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 »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...
go to article »March 18, 2008
Here's the theory about what really happened to disgraced New York governor Eliot Spitzer last week, and what it has to do with the "sub-prime" crisis that has the world's financial institutions trembling.It comes from my favourite investigative reporter and conspiracy theorist Greg Palast (author o...
go to article »March 15, 2008
• Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? asked Juvenal, the Roman satirist. Who will guard the guards?Here in Trinidad, it's a good question these days. Who will police the police? Who will restrain the politicians?One of the more useful tools of a democracy is the parliamentary or congressional committee...
go to article »March 10, 2008
• In a press interview, one of Barack Obama's advisers, Samantha Power, called Hillary Clinton "a monster" who would stoop to anything. She warned the interviewer that "that's off the record". But the paper (The Scotsman) went ahead and printed it anyway, causing a furious row, and Power had to re...
go to article »February 5, 2008
How on earth did a place like Iowa manage to anoint Barack Obama as their favourite Democrat yesterday? Mike Huckabee for the Republicans I can understand — he's a regular religious fella who plays bass guitar and cracks jokes, doesn't believe in evolution, opposes abortion and gay rights, and str...
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