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Saint Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet last week embarked on the well-trodden path of threatening to sue local media for alleged defamation on grounds that are at best tenuous. The latest blatant abuse of political and economic power in this regard stems from a report by Rehani Isidore, a journalist with HTS Television in Saint… Read more.
I appreciate your inquiries about how my family and friends in the Caribbean weathered Matthew. Even though proverbial sitting ducks, they all hunkered down, and we all prayed for the best. Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday and intensified as it barreled toward the southeastern… Read more.
In a stunning blow to this country’s hard-fought peace deal with FARC guerrillas, Colombians on Sunday rejected the pact that held out the hope of ending a half-century-long conflict… Even as the deal seemed badly wounded, both [President Juan Manuel Santos] and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said they hoped to pull… Read more.
I’ve been determined to stand apart from the maddening gaggle of commentators who have been rushing to comment on every new scandal, gaffe, or poll this campaign season. Mind you, whenever I try to chat with friends abroad about goings-on in their respective countries, they invariably show more interest in chatting about the U.S presidential… Read more.
I thought the media could do no more to champion style over substance in American politics. But the way they’re hyping the first debate of this presidential election has disabused me of that thought. For I am truly stupefied that TV reporters and commentators are encouraging viewers to determine who wins not by the answers they… Read more.
This also explains why relying on millennial voters is like holding onto quicksilver. Read more.
Tensions have resurfaced this week in the wake of another round of black men being shot by police. The shootings of Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have served only to fuel the simmering unrest seen nationwide since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014.… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, news of the end of this celebrity relationship is providing as much fodder for gossip as news of its beginning did. Angelina Jolie broke the news to Brad Pitt that she wanted to end their two-year marriage and 12-year romance just days before filing for divorce… Though Pitt, 52, was aware that their marriage… Read more.
I’ve been calling for the United States to prosecute Snowden from the day news broke about his NSA theft. Commentaries like “Complaints about NSA Spying Are Schizophrenic … and Misguided,” June 8, 2013, “I Spy, You Spy, We All Spy,” July 2, 2013, and “From Spycraft to Stagecraft, Snowden Debuts as Putin’s Useful Idiot,” April… Read more.
Obama delivers his final address to the UN General Assembly today. Unfortunately, his recitation of achievements during his tenure as leader of the Free World will be undermined by the persistence of too many crises that have defied, even made a mockery of his leadership. Those crises include the menace of North Korean nukes, the intensification… Read more.
