Category: TURNING POINT

The Day Peace Was Shot – TURNING POINT

“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”  – Mahatma Gandhi Before there was a peace movement in America, before the United Nations, before Kennedy or Martin Luther King, there was Mahatma Gandhi — the man who showed the world that strength could wear sandals. He was killed for wanting peace. Let me say that again.He was killed for wanting peace. It was a complicated time: India was breaking free from the British Empire, but independence came with a deep wound. The country was split into India and Pakistan, dividing Hindus and Muslims, and turning neighbors into enemies. … Continue readingThe Day Peace Was Shot – TURNING POINT

What could have been – 1979 – IRAN – TURNING POINT

Funny thing about history — it doesn’t knock twice. It slips in through the side door while everyone’s busy watching the front. 1979 was one of those years when the world blinked and woke up to find everything upside down. One minute Iran was a modern, secular country where women wore miniskirts and scientists debated nuclear energy. The next, the Ayatollah was on a balcony promising salvation and handing out death sentences. In the 1970s, Iran was called the “Japan of the Middle East.” Oil money flowed, education was booming, women studied medicine and law, and Tehran looked more … Continue readingWhat could have been – 1979 – IRAN – TURNING POINT