Black 4-Year-Old Shot Dead after Mistaking White Woman for his Mother

This could be tomorrow's headline anywhere in the southern US, from Florida to Arizona.

Fear of young black people, even among black cops, is a raging epidemic in the United States. Almost every day we read about another atrocity. Right-wingers say mental illness, not the easy availability of firearms, is the problem. Well the racist paranoia of far too many white Americans is a mental health problem. So what, right-wingers, is your solution?

Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
The New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc2201761

#shooting #shootings #guns #firearms #arms-control #gun-control #racism #usa

The New Geopolitics

#JeffreyDSachs

https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2023--issue-no22/the-new-geopolitics

The new #multilateralism should be based on #globally-agreed-goals, notably the #ParisClimateAgreement, the #BiodiversityAgreement, and the #SustainableDevelopmentGoals. It should bring the new #cutting-edge-technologies, including #digital-connectivity and #artificial-intelligence, under the ambit of #international-law and #global-governance. It should #reinforce, #implement, and #build on the vital #agreements on #arms-control and #denuclearization. Finally, it should draw #strength from the ancient #wisdom of the great #religious and #philosophical traditions. There is a lot of work ahead to build the new multilateralism, yet the #future itself is at stake.

#thenewgeopolitics #geopolitics #international #realism #hegemonic #stability #us #china #russia #un-charter #universal-declaration-of-human-rights #global #cooperation

The New Geopolitics - CIRSD

There is universal assent that we are in a period of geopolitical tension and flux. In a rough chronology, 1815-1914 was the era of British hegemony, the not-so-peaceful Pax Britannica.