Magic Woman of Haiti’s Mountains
This is an excerpt from my upcoming book, Marabou of My Heart. Copyright © Dady Chery and News Junkie Post Press 2021. All rights reserved. It is impossible to know precisely why, one week before my mother left Haiti, she took me to Croix-des-Prés and left me with Sò Gras. If I had to describe […]
Imtiaz Akhtar Discusses His Book of Short Stories, ‘Kafka Sutra’
With this collection of short stories, Imtiaz Akhtar makes his bold debut. Kafka Sutra is the sort of book that as a teenager, I would have loved to sneak from my mother’s shelf, and that as a mother, I would secretly enjoy letting my daughter or son whisk away. A midget who can see the future, boys, […]
Trump’s Junta: Zionist Banksters, Big Oil and the Military-Industrial Complex
In Orwellian times deception is loyalty The faint remaining hope that a Trump administration could be the beginning of a much needed reflection on decades-old failed United States policies was scattered to the winds on December 9, 2016. It is turning out, that not only emperor-elect Trump will miss a honeymoon with the people of […]
EU’s Police State of Exclusion and Fear
Two bombs in Brussels shook Belgium and the rest of Europe to the core. The event was a nightmarish flash back to the Paris attacks of November, 2015. In both cases, locally born and recruited elements of Daesh (ISIS) did the unthinkable. In Europe, just as elsewhere worldwide, security has overwhelmed the discourse. Some, from […]
Fear of Women Without Guilt
We are in the midst of a transition. The old patriarchal world, which I call analog, is a world in which Newton mechanics have prevailed, through the invention of fire, and the first and second industrial revolutions. In this old world, nations were constructed within the framework of social orders that were subjugated by religions […]