The Nobel Peace Prize went to I-CAN this year, an organization with which my mom has worked, given the abolition of nuclear weapons is core to the WILPF agenda as well.
The award was well-timed to help focus international attention on the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Organized crime rules the planet, often in the guise of religion. However the rule of law has made some gains in certain pockets or niches.
The old USA was a champion of the rule of law, and democracy in many minds, until it got taken over by oligarchs and plutocrats. Organized crime is in control again, hiding behind the veneer of legality, an increasingly thin disguise.
Absent much moral authority, the imposter government continues in a farcical manner, a scary clown. People still interested in advancing democratic values have had to reorganize, to get out from under a failed nation-state system.
The icons and symbols, such as the Stars & Stripes, remain important. Their meanings continue to shift, as global humanity seeks a new equilibrium.
The illegal war of aggression against Iraq, into which the American people were railroaded, pretty much broke what remained of a working democracy. The descent into despotism has been ugly, to say the least.
The award was well-timed to help focus international attention on the UN treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
Organized crime rules the planet, often in the guise of religion. However the rule of law has made some gains in certain pockets or niches.
The old USA was a champion of the rule of law, and democracy in many minds, until it got taken over by oligarchs and plutocrats. Organized crime is in control again, hiding behind the veneer of legality, an increasingly thin disguise.
Absent much moral authority, the imposter government continues in a farcical manner, a scary clown. People still interested in advancing democratic values have had to reorganize, to get out from under a failed nation-state system.
The icons and symbols, such as the Stars & Stripes, remain important. Their meanings continue to shift, as global humanity seeks a new equilibrium.
The illegal war of aggression against Iraq, into which the American people were railroaded, pretty much broke what remained of a working democracy. The descent into despotism has been ugly, to say the least.
