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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 4, 2012

  Reflections on the Jamaican general election - 29 December 2011

Reflections on the Jamaican election BY FRANKLIN W KNIGHT:   Jamaican election, as any election anywhere else, affords an opportunity to examine political trends as well as social attitudes. Some observations are unsurprising and in retrospect the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 26, 2011

  Bahamas: With a general election on the horizon, it is past due for Bahamian voters to cease the practice of electing visionless politicians merely on the basis of personality and flair

  Asking for Accountabi lity   By ADRIAN GIBSON ajbahama@hotmail.com     Over time, it appears that we have been repeatedly electing certain politicians who are outright pinheads and tin men, full of childish braggadocio...... [view]

Posted By:  Slic
Posted On:  Feb 25, 2011

  Wisconsin – Update: Follow the Money

Koch Industries is one of the leading (remember this point because it will be important later) Energy Conglomerates in the country. The Koch Industries’ Political Action Committee donated $43,000 to Walker’s 2010 Gubernatorial Campaign. Walker’s campaign also received...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 12, 2011

  Why third parties have failed in Belize and most Caribbean countries

By Wellington C. Ramos: In Belize, the Caribbean and to a large extent many other countries in the world, third political parties have failed to gain ground due to poor planning, no grassroots campaign and the time they launched their parties. The two oldest active...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 5, 2010

  Midterm shellacking of Obama and his Democrats

By Anthony L. Hall The ignorance of (far too many) American voters never ceases to amaze me. Only this explains the (Tea-Party) anger against President Obama that has now misled them into voting out Democrats -- who did more for them than any Congress in recent history, in favor of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 15, 2010

  The politics of race in America

Claude Robinson NEW YORK — The election of Barack Obama as president of the United States was hailed by some as a signal that America was about to begin an era of post-race politics. It doesn't look so now. Indeed, as politicians and pundits go through the dog days of summer in...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 19, 2008

  THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE

Reflections of Fidel: Trade, within a society and among countries, is the exchange of goods and services produced by human beings. The owners of the means of production appropriate the profits. As a class, they are the leaders of the capitalist state and they boast of fostering development...... [view]

Posted By:  CWBloggers
Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008

  Democracy: Disappointing in Canada, but Still the Hope of the World?

The other day I wondered how difficult it would be to explain Canadian elections to someone completely unfamiliar with democracy - the absolute monarch, for example, of some newly contacted tribe - without making the whole process sound completely mad. The conversation might go like this:...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 4, 2008

  If Obama were white

By ABDULHAMİT BİLİCİ: As a presidential election closely monitored by the entire world nears its conclusion, new issues emerge to rekindle discussions. Some of them are the same kinds of trivial matters raised by the media during every election, such as images of Sarah Palin,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Oct 3, 2008

  The battle of hope and experience

From The Economist print edition: Will America choose the old hero who favours tax cuts for business and the rich and backed George Bush’s wars? Or the young man who promises health care for all, a swift exit from Iraq and more money for the average worker? As America’s financial system...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2008

  ‘Know your place’: Obama’s challenge to American racism

By: CHRISTOPHER VASILLOPULOS: “They could succeed, but they could hardly, in any real sense, return. They could expiate their crimes in a technical, legal sense, but what they suffered there warped them into permanent outsiders.” -- Robert Hughes, “The Fatal Shore” Robert...... [view]

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