Global
“. . . we need to do everything we can to keep (global) warming as low as possible.”
When it comes to climate change, one two-letter word has me totally perplexed: “we.” There’s an implication of global unity — a transcendent “we,” marching as to war (so to speak) — facing humanity’s greatest crisis, undoing the exploitative, Earth-destroying aspects of our social structure and grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature. We need to do everything we can!
With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, and, so importantly, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons becoming international law, the time for putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle has arrived with great timeliness and strength.
Can it be done? Can nuclear weapons be abolished?
Yes.
Consider what the world did in the wake of World War I when the terrible impacts of poison gas had been tragically demonstrated. Mustard gas, chlorine gas, phosphene gas killed thousands on both sides of the conflict. Thereafter, the Geneva Protocol of 1925 and the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1933 outlawed chemical warfare, and to a large degree the prohibition has held.
This is the perfect opportunity for Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, to exit the stage. But he will not.
Abbas’ brief visit to the devastated Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank on July 12 demonstrated the absurdity and danger of the PA and its 87-year-old leader.
As he walked, Abbas struggled to keep his balance, in what was promoted as a ‘solidarity’ visit to the camp.
We plunge into the radioactive horror show in Ukraine for our 144th Green Grassroots Election Protection Zoom being rebroadcast during the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show on PRN.
We are joined by the great MEDEA BENJAMIN of Code Pink who makes the plea for peace and an end to the horrific planet-threatening slaughter in Ukraine.
We hear further from DENYS BONDAR, who is now circulating a petition to the United Nations General Assembly to sent peacekeepers to guarantee a demilitarized zone around the six atomic reactors at Zaporizhzhia.
These reactors are in various stages of shut-down. But the nearby spent fuel pools are in danger of losing their coolant.
Exposure of the rods stored therein could result in radioactive fires releasing enough lethal fallout to kill millions of humans an other living things in an apocalyptic event that would dwarf the killing power of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and all other catastrophic events in human history.
We plunge into the radioactive horror show in Ukraine for our 144th Green Grassroots Election Protection Zoom being rebroadcast during the Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show on PRN.
We are joined by the great MEDEA BENJAMIN of Code Pink who makes the plea for peace and an end to the horrific planet-threatening slaughter in Ukraine.
We hear further from DENYS BONDAR, who is now circulating a petition to the United Nations General Assembly to sent peacekeepers to guarantee a demilitarized zone around the six atomic reactors at Zaporizhzhia.
These reactors are in various stages of shut-down. But the nearby spent fuel pools are in danger of losing their coolant.
Exposure of the rods stored therein could result in radioactive fires releasing enough lethal fallout to kill millions of humans an other living things in an apocalyptic event that would dwarf the killing power of Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima and all other catastrophic events in human history.
“A riddle wrapped up in an enigma” is a shortened form of a quotation made in October 1939, just one month after the Second World War had begun, by Sir Winston Churchill in a radio broadcast to the British people. At the time, Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty. The full comment was “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma…” Somehow that statement popped up into my head as I tried to decipher the meaning of the Yevgeny Prigozhin alleged coup attempt in Russia on Saturday June 24th, an unanticipated development that has energized the imaginations of pundits and government officials worldwide, generating a torrent of written articles as well as many hours’ worth of spoken commentary.
