Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.” “It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. – Mahatma Gandhi By S.N. Sahu Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support for Israel after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is […]
Editorial Over 1000 Israelis and an equal number of Gazans/Palestinians have been killed since Hamas (Gaza’s army as the IDF is Israel’s army) infiltrated Israel and committed what is clearly a war crime by murdering civilians. Israel responded with another of their bombardments of Gaza, the most densely populated land in the world; a place […]
Listen to this article now. By Pascal Robert Haiti has suffered under western occupations and interference in its affairs. The people of that nation are struggling to break free from that domination and can look to mass movements in Francophone Africa. There have been nine coups in the past three years in former French colonies […]
Listen to this article now By Carlton Joseph The G-20 summit hosted by India’s Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi ended with a joint statement covering a wide range of issues affecting the global economy including climate change and food supply. Importantly, The African Union, a 55-member bloc of African nations, was welcomed as a permanent […]
By Margaret Kimberley The members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) follow Biden’s Ukraine policy in lock step. In doing so they fail their constituents and discredit the legacy of Black politics. On June 11, 2015, the late Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) member John Conyers made this statement about Ukraine. “House passed my amendment […]
By Sukhram Ramkissoon Last month, a 35-year-old citizen of the Bahamas appeared before the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) in Toronto through a video conference, testifying that he fears harm at the hands of the homophobic Bahamians including his cousin due to his sexual orientation as a gay man. […]
Last Monday was the 22nd anniversary of what the world has come to know as 9/11. It was on September 11th, 2001, that four large passenger planes crashed into three sites in New York, and the fourth in Pennsylvania. Two of the planes crashed into the two World Trade Centre buildings in Manhattan, the heart […]
By Carlton Joseph The Biden Administration recently rejected the global development and security initiatives (GSI) promoted by China, stating that the US must defend the rules-based international order (RBO), that China is trying to “portray” as a Western construct. Why does the US not want to own the rules-based international order they constructed after WWII? […]
By Evelyn Bradley I waited until the end of Endometriosis Awareness Month to talk about this because I want the conversations about invisible disabilities and BIPOC bodies to not be confined to one month. There is often a disconnect between the intersectionality of cultural identity and health (or being perceived as healthy). I find that […]
By Leo Gilling Of the countries globally, and with the 2010 national report of rapes, Jamaica ranks 22nd with 24 rape incidents per 100,000 citizens. The JCF recorded approximately 6600 rape incidents between 2011 and 2020, with about 3250 cleared up. (The clear-up rate refers to all cases disposed of from the court’s active records […]
