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JFK’s ‘Profiles in Courage’: Time for all Americans to re-read the book

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Time has come to take a look into JFK’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, Profiles in Courage (1956) anew, which served as a clarion call to every American.

JFK had chronicled eight legendary senators in the book—John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, Sam Houston, Edmund G. Ross, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, George Norris and Robert A. Taft. The book is not just the stories of the past but a book of hope and confidence for American future.

“My father’s heroes were men and women who were willing to risk their careers to do what was right for our country,” writes Caroline Kennedy, JFK’s daughter, in the book’s Introduction.

At a time when President Donald Trump is pushing the US and the whole world toward perdition, JFK’s book offers a moving, powerful and relevant testament to the “indomitable national spirit and an unparalleled celebration of that most noble of human virtues–courage”.

Robert F. Kennedy wrote in the book’s Foreword that “…what happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.”

From the time Trump was sworn in second time as the US President, his actions demonstrated a bizarre and eccentric mindset that is sure to spell doom not only for the US, but for the entire world. His conscience, personal standard of ethics, his integrity or morality, if at all–deserve outright condemnation. If the American people realize the devastating consequences of Trump’s presidency, they should take the cue from JFK’s book. The acts of courage described in the book must inspire the Americans to rise against this megalomaniac and loony.

Tragically, Trump’s second term is already more lawless and more authoritarian than any in the US history.  Many of his actions are mind-boggling and heart-wrenching. Many seem powered by ignorance and incoherence, by capriciousness and callousness. With his desire to disrupt anything and everything, the President is ready to pulverize the very foundations of the US government and its democracy.

The most dangerous part of his agenda is his war against constitution— defying judges’ order, deporting people without due process, pardoning hundreds of January 6 criminals, and calling to impeach judges who have ruled against him.

Trump’s latest misadventure has been the global trade war after he has enacted a series of steep tariffs affecting nearly all goods imported into the US and which will cost ordinary Americans greatly.

JFK’s life and career has inspired millions of people around the world and shown the truth of the 7th US President Andrew Jackson’s statement: “One man of courage makes a majority”.

In this unfortunate state of affairs, it is high time Americans took a re-look into JFK’s book, got inspired and stopped bending their knees to Trump.

Profiles in Courage’: a thoughtful and persuasive book

 


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Pfizer, fraud and Covid

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The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes against Humanity, which was published last month on October 15, has stated in no uncertain terms that the US pharma behemoth’s Covid vaccine clinical trial was deeply flawed. This is a book, author Dr Naomi Wolf says, the US, the UK and Australian governments had all tried to suppress.

The story of the book and how it was completed is extraordinary. As many as 3250 highly credentialed doctors and scientists under the leadership of Amy Kelly worked for two years on the 450,000 internal Pfizer documents released under the court order by a successful lawsuit by Attorney Aaron Siri.

These volunteers have confirmed the greatest crimes against humanity of all time.

Covid-19 became a global public health emergency in 2020. Today, after four years, it really doesn’t matter whether the virus was released carelessly or deliberately into the environment from Wuhan (China) or Fort Detrick (US).

Public demand, support of the scientific-medical fraternity, WHO and national public health officials, together led national governments across the world to begin and fast-track the manufacture of anti-Covid vaccines.

Pfizer stepped in to take advantage of the crisis and mint money.

The story began when lawyer Aaron Siri successfully sued the FDA, to compel them to release “The Pfizer Documents”. These are Pfizer’s internal documents that detail the clinical trials Pfizer had conducted in relation to its Covid mRNA injection. These trials were undertaken to secure the ultimate prize for a pharmaceutical company, the Emergency Use Authorization” (EUA) from the FDA. The FDA had awarded EUA for ages 16+to Pfizer in December 2020. The ‘pandemic’ became the pretext for the “urgency” that led the FDA to bestow EUA on Pfizer’s (and Moderna’s) drug. The EUA essentially allowed Pfizer to race right to market with a not-fully-tested product.

Many people who took the vaccine as it was launched in 2020-2021-2022 and to the present, did not realize that normal testing for safety of a new vaccine–testing that typically takes 10 to 12 years–had simply been bypassed via the mechanism of a “state of emergency” and the FDA’s “Emergency Use Authorization”.

The FDA asked the judge in the Aaron Siri lawsuit to withhold the release of the Pfizer documents for 75 years. But, why would a government agency wish to conceal certain material until the present generation, those affected by what is in these documents, is dead and gone? There can be no good answer to this question!

Fortunately for history and for millions of people whose lives were saved by this decision, the judge had refused the FDA’s request and compelled the release of the documents.

Pfizer knew by April 2021that the vaccines had damaged the hearts of young people. The company knew — just 90 days after the public rollout of their vaccines — that its injection was linked to a myriad of adverse events. Far from being “chills”, “fever’, “fatigue”, as the Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) and other authorities had claimed, the actual side-effects were catastrophically serious. These side-effects included: death (which Pfizer does list as a “serious adverse event”). Indeed, there were over 1233 deaths in the first three months of the drug being publicly available.

Among the side-effects were liver injury, neurological adverse events, facial paralysis, kidney injury, autoimmune diseases, respiratory failure, damaged lung structure, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. These appear in the Pfizer documents as side-effects of the vaccine.

By the time, Pfizer’s vaccines were rolled out to the public, the company knew that they would be killing babies and significantly harming women and men’s reproduction. The materials in the documents make it clear that damaging human ability to reproduce and causing spontaneous abortions of babies is “not a bug, it is a failure.”

“Unearthing this criminal evidence is painful indeed,” says the author. “Seeing this material is like being among the Allied soldiers who first opened the gates of Auschwitz.”

Unfortunately, no one who committed this unpardonable crime is in jail, or even facing civil or criminal charges. There are now at least three lawsuits against Pfizer. The litigation drags on.

When will those responsible be brought to book and exemplary punishment meted out to them?

Only time will tell.

 


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Kabir: When will Ananda Publishers correct this goof-up?

In the book Kabir by Kshtimohon Sen, on the blurb (at the back), it is written: “In 1808, Prof Sen joined Bisva-Bharati ….” This is a gross factual mistake…
How is it possible? Rabindranath Tagore was born in 1861 and Prof Sen was born in 1880.
In the column Boikolom, the Ananda Publishers used to ridicule little magazines with religious regularity, and try tenaciously to find out little flaws as if they are the final word on Bengali language and literature. The Boikolom used to make snarky comments about these little magazines and many of these magazines folded up later.

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