Posts tagged: Freedom
Free Tibet
‘A group of Tibetans were arrested in western China after public calls for the return of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama’, the BBC Internet reports on 3 August 2007. ‘The incident took place on 1 August at a festival in Litang town in western Sichuan’, Radio Free Asia and the ...
Gustavo Moncayo’s March for Freedom
‘A man whose soldier son was abducted by rebels a decade ago has completed a seven-week walk across Colombia in protest at the plight of hostages’, the BBC reports today 2 August 2007. After his arrival in the capital, Bogota, he asked President Alvaro Uribe to back a swap of prisoners for rebel ...
Prisoner Rehabilitation
Yes, but. There are two questions here: 1) What kind of prisoners?, and 2) What kind of prisons? Serious effort should be made to rehabilitate inmates convicted for lesser crimes. Even twice, if convicted a second time. A third time only, if the court can be convinced there is still a chance of ...
Madness US style and Cuba style
Last Sunday (29 July 2007) it was reported that the US will sell $20 billion worth of arms to Saudi-Arabia. At the same time, an arms deal is in the making with Israel. How many billions worth, we don’t know. We don’t really want to know. This stone age thinking is psychopathic madness. To invite ...
Oswaldo Payá and Freedom in Cuba
Cuba needs a peaceful transition. Yes, the Revolution was bloody and there is a problem with political prisoners in Cuba. But Batista was a cruel dictator. How else could you have got rid of him? Look at what the US did to get rid of Saddam Hussein! So, who's talking? But we have to leave all this ...
The Migration Question as Shameful as Slavery
The world is in deep crisis. We fight wars ‘for freedom’, but at the same time freedom is undermined as much from within as from without. One wonders whether the US will survive the assault on democracy from the Bush administration. We need drastic solutions, if we are to get out of this mess. The ...
Caribbean Seabed Authority (CSA)
Russia is claiming a chunk of the North Pole seabed. They believe it’s full of oil and natural gas. All nations having a Caribbean coastline should claim the Caribbean Seabed. This would include all Caribbean island nations, including the Bahamas and Bermuda, Mexico, the U.S., Central American ...
China is coming to the Caribbean
Yesterday the BBC reported that the Chinese and Singapore governments have become key investors in Barclays, helping the UK firm to raise its offer for the Dutch bank ABN Amro. The China Development Bank (CDB) and Temasek, the investment arm of the Singaporean government, have invested £2.4bn ...
LA $660 million Church settlement disproportional
The victims cried in timely fashion, the camera’s rolling. One of them claimed she has lost 19 jobs and had 3 divorces because of the sexual abuse at the hands of a priest. We are in no way defending the priests. What they did is wrong. Can we be clear on that? We know that there will be a crowd ...
What kind of democracy is coming to the USA?
The US created democracy, but US creationists are now turning it into demockracy. In 1992 Leonard Cohen wrote a song claiming that ‘democracy is coming to the USA’. Did he intuitively feel back then that democratic values were going to decline? Hard to tell, but his song turned out to be prophetic. ...
The battle for democracy is on.
The socialist vision came crashing down in 1989. But in many Latin American countries Fidel Castro still commands respect, the frontrunners being Venezuela and Bolivia. And it is easily understood why: Socialism gives the poor hope. The US gives the poor hate.
What a pity. The US revolution has ...