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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have tipped his hand unwittingly during his interview on 60 Minutes last night. Because he manifested a classic case of projection when he ascribed to President George W. Bush the intent to use the threat of attack as psychological warfare against his people. One wonders, after all, what his repeated… Read more.
Last year, I wrote a series of articles chronicling the US government’s extraterritorial prosecutions (and imprisonments) of online gambling executives who operated out of Antigua and Costa Rica. I predicted that these prosecutions, coupled with targeted congressional legislation, would spell the death throes of this once-thriving industry. For example, in the most recent of these,… Read more.
Reports that emergency surgery forced Fidel to transfer power to his brother Raúl a few days ago had Miami Cubans dancing in the streets yesterday. Their reaction did not surprise me. But I was stupefied. After all, their celebration not only betrayed their naiveté about the implications of this transfer, but also indicated how much wasted emotion and… Read more.
In November 2004, the world watched in awe as Viktor Yushchenko, scarred but unbowed by a botched assassination attempt, led Ukrainian democrats in an Orange Revolution. They were rising against the communists who had lorded over them for fifty-plus years. In April 2005, I wrote a laudatory and hopeful commentary on Yushchenko’s historic visit to… Read more.
Just over a month ago, I posted this article detailing some graphic and damningly probative testimony by the HIV-positive woman who claimed that Jacob Zuma (her dead father’s best friend and the man she regarded as her adopted father) had raped her. In his defense, however, Zuma took the stand and testified that although he… Read more.
Smart men routinely do stupid things for a little poontang – despite potentially grave consequences. And, of course, no man manifests this oxymoronic predilection more than the impeached former president of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton. Nonetheless, I suspect few of these men would do something that is clearly illegal just to “get off.” And… Read more.
“I thought: ‘Oh, no! It can’t be, he is on top of me, he is naked, I’m in his house.’ I was just confused. I actually thought it can’t be happening. At that point I faced reality. He was just about to rape me.” I said: “Eh eh (no) umalume [uncle]”. This was some of… Read more.
Attacking people on the basis of their race, their appearance, their ethnicity, is totally unacceptable and should be repudiated by all Australians irrespective of their own background and their politics. This was Prime Minister John Howard’s sensible reaction last weekend, after Australians were shocked, shocked, by the KKK-style beating white locals gave a few non-white… Read more.
Finally, a woman has done in South America what women across Europe and Africa have already achieved — cracked the political glass ceiling. On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet made history by becoming the first woman ever elected president of South America. Her victory in Chile is far more than a national milestone; it’s a symbolic breakthrough… Read more.
For years now, Arab militiamen have slowly starved and repeatedly raped the African women of Darfur as part of their cruel and inhumane campaign of ethnic cleansing More than a year ago, then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared that the systematic raping, pillaging, and killing of black Africans in Sudan’s Darfur region constituted… Read more.
