Opinion

Earlier this year when Kaufman Development sold one of its “Gravity” apartment buildings in Franklinton, it was another canary-in-the-coal mine moment for a West Side activist. Just a month prior, the Columbus-based developer had sold the nearby Idea Foundry and Gravity Park Experience, which is best described as a playground for adults with its pickle ball courts.

“They are cheap-ass apartments from what we’ve seen at Gravity,” says Rebecca Hunley, a Franklinton homeowner and also the current chair of the Franklinton Area Neighbors Civic Association, an organization she founded. “Yet I don’t see anything telling me, or anybody from our neighborhood, we can move in. I have never paid a mortgage like what they are asking for rent. Gravity, the great flop that it is. It’s a failure.”

Why are so many Americans, especially young ones, depressed, bipolar, overweight, gender-stressed and "on the spectrum"?

Explanations range from endocrine disrupters, forever chemicals and plastics in the environment and food to electromagnetic fields from cell phones and microwaves to helicopter parents. That's before we get to Covid's forced 5-year social isolation and fetal and childhood exposure to prescription drugs. (For example, SSRI antidepressants contribute to bipolar diagnoses according to some research).

Our fabulous Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us her usual transcendent poem.

Singaporean native HEDY TRIPP talks of her father suffering through Japan’s Gulag & her decades of powerful No Nukes work ever since.

Noted film reviewer ED RAMPELL tells us of the powerful documentary “Atomic People” and its devastating impact on our view of the nuclear Bombings.

Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN questions the military calculations behind dropping those Bombs at all.

Network maven DAVID SALTMAN chimes in on the shocking availability of radioactive materials…& does a deep dive on the state of the modern news media.

All the above is followed by “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT updates her battles for democracy in Waldport, Oregon.

Legendary co-host MIKE HERSH warns of the toxic power of the Big/Dark Money warping our elections.

Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO sticks it to both Columbia University & CBS for their lack of spine in standing up to dictatorship.

From Columbus, Ohio, we hear SANDY BOLZENIUS say she’s actually optimistic about the power of the people to fight back for democracy!

"A starving 5-year-old Amir walked 12 kilometers to collect food at the food distribution center in Rafah run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and it is heartbreaking. He approached me and took a bag, but he had nothing to put in it.

Then Amir extended his hand, and I thought he wanted more aid. I extended mine to him and he kissed it and said, "Thank you."

I looked at this little boy, barefoot, starving, barely clothed, and said, 'Someone cares for you?'

I was kneeling on my knees, and Amir approached me, held my head in his thin, dusty hands, and said, "Thank you." He then left, carrying the small amount of food he had taken from me.

Moments later, the Israeli army opened fire on the hungry crowds who had come to collect the food, and they fell in front of me one by one. Among those whose bodies were pierced and killed by bullets was this child, Ameer."

The above statement is a testimony by a US eyewitness The Resonance. He is a retired Lt. Col. who was serving as a contractor with Gaza Humanitarian Fund in Rafah. 

I have no idea what kind of human being you are. What kind of conscience do you possess that doesn't tremble at the sight of children starving in Gaza? No child should ever have to endure such brutality. No parent should have to cower in despair, knowing they cannot protect their children or provide for them. Kids go to sleep not knowing where the next meal comes from or if they will live another day.

You appear to the world with a cold face, denying famine and claiming there is no crisis there. But Gaza doesn't need your affirmation, Mr. Witkoff. Gaza is soaked in blood and tears and runs out of space for new graves. The images we receive daily on our screens are not rumors. The cries of mothers are not Hamas propaganda and children going to sleep without food are not numbers in a fake report. What you said is shameful, disgraceful, and lacks human decency.