Globetrotter Submission: Global News Dispatches: 4 Stories
From the Peoples Dispatch / Globetrotter News Service U.S. And NATO Allies Accounted for Over Half of Global Military Expenditure in 2022 The world’s total military expenditure surpassed $2.24 trillion in 2022, with Europe recording its steepest rise in the last three decades,…
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO TOURISM – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN (FEBRUARY 26, 2023)
“Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.” – Proverbs 3:23 The economies of the Caribbean are heavily dependent on tourism. Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) economy, unlike that of most of the English-speaking…
The 2023 Case for a Central Bank startup Equity Fund – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN (FEBRUARY 12, 2023)
“If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you are not to act as a creditor to him; you shall not charge him interest.” – Deuteronomy 23:19. The appalling global startup failure rate of 90 percent…
The Grenada Gulag extract : Langston Sibblies unfit to be Grenada DPP
By Peter Polack In January 1981 the leader of the Marxist-Leninist Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ) wrote to the Prime Minister of the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada (PRG) about the possible appointment of Langston Sibblies to a post within…
Pedro Marin: The role of the Brazilian military in the coup attempt
By Pedro Marin Source: Globetrotter The far-right mob that invaded the federal building, Congress, and the Supreme Court and vandalized government buildings at Three Powers Plaza in Brasília on January 8, demanded a “military intervention” in Brazil. They had set…
Bequia, Island in the Clouds, and Bitcoin
By Nathan J Green. Hello and Happy New Year to all my followers and friends. I am currently researching a book on cryptocurrencies. If any of you have information on scams regarding any form of cryptocurrency, would you be kind…
The Brazilian hard right are already a political cliché
By Vijay Prashad Source: Globetrotter On January 8, 2023, large crowds of people—dressed in colors of the Brazilian flag—descended on the country’s capital, Brasília. They invaded the federal building and Supreme Court and vandalized public property. This attack by the…
Jamaican soldiers dying abroad: Raising the limit of military enlistment
Jamaica has usually been conjoined in the media with beaches, reggae and rum but there is a darker side, not reparation for slavery, but the iniquity dub plate. Sons of this tropical paradise, dying in foreign places unknown to most…
Russian military pay: Does size matter?
By Peter Polack In a modern world where military conscription has almost been erased except in obsolete authoritarian regimes, one glaring example has been Russia’s one year military service requirement reduced from two years in 2008 for those 18-27 years…
A sea of tears
By Peter Polack A French knight of the Crusades, Geoffrey de Bouillon, was immortalised by the 16th century Italian poet Torquato Tasso in his epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata or Jerusalem Liberated, thus: for every drop of blood, a sea of tears….
