on the trauma racism inflicts upon its victims, it rarely examines the hidden gratification it gives its perpetrators. The truth is stark: racism endures because it delivers pleasure—feelings of power, belonging, and superiority that activate the same dopamine-driven reward circuits as other addictive behaviors.
Speaking with democracy activists recently from Hungary and Poland, former President Barack Obama warned about the “rising wave of authoritarianism sweeping the globe,” even in countries once believed unsusceptible to an erosion of liberties.
Double standards have always been a part of the culture but it has now reached that category of Ridiculousness!
Let me go back a few centuries. Centuries before the days of slavery, people of African ancestry had benevolent leaders who believed in unity and harmony. We loved to live in unity and harmony. We loved to sing and dance.
We’ve Crossed the First Tipping Point. All of America Will Pay the Price.
In my lifetime, presidents from both parties have given inspirational speeches – Kennedy in 1963 at the Berlin Wall saying to the German people, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner) and Reagan in 1987, at the same place, saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” But Trump’s speech before the UN on the 23rd of September was an embarrassment.
The Golden Trojan Horse: How the Nobel Peace Prize Became the Mask of a Modern Conquest
“I am Spartacus!” rings out from the surviving freedom fighting slaves of the battle with Rome at the close of the classic film “Spartacus,” starring Kirk Douglas, and based on the book by Howard Fast, as they all claim to be the ferocious freedom fighter to protect him from crucifixion by the greedy Roman Marcus Crassus.
NATO’s standing threat to attack Russia with nuclear weapons is put on parade every autumn. This year’s thermonuclear dry run⸺dubbed Steadfast Noon⸺got started October 13 according to NATO’s press office and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, or SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium.