Manuel E. Yepe FIVE years ago, in June 2009, 146 years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and 150 days after Barack Obama took his oath as President, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution formally apologizing to the Black citizens of the United States for the suffering they and their ancestors experienced under slavery and Jim Crow. In July 2009 the House of Representatives ...

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Luis Brizuela Bringuez IT was enough for a high-ranking Israeli intelligence official to allege on April 21 that the Syrian government was deploying chemical weapons against so- called insurgents, for the infamous phantom to reemerge as the pretext for a possible military invention in that country. Accusations immediately rained down on Damascus from Western capitals and even U.S. President ...

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by: Sam WebbMay 8 2013 It doesn't take much to agitate the defenders of the official orthodoxy. A case in point is the smear campaign aimed at a recent commentary by Richard Falk reflecting on the horrific terrorist attack in Boston. Falk is a distinguished emeritus professor of international law at Princeton University and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in ...

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 A  PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL ARRANGEMENT THAT REPLICATED OFF THE BRITISH COLONIAL SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY TWO POLITICAL PARTIES THAT VIE FOR POLITICAL POWER BY COMPETEING IN CONSTITUENCIES THAT THEY DON'T RESIDE IN. THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM IS SET UP SO BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES USE IT ROTATINGLY TO INFLUENCE AND CORRUPT THE SYSTEM ,EXAMPLE THE ELECTORIAL COMMISSION OF JAMAICA IS ...

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Since our political independence the political machinery dominated by the two main political parties was designed to cater to the rich and powerful in Jamaica. Given the actions of our revolutionary heroes our people were taught to worship anything that have a foreign scent. Our educational system was design to create a middle class that would hold its moral allegiance to the two empires, England ...

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Written by David Brooks RECENTLY, a presidential quintet met in Texas to celebrate the opening of a library bearing the name of one of them, thereby rehabilitating, according to public opinion, one of the worst presidents of the modern era. The George W. Bush Presidential Library was inaugurated in the presence of former presidents of this country and the current one, Barack Obama. These were ...

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  Are we Listening to Bob Marley?By Julian "Jingles" Reynolds Natural MysticLyrics by Bob Marley There's a natural mystic blowing through the air;If you listen carefully now you will hear.This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last:Many more will have to suffer,Many more will have to die - don't ask me why. My brethren, the reggae icon from Jamaica, the late Robert Nesta ...

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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released Tuesday. Somalia, Congo, Mali, Sierra Leone and Central African Republic are the five countries with the highest rates of such deaths, according to the report "Surviving the First Day" from ...

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 It is befitting to reflect on one of the greatest icon  of Jamaican birth that created  mankind greatest inspirational movement during the period of Jim Crow laws in the United States of America of which the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a victim. It is not a coincident that our Government since independence have strive to crush the teachings and practises of our National ...

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The Jamaica Patriotic Movement on behalf of the people of jamaica congratulate Nicolas Maduru for winning and affirming the policies of Hugo Chavez. This victory is a welcome one for Latin America,the Caribbean and all the worlds poor and working class people who are demanding a change for a better life. The Petro- Caribe agreement of which Jamaica is a signatory is in safe hands and will help in ...

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With the failure of its Plan B (destabilization), the Venezuelan opposition finally, on April 17, called on the National Electoral Council (CNE). It took three days for the Capriles Radonski campaign staff to make a formal complaint calling for a recount of the votes. Before they could arrive at this level of "civilized" behavior, eight people – all Maduro supporters - had to die and the entire ...

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A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago. A virtually infinite number of life forms ...

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In keeping with our tradition of letting the truth be known we have decided to publish the full text of Fidel Castro,s tribute to his friend and comrade the late Hugo Chavez. The main stream media purposely and consistently only report half truth and complete lies to fool our people . THE best friend the Cuban people have had throughout their history died on the afternoon of March 5. A call via ...

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 by Norman Markowitz Before Hugo Chavez was widely known in the U.S., Irish film-makers, doing a documentary about Chavez during his second term as Venezeula, found themselves in the middle of a coup lanched by the Venezuelan oligarchy with the support and aid of the U.S. against his government. Although Chavez life was in danger, as were the lives of other members of his government and ...

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On behalf of the people of Jamaica we want to extend to the people of Venezuela our heartfelt condolences to the passing of a true nationalist and anti-imperialist. We thank you Chavez for showing us your kindness and sympathy for the least among us in provide us relief through the petro-caribe program with discounted fuel cost and monetary assistance for development projects. We also thank you ...

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  Claudia Fonseca Sosa "TODAY we live in a world characterized by injustice, in which powerful nations have the authority to decide how to use the natural resources of less developed countries and the prices they will pay for them. A world in which the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer."These comments were made by Wynter Kabimba, General Secretary of the governing Patriotic Front ...

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The government and the opposition labor party did not take into consideration the impact of this agreement on the majority of our people who are already burden with this monstrous high cost of living. This agreement exposes the collusion between the Private Sector, the governing party, the opposition and the international monetary fund.If precedence is any guide the last agreement saw only the ...

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The negotiation between our government and the technical IMF team has just concluded with an agreement to keep our country debt load extended and increasing with no end in sight. The international monetary fund is the lending arm of the capitalist country with the United States as the majority shareholder, thus the kingmaker. It is design to keep your economy tied to the western financial system. ...

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The Jamaican government and the opposition labor Party are both crying foul over the January 8th publication by one of Americas leading rightist newspaper,the chicago tribune, blaming both political actors for our country's astronomical debt problems. The tribune was correct in that regards but hypocritical in stating the real reason behind both Jamaican and Greece debt woes. The tribune, our ...

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THE Pentagon has announced that it is to send small Army teams to 35-plus African countries in 2013. U.S. to send military missions to more than 35 African countries in 2013Initially, the objectives of the U.S. military teams will be confined to training and equipping national armies. They could participate in military operations, although this would require a special order from the Defense ...

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