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The world watched anxiously as two million people marched in the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday. They were demanding Carrie Lam, the territory’s China-anointed chief executive, withdraw an extradition bill that would allow anyone arrested in Hong Kong to face trial in China. To everyone’s relief, cooler heads prevailed. There was no repeat of… Read more.
Sudan’s pro-democracy protesters celebrated the ouster of strongman Omar al-Bashir eight weeks ago. However, in doing so, they demonstrated the same naiveté as Egypt’s pro-democracy protesters when they celebrated the ouster of strongman Hosni Mubarak eight years ago. I published a commentary titled “Aping Egypt’s Ouster of Mubarak, Sudan Ousts Bashir” on April 17, 2019. In it, I admonished Sudan’s… Read more.
The Americans are warmongering – again. I hope I can be forgiven for noting that I presaged this in “Preview of Gulf War III Starring Trump as Othello, Netanyahu as Iago, and Iran Desdemona,” May 7, 2019. US President Donald Trump has dismissed Iran’s insistence it had no involvement with the attacks on two oil… Read more.
Caribbean News Now is the most widely read site for news, information, and commentary on the Caribbean. Barry Randall was its publisher and managing editor. He embodied the journalistic mission to speak truth to power and give voice to the voiceless. What’s more, he suffered dire consequences stoically for speaking that truth. One way to… Read more.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, said on Friday he would donate $500 million to a new campaign to close every coal-fired power plant in the United States and halt the growth of natural gas. The new campaign, called Beyond Carbon, is designed to help eliminate coal by focusing on state… Read more.
The media covered so much promotional hype for the 2018 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Russia that, by the time play got under way, the matches seemed anticlimactic. By contrast, the media covered so little of the same for this 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France that most people probably had no idea when… Read more.
There was a brief time in recent history when tech companies seemed to be leading a renaissance in corporate social responsibility. Then came reports about sweatshop suicides, data breaches, and the peddling of user data. Those reports revealed that these companies are every bit as irresponsible as the ones that led the industrial revolution. But… Read more.
President Trump kicked off his state visit to the United Kingdom on Tuesday by tweeting that the mayor of London “is a stone cold loser.” This, because Mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted that ‘racist groups across the world have been normalised and mainstreamed because of Donald Trump.” As they are wont to do, Trump’s apologists insisted… Read more.
Every year we mark D-Day as a day of remembrance – all in homage to the sacrifices made to win World War II. Except that we invariably spend much of it commemorating the roles the United States, Britain, France, and Canada played in the European theatre on the Western Front, while giving short shrift to… Read more.
