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No one should be surprised that Venezuelan President (for life) Hugo Chávez is a bullying, thin-skinned megalomaniac for whom freedom of expression is tantamount to anarchy. Nor should anyone be shocked, shocked that he’s hell-bent on squashing any political opinion that challenges his Castro-inspired quest for absolute power in Venezuela or his Bolivar-inspired quest to… Read more.
I appreciate it when visitors have good things to say about their Caribbean vacations. After all, the livelihood of my people depends on tourists regaling other with their stories. But I resent it when tourists presume they know how beautiful my country is after spending a few days there lounging on a beach at some… Read more.
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Last Friday, Caribbean Net News (CNN) published my commentary – entitled The tragedy of being Haitian at home and at sea – on the interdiction of a Haitian boat by the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) police, which resulted in the tragic death of 61 refugees after the boat capsized. And in that commentary I… Read more.
Yesterday God struck down controversial televangelist Rev Jerry Falwell with a sudden heart attack. He died while sitting comfortable in his office at Liberty University, which he founded in 1971 in his hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia as a Bible training college. It is a manifestation of God’s abiding grace, however, that he allowed Falwell to… Read more.
Last February I published an article in which I expressed dismay and consternation over the refusal of the Japanese government to acknowledge the historical fact that Japanese authorities forced “comfort women” in Japanese-occupied territories to work as sex slaves during World War II. But here, in part, is how I urged the relatively-new government of… Read more.
The Robert Mugabe government of Zimbabwe is the most corrupt, dysfunctional and incompetent in Africa. And, on a continent that has the most corrupt, dysfunctional and incompetent governments in the entire world, Mugabe’s achievement in this regard is a truly dubious distinction. [The iPINIONS Journal, March 2005] Since 2000 I have written a series of… Read more.
Happy Mother’s Day Read more.
Reports that the Iraqi Parliament is planning a two-month summer break provoked American critics of the Iraq war to vent what little outrage they had left. But this, in turn, prompted the preternaturally tone-deaf President George W. Bush to dispatch VP Dick Cheney to Iraq this week to scare those insolent and indolent Iraqi politicians… Read more.
Given the article I published yesterday on The belated resignation of British PM Tony Blair, you can be forgiven the impression that I think Former President Bill Clinton surpassed Blair as a national leader in every respect. But this is not so. Because – in another historic juxtaposition of their careers – while Clinton was… Read more.
