Selected Articles: End of the Trump Administration?, U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban Forum, Queen Mother Moore’s Revolutionary Legacy
Is The Trump Administration Already Over?
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, February 07 2017
Hopes for the Trump administration are not burning brightly. Trump’s military chief, Gen. Mattis, is turning out to be true to his “mad dog” nickname. He has just declared that Iran “is the single biggest state sponsor of terrorism in the world.” He has declared Russia to be the number one threat to the US. He has threatened intervention in China’s territorial affairs.
Trump Foreign Policy in Turmoil
By Renee Parsons, February 07 2017
Within days of the flawed roll-out for Trump’s Executive Orders regardingBorder Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements andEnhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States, the President’s promises on the campaign trail and his Inaugural Address that the US would not pursue regime change or initiate new foreign interventions and that his administration would pursue a new foreign policy based on engagement, have been called into question.
U.N. Nuclear Weapon Ban May Be Last Exit Before Extreme Tolls for Humanity
By Andrew Kishner, February 07 2017
The first installment of a 2017 international forum aimed at banning humanity’s worst doomsday weapon will happen in late March as the United Nations General Assembly convenes in New York City’s United Nations Headquarters.
By Colin Todhunter, February 07 2017
Monsanto is preparing a fresh effort to promote genetically modified (GM) crops to the UK public, according to a piece in The Scottish Farmer. The article notes the company recently appointed former World Bank communications strategist Vance Crowe as its ‘Director of Millenial Engagement’, a job that involves convincing the public about the benefits of GM.
Queen Mother Moore (1898-1997): A Legacy of Revolutionary Resistance
By Abayomi Azikiwe, February 07 2017
One leading figure in the 20th century movement for African liberation in the United States and around the world is Audley Eloise Moore, widely known as Queen Mother Moore. Her efforts spanned the era of Jim Crow in the South where she was born in New Iberia, Louisiana on July 27, 1898, to the Garvey Movement of the 1920s and the Communist Left of the 1930s and 1940s.