"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. " -- Frederick Douglass America likes to tell its story as a procession of wars won and enemies defeated.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

On 27 November 1897 the multi-millionaire Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament establishing a foundation to honour, among others "champions of peace", those "who shall have done the most or the best work for creating the brotherhood of nations, for the abolition of reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"[1].

On 27 November 1897 the multi-millionaire Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament establishing a foundation to honour, among others "champions of peace", those "who shall have done the most or the best work for creating the brotherhood of nations, for the abolition of reduction of standing armies, and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses"[1].

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump's FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to September 2025 temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, As of year-end, the status of the Arctic and Greenland present the world with a nerve-racking knuckle-biting dilemma, as apparently, according to climate scientists, they're coming apart at the seams.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump's FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to September 2025 temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, As of year-end, the status of the Arctic and Greenland present the world with a nerve-racking knuckle-biting dilemma, as apparently, according to climate scientists, they're coming apart at the seams.