Dominican-Haitian Tensions: Wag the Dog or Prelude to Genocide?
A decision that strips citizenship from over 200,000 Black Dominicans was passed by the Dominican Republic’s Constitutional Court on September 23, 2013. This highly flawed ruling designates at least four generations of DR-born individuals who descended from migrant Haitian laborers between 1929 and 2007, as being the offsprings of transients and therefore unqualified for citizenship. […]
Fragmentation of News and Causes: The Urgent Need to Think Globally
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery “When the blind men had each felt a part of the elephant, the king went to each of them and said to each: ‘Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?’” When a typhoon hits the Philippines, an earthquake ravages […]
Typhoon Haiyan-Yolanda Exposes Philippine Government’s Failure and Corruption
After the catastrophic fury of typhoon Yolanda (international code name, Haiyan) that massively destroyed entire provinces and took the precious lives of people in the mid-section of the Philippine archipelago, I know that they, who are physically there — far and near — are grieving, heartbroken, weeping, disconsolate, disgruntled and angry, for I, who am […]
The Nuclear Temptation: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Iran and the Bomb
It began as an exemption. The use of atomic weapons against Japan in August 1945 by the United States signaled the use, not merely of an extraordinary weapon of destruction, but also its irresistible allure. Intricate steps and agreements have been forged in an attempt to restrict the means by which countries acquire “the bomb” […]
In the Fight Against Imperialism, Beware the Peddlers of Despair
All around us – Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, the Congo, Ivory Coast, Palestine, Somalia, Libya, and elsewhere – empires are tearing a trail of destruction. This is not a sign of strength but of weakness, because the aim of empire is not to destroy but to conquer. Since conquest cannot be achieved without the collaboration of […]
