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Religious Opiate

Everyone needs something to hold on to, and it was Karl Marx who said, “Religion is the opiate of the masses.” Ergo, people need religion to be their drug, their balm, their salvation.

From Crisis to Collaboration: Harnessing Business Power For Disaster Response

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, May 20, CMC -The facts are clear: the world is experiencing more frequent, less predictable, and more costly extreme weather events. Last year, the hottest in documented history, floods, hurricanes, series of cyclones, cold spells, record-breaking heat waves – all occurred around the world, and many were labelled as “once-in-a-generation events”. Yet these events have one thing in common: they are increasingly extreme and destructive, often beyond expectations and predictions.

Disaster caused by Hurricane Beryl in 2024 (UN Photo)

When Demagogues Blame the Vulnerable, We All Lose

In hard times, people look for answers. The decimation of American manufacturing starting in the 1990s with trade agreements like NAFTA led to decades of downward economic mobility for working families. That creates ripe conditions for demagogues to come out of the woodwork offering an easy answer for people’s pain. And if history teaches us anything, that answer is usually someone else to blame.

Ben Jealous

Female Father Figure

Everyone talks about daddy’s girl and women with daddy issues, but rarely do we hear of the impact that absent fathers have on daughters. A research paper showed that girls who grew up without fathers experienced puberty earlier than girls who did, and actually had earlier menstrual cycles. ‘According to research, girls who grow up without a father in the household tend to hit puberty earlier than girls with a present father, with studies showing a link between father absence and earlier onset of puberty, particularly in breast development and pubic hair growth.’

UN Security Council Fails Ukraine, Gaza and the World

WASHINGTON, May 29, CMC – When Russian drones stalk civilians along Ukraine’s Dnipro River and Gaza’s hospitals lie in ruins under relentless bombardment, the world cannot pretend that these are distant crises. Yet the UN Security Council, which is entrusted to uphold global peace, is paralyzed by the self-interest of its veto powers, exposing its failure to fulfil both its mandate and its duty to safeguard humanity.

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