Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. The vast majority of Americans — white, black, and brown — are two paychecks removed from bankruptcy. In the piece, Davis outlines why the nation will be forced to confront a range of long simmering issues in the post-COVID era, while at the same time its international influence is reduced. To this day, American troops are deployed in 150 countries. Money in the hands of all the nations on Earth will never be enough to offset the losses sustained when an entire world ceases to function, with workers and businesses everywhere facing a choice between economic and biological survival. It was the sociological equivalent of splitting the atom. What a jackass, America would lose nothing if he gets back to Germany, printing any anti Trump nonsense now??? U.S. citizenship not only ensured that I could choose to live in New York or San Francisco or any place in between; it also seemed to offer the freedom to roam the world in the assurance that, as my passport’s old-fashioned preamble promises, “the Secretary of State of the United States of America” would see to it that I could “pass without delay or hindrance and in case of need [enjoy] all lawful aid and protection.”.

6 hours ago, RT @ShawnKanungo: Well, we tried something crazy. At its peak, Henry Ford’s Willow Run Plant produced a B-24 Liberator every two hours, around the clock. Black Americans, who significantly outnumber whites in federal prisons despite being but 13 percent of the population, are suffering shockingly high rates of morbidity and mortality, dying at nearly three times the rate of white Americans.

Iran’s FM spokesman Mousavi says despite US ‘pressure and the hawking’, it could not get enough support for its motion. Donald Trump is working overtime to undercut the U.S.

We are the largest builder and supplier of arms in the world while our infrastructure crumbles, and our social nets are under attack, and poor people get poorer, and homelessness mushrooms in greater numbers than we can handle. The same day I got the e-mail, a good friend sent me a piece in Rolling Stone Magazine, where I used to work, by the Canadian Anthropologist Wade Davis. They are turning that statue, and it’s hateful legacy around, making instead into a celebration of hard work, truth, creativity, and change. In the wake of the war, with Europe and Japan in ashes, the United States with but 6 percent of the world’s population accounted for half of the global economy, including the production of 93 percent of all automobiles.

For better or for worse, America has had its time.”. The United States, virtually a demilitarized nation on the eve of the Second World War, never stood down in the wake of victory. In a single season, civilization has been brought low by a microscopic parasite 10,000 times smaller than a grain of salt. Asked what he thought of Western civilization, Mahatma Gandhi famously replied, “I think that would be a good idea.”. Wade Alan Davis II (born July 28, 1977) is an American speaker, activist, writer, educator and former American football player.. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Davis grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana and Aurora, Colorado.He played college football at Mesa State and Weber State.In 2000, Davis signed with the Tennessee Titans of the NFL as an undrafted free agent but was cut after the preseason. Biden’s choice of running mate, Kamala Harris, bodes well in this regard. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Third, and most essential, they know that you know that if their children get sick, they will get exactly the same level of medical care not only of your children but of those of the prime minister. As This Presidency* Unravels, the Looting Will Begin in Earnest. My German passport, which I was able to retain when I naturalized, currently entitles me to travel almost anywhere in the world. Policy ideas rarely make headlines; conflict does. Trump and the Republican party will pull out all the stops, of course. 2 days ago, Copyright © 2020 Speakers' SpotlightAll Rights Reserved.Privacy Policy | Contact, The Other Canada: Tanya Talaga on Reckoning with Racism and Building Equity Among Indigenous People, Martin Luther King III Reflects on His Father’s Legacy and Injustice, COVID-19 Has Shut Down Our Cities, Here’s How We Bring Them Back, Open Dialogue on Race, Equality, Justice, and Hope, Everyday Resiliency with Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe, How to Communicate More Effectively While Working Remotely. That has changed. In a far-reaching essay for Rolling Stone, anthropologist and author Wade Davis argues that this historical moment marks a turning point for the USA. But what surely does is the absolutely devastating impact that the pandemic has had on the reputation and international standing of the United States of America.