Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: My Dream for BRICS and its Critics With the recent kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro it seems like a golden opportunity for BRICS to step up to the plate. But skeptics say this won't happen because BRICS is an economic not a political organization. Many Marxists say BRICS can be no alternative to the West because the countries in BRICS are too diverse politically to unite. Is it naive to hope that BRICS can overcome these real criticisms?

Citizen News Service - CNS: India demonstrates high political leadership for preventing antimicrobial resistance As 2025 ends, India's Prime Minister sounded an important warning on antimicrobial resistance on 28th December 2025 and appealed to stop misuse and overuse of antimicrobial medicines like antibiotics. WHO HQ and several other health agencies and leaders have welcomed highest-level political leadership for preventing AMR in India and hope this sparks more actions in 2026 and beyond. Best of wishes for new year 2026 to you all

Citizen News Service - CNS: Impacting positive change for those left behind Please consider the below article as 2025 draws to an end. There are significant strides we could make in 2025 but challenges abound too. This is a reality check article based on a real story of an orphan HIV positive child who is being cared by his aunt and grandmother - and frontline healthcare worker helped connect this child to lifesaving government-run health and social welfare services. No child should be born with HIV.

Scott Baker: Benefits of Having the Bank of North Dakota to local Banks and Credit Unions The advantages of having a public bank in North Dakota have been clear for consumers and the state for >100 years. Herein, a brief rundown of them to the bank and credit unions in the state. 2 

Mike Rivage-Seul: What Yet Another U.S. Surrender Looks Like -- This Time in Ukraine Reading outside the Mainstream Media reveals that Ukraine did not stand up to Russia and win. NATO did not stop Putin. Instead, The West lost its proxy war and is searching for ways to disguise capitulation as diplomacy. 1 

Citizen News Service - CNS: From shadow to light: Supporting unhoused persons to access lifesaving TB services Please consider the below article based on insights from a person who not only survived deadliest infectious disease (TB) but also rose to help the most-at-risk people (homeless or unhoused persons and migrants) to access lifesaving health services.

Paul Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gould: RoundTable 46: Last Discussion before the Speech is presented at the JFK Dallas Convention Nov. 20th! Could JFK have been sacrificed in a ritual killing to satisfy an ancient cosmic cycle that had little to do with his presidency? And had he been marked long ago as that sacrifice to an apocalyptic end-time coming to its conclusion, hidden behind the distractions brought on by American foreign policy? In other words just Queen Elizabeth I and her secret agent 007, John Dee the foundation of modern Science, Religion and Empire.

Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Seeds of Catholic Totalitarian Rule Against Pagans: Making the Stalin Boogeyman Look Puny Stalin tops them all when it comes to accusations of totalitarianism. Yet there is an elephant in the room. For over 2K years the Catholic Church has striven to embody totalitarianism against pagans and heretics long before the word totalitarian became used in the 20th century. The church's heartless, fanatical & obsessive attacks in Middle Age Europe included its smashing of images, destruction of temples and burning trees.

Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: How I've Learned to be a Social Socialist: Thriving by not Minding My Own Business When I first learned about socialism I expected people to be outgoing, sensitive to each other, kind & loving. If capitalism teaches us to be scheming, competitive & cut-throat, it would make sense that socialists should be the opposite. Instead I found socialists in the US crabby, withdrawn & lacking in the ability to pull people together. I try to embody how I think socialists should really be-convivial, joyful & fun.

Ada Kate Uchegbu: Why Nigeria needs a Female President- Presidential aspirant Ada Kate Uchegbu Nigeria stands at a crossroads. For too long, promises have been made but not delivered. Citizens are tired of recycled leadership, where the same faces rotate power. What Nigeria needs today is visionary leadershipnot politics of survival. My vision is clear: Security: Nigerians must sleep without fear of kidnappers or terrorists. Jobs: Our youth deserve opportunities to thrive 1 

Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Dancing With The Devil: Is It Possible to Evaluate Stalin Dialectically? "How can you like Putin? He is a dictator who has been in power for 20 years. Venezuela is a failed country run by drug cartels. There is no democracy." Also, Gaddafi: "He dresses like a king & wants to control all the African gold. He murders his own people." These are loaded vice words concocted by the CIA in the early 1950s. This article will do an in-depth analysis of perhaps the biggest boogey man in the world, Stalin.

Marta Steele: HOMAGE TO A GENTLE GIANT (1997)--in memoriam Gary Karr (1941-2025) In homage to the beautiful memory of pioneering string bassist Bary Karr, recently passed away, I'm reprinting an essay I wrote in 1997 honoring the heroism of those who take up and devote themselves to this musical leviathan in every sense of the word. I wrote it in 1997.

Paul Fitzgerald Elizabeth Gould: *RoundTable 43: The Return of the Jewish Messiah and Sacred Economics, the real crime committed against the Roman Empire Promoting an economy that works for the people rather than for the imperialists was as dangerous for JFK in the modern era as it was 2000 years ago by the Jewish messiah or 400 years ago by the last Fitzgerald Earl of Desmond. Throughout history these heroes were regularly crushed for promoting the economics of peace.

Barbara And Bruce MacLean-Lerro: Magical Theatricality in the Ice Age Caves: Why it Should Matter to Socialists What was really going on in the Ice Age caves inhabited by Cro-Magnons? John Pfeiffer and David Lewis Williams argue that the entire cave was a magical theatrical performance involving music, mask-making, sculpture and dance designed to create an ordeal for an initiation rite of passage. Hold tight!