by Mark Antony Rossi My President is deadly sick. And my Republic is sick of the deadly global pandemic that continues to spread from one corner of the world to another without end in sight. Covid-19 deserves to be called the China Virus because it is China’s deceptive practices that […]
by Mark Antony Rossi Never in my lifetime have I seen my country, the United States, in such an upheaval over matters we continue to struggle as a nation. But I unlike many of my countrymen have traveled around the world extensively and I know for a fact that in […]
By Mark Antony Rossi It takes an extraordinary amount of energy to believe in our species. Humanity is a deeply flawed sentient entity willing to kill its finest messengers. Our history is a metaphysical zigzag of stop and go, progress and regress, high and low, making any realistic charting of […]
By Mark Antony Rossi The act of recording history was predicated on a simple intention: instruct the future. History is replete with warnings against committing the same costly mistakes that maim trust and murder dreams. As I witness mindless mobs toppling statues, I remember how this ignorant misuse of agitation […]
by Mark Antony Rossi My country, the United States, needs to heal. It truly needs to sit down with all aggrieved parties and find reconciliation in a televised national dialogue. But this cannot happen with ad hoc groups springing up and causing chaos through looting and burning and unlawfully occupying […]
by Mark Antony Rossi The Great Democratic Experiment that is America is in historic jeopardy. The enormous legislative strides Americans made as a country (and at the cost of many lives I must add) are now being rolled back one by one. The cause of stopping racism and reforming policing […]
By Mark Antony Rossi As my country, the United States, is engulfed in meaningful protests against discrimination it is also swamped with meaningless protests some organized by groups with agendas not meant to help the public discourse on the subject of equal treatment under the law. But the biggest problem […]
By Mark Antony Rossi Police brutality in America has never entirely been built on bigotry. While I won’t make light of some of the obvious examples it should be noted in the full picture all too often police violations have more to do with abuse of power than abuse of […]
By Mark Antony Rossi What is the new normal for places that have endured three months of isolation, evacuation and expiration. The corona virus is still ravaging through India, parts of Northern China and South America. For a hyper financial, Uber freedom zone like America the new normal might mean […]
By Mark Antony Rossi Strange how a global calamity can bring people closer together. It’s even more ironic when asked to social distance (staying six feet away from each other) winds up bringing people to a more neighborly position. I wish I knew why it took thousands to die for […]