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Three years ago, when US President George W. Bush was still praising Russian President Vladimir Putin as his democratic soul mate, I was already condemning Putin (in published articles) as a neo-Stalinist munchkin with a dictatorial agenda to reform Russia in his own image. In fact, I coined the term “Putinization” to describe his neo-Stalinist… Read more.
Dear Readers, I appreciate the number of you who e-mailed over the past two days to enquire about my daily commentaries (and even about my welfare). In fact, it was only technical difficulties with Google’s server that prevented me from publishing. Unfortunately, my webmaster has admonished me that these difficulties might be a recurring headache,… Read more.
The United Nations disclosed on Monday that new, more sophisticated sampling techniques have led to a dramatic lowering of the estimates in the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide; which represents the first waning in the growth of this pandemic since HIV was discovered in 1981. Ironically, this good news was offset by reports… Read more.
Yesterday, President Bush hosted the Mideast Peace Conference in Annapolis, Maryland. I watched in bemusement as the three principals gave opening remarks on the Israeli and Palestinian roadmap to peace. Because anyone could see, this was a classic case of the blind leading the blind. Three blind men on the roadmap Bush is a bona fide lame duck. He’s no… Read more.
The men are young, gorgeous and up for it. No wonder western women see a Third World holiday as a gateway to casual transactional sex. [Tanika Gupta, author of the (female) sex tourism play “Sugar Mammies”] After reading my commentary (and related articles) on the queen’s diamond anniversary in Friday’s edition of Caribbean Net News,… Read more.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, is fighting an insurgency within his Anglican Church that makes the one President Bush is fighting in Iraq seem relatively mundane. In fact, here’s a little of what I wrote in a commentary on Williams’s internecine struggle a year ago: …the battle within the Anglican Church over the… Read more.
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With little thought, most of us would have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day that our turkey would become cold and dry by the time we finished gracing our food. But never mind all we take for granted. Instead, let us be thankful that, but for the grace of God, we’re not… Read more.
President George W. Bush continued a hallowed presidential tradition yesterday by pardoning two turkeys – named May and Flower – that were primed for Thanksgiving-Day slaughter. And, in so doing, he informed the White House Press Corps that VP Dick Cheney suggested that the pardoned turkeys should have been named “Lunch and Dinner”. But, with… Read more.
