April 18, 2008
April 17, 2008
Notes from Port of Spain weighs in on everything from the Pope's visit to the US: “It's not enough for the Pope to be ‘ashamed' of his American paedophile priests…he also has to do something about them” to international politics: “It's a lesson to every ...
go to article »April 16, 2008
• It's not enough for the Pope to be "ashamed" of his American paedophile priests, as he claimed to be today on his way to the US. He also has to do something about them. Actually, a lot more than just "something".The Catholic church has caused incalculable damage to individuals and families acros...
go to article »April 10, 2008
• To the Olympic Organising Committee in Beijing: Take the damn Olympic torch and go home with it. Its round-the-world tour was supposed to celebrate the Olympic spirit, but has already turned that spirit into farce. The torch has gone out several times already, and there are 20 or so cities to go...
go to article »April 7, 2008
World citizens have created a string of campaign songs in support of American presidential candidate Barack Obama that are so good his campaign ought to compile them and sell them on an album.
April 5, 2008
All around the world an energetic and unprecedented movement is growing in support of Senator Obama's candidacy to be the 44th US President. Some examples of the worldwide movement include: In Trinidad, calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow sings that America could "regain worldwide respect with Obamaâ€...
go to article »March 31, 2008
• Lil' Bush again declared that victory was being achieved in Iraq, and depicted the Iraqi prime minister as a great hero riding south on his white charger to do "defining" battle with the Shias in Basra. Zimbabwe held its breath to see whether its 84-year-old president, liberation hero turned cro...
go to article »March 28, 2008
I wish people would leave China alone. Instead of thinking ahead to this summer's Beijing Olympics, all we are hearing about is China's ruthless colonial dealings in Tibet, its lack of democracy, its human rights failings, &c., and how it should be boycotted, snubbed, insulted or at least lectur...
go to article »March 24, 2008
"I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas," Barack Obama declared last week in a speech that seemed to awe just about everyone (wow, he talked about RACE!!!). "I have brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across thr...
go to article »March 22, 2008
• I don't like the way the US presidential scramble is going, not one little bit.This weekend, taking an average of recent polls, RealClearPolitics has Barack Obama just slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, but John McCain beating either of them in a general election. A...
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