End of tax havens on steroids
By Rolfe Commissiong From The Royal Gazette The European Parliament, by a 587-50 vote, passed a resolution two weeks ago calling for the automatic inclusion on the blacklist of countries that use a 0 per cent tax regime. They undoubtedly…
Sir Ronald Sanders: A second UN term crucial to the Caribbean
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Jamaica Gleaner United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has announced his availability to serve a second term when his current term ends on December 31, 2021. Arguably, Guterres is the UN Secretary-General that has paid the…
OPINION: The volcano is going off! what volcano is going off? They are all going off!
By Nathan’ Jolly’ Green. January 28, 2021. The volcano is going off, what volcano is going off? They are all going off. What do you mean they are all going off? When that last happened in 1816, it created the…
Rosa Miriam Elizalde: The U.S. is trying to provoke a soft coup in Cuba
Released for Syndication: 01/22/2021 By Rosa Miriam Elizalde / Globetrotter We are in the era of soft coups. Old-fashioned coups d’état and invasions get terrible press. The images of U.S. troops invading the Dominican Republic in 1965 or marching through El Chorrillo…
Chomsky and Prashad: Why Neoliberal leaders who failed to protect their countries from COVID-19 must be investigated
Released for Syndication: 01/21/2021 By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter Warnings that the oxygen supply was running out in the city of Manaus, Brazil, came to local and federal government officials a week before the calamity led to…
Stay tuned
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio In 1967, LSD and counter-culture advocate Timothy Leary produced an album mirroring his famous call to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” Though it’s unlikely to have made Billboard’s top 100 list, his ideas of tuning in and dropping…
OPINION: Saint Vincent Judas Style
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green Let us discuss Judas Law, Judas Politics, and Judas Business. The Vincentian Judas syndrome. Pontious Pilate and Herod were murderous statesmen, but unlike today’s political leaders they were then and are now historically called statesmen. Today…
SANDERS: Trump-Pompeo parting shots hurt the Caribbean
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – As they are preparing to exit the White House and the State Department on January 20, the outgoing Donald Trump administration has planted some explosives for the foreign policy of the government of…
Staying relevant
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio Our minds are like muscles. They need exercise, change, and challenges to grow and stay relevant. We all know this to be true yet how many of us actually give ourselves permission to change?…
How a lawbreaking international coalition failed to overthrow Venezuela’s government
By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron / Globetrotter On January 5, 2021, the newly elected National Assembly took its seats in Venezuela’s capital. That day the Lima Group released a statement most of its members signed saying that they did not recognize…