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Leaders in Africa and around the world give lip service to addressing underlying causes of terrorism, violent internal conflicts, criminal violence and other threats. In practice, they prioritize militarized responses that are not only abusive of human rights but also ineffective and counter-productive. African conflicts are most often seen in terms of simplistic narratives and applied to the entire continent. But each country is distinct. Most are at peace, afflicted not by war and warlords, b...

AfricaFocus Bulletins with Material on Politics and Human Rights April 19, 2021  Confronting Global Apartheid Demands Global Solidarity http://www.africafocus.org/docs21/ga2104.php     "The COVID-19 pandemic has both revealed and deepened structural inequalities around the world. Nearly every country has been hit by economic downturn, but the impacts are unevenly felt. Within and across countries, the people who have suffered most are those already disadvantaged by race, class, gender, o...

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Army veteran Larry A. Freeland is the author of the novel "Chariots in the Sky." (contributed photo) 22 Feb 2021 The News Herald, Panama City, Fla. | By Tony Simmons When it comes to the experience of flying military helicopters in wartime, new author Larry A. Freeland knows of what he writes. The retiree, originally from Canton, Ohio, grew up in a military family — his father was a U.S. Air Force officer who moved the fam...

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Overwrought speeches were being delivered to an empty chamber. it started with cameras in the house of representatives, and because everything takes longer in the senate, it took the senate seven years to allow c-span cameras to come in. and also there is this. its safe to say that whatever time you watch, whichever c-span network you watch, youll come away smarter for it. a commercial network would probably market it as the c-span guarantee, you will learn something, sometimes many things just ...

Political careers back before it was apparent that some of those overwrought speeches were being delivered to an empty chamber. it started with cameras in the house of representatives, and because everything takes longer in the senate, it took the senate seven years to allow c-span cameras to come in. and also there is this. its safe to say that whatever time you watch, whichever c-span network you watch, youll come away smarter for it. a commercial network would probably market it as the c-span...

The president, and heres another moment where we realize the credibility matters. words matter. leadership matters. steadiness matters. you know eugene robinson was recommending books to read, and i would recommend three books about the guns of august. there was a book called "the proud tower", you know, how the west had no idea the catastrophe that was coming. also "the march of folly." people think that terrible things cannot happen, that leadership does not necessarily matter. it matters grea...

The president, and heres another moment where we realize the credibility matters. words matter. leadership matters. steadiness matters. you know eugene robinson was mentioning a book to read, i would recommend three books about the guns of august. think about what august of 1914 was like. she wrote a book called "the proud tower", you know, how the west had no idea the catastrophe that was coming. she also wrote a book called "the march of folly". people think that terrible things cannot happen,...

Things cannot happen, that leadership does not necessarily matter. it matters greatly, and were at that moment of peril. we have to ask ourselves, okay. where can this go? who can we trust? and, you know, this is where when you have an erratic narcissist playing nuclear chicken with another erratic narcissist, its hard to sleep well at night. >> john f. kennedy gave the guns of august to his friends and every member of his cabinet for good reason. on book notes, were going to take a pause here. ...