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I’m not a very good salesman. And, this is especially the case where selling my own skills or wares is concerned. (For example, a good day for me when I was a shoeshine boy in the early 1970s was four shines at 25¢ ea….Pitiful isn’t it?!) Therefore, I shall suffice to refer you to objective… Read more.
Jamaican Barrington Irving, a 23-year old aerospace student, will fly into the history books today. Because, when he lands his private plane in Miami (God willing), he will become not only the youngest pilot but also the first black person to fly solo around the world. According to Flight Tracker, Irving took off on his… Read more.
Ordinarily I would not bother to comment on a regional soccer match between the United States and Mexico. But I feel obliged to do so after such a match became a proxy for this week’s critical debate in the US Senate on comprehensive immigration reform. Although, it would have been comical if this debate were… Read more.
The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency’s worst illegal abuses — the so-called “family jewels” documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s. [CIA Director Michael Hayden] Even though a congenital cynic, I… Read more.
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The Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity for peace. [former Israeli foreign minister, Abba Eban] Accordingly, after decades of fighting for, and being on the precipice of achieving, statehood (even getting no less a person than US President George W Bush to recognise their right of national self-determination), the Palestinians have… Read more.
I am mindful that it constitutes a passive-aggressive rebuke for me – the son of a preacher man – to have written so little that is good about organized religion. Therefore, it gives me great joy to bring you today’s good news about the Catholic Church. Because in an extraordinary decree that was published this… Read more.
Alas, Muslim fanatics have issued another fatwa against author Salman Rushdie. But this time Rushdie did not even do (or write) anything to incite their religious bloodlust. Instead, these zealous and narcissistic executioners of Islamic hegemony are braying for his head simply because the British government announced last weekend that Queen Elizabeth II will bestow… Read more.
Over the past few weeks I have received many e-mails from people throughout the Caribbean enquiring about my plans to participate in or comment on this week’s Conference on the Caribbean…in DC (and I hope the geopolitical irony in that is not lost on you). But, as the Editor of Caribbean Net News can attest,… Read more.
Today, humanitarians are taking their annual time out to commiserate about the appalling state of the 12 million refugees now mired in limbo and abject poverty in refugee camps all over the world. But, on this issue, a picture is worth a thousand words – even for an impudent and irrepressible wordsmith like me. Besides,… Read more.
