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The Washington Post spent two years investigating America’s longest – and ongoing – war and found that the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan not only cost at least a trillion dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives but also that the nation was lied to on its progress. And yet exposure of the lie by The Post in a series of articles labeled The Afghanistan Papers, has not generated anything like the uproar created by The New York Times’ Pentagon Papers’ in in 1971 about deception over the Vietnam war.
The timing of the Afghanistan series probably has a lot to do with the seeming national apathy, coming as it did during the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump which has dominated the news. But it is also a sign of the times. “We have normalized war,” Post reporters Samuel Moyn and Stephen Wertheim said in an analysis of the Afghanistan report. Continue reading
Guyana: Don’t Mess with Christmas and Independence – by Francis Quamina Farrier + 2 Videos /Photos
Folks stop me all the time to share some of the things which bother them as citizens of The Cooperative Republic of Guyana, asking me to write about whatever the issue is. John’s issue was about two special days on the Guyanese calendar – Christmas and Independence. Since we are now in the Festive Season I was not surprised that he wanted to bare his soul about some of what bothered him regards this particular year-end Holiday.
“Too commercialized”, he blurted out, regards the Pre-Christmas commercial activities as one of those “Music Carts” went by blasting “All I want for Christmas is You” by Maria Carey. Incidentally, after twenty five years, that very popular Christmas song has finally reached Number One on the charts this year, 2019. Deep inside, I thought to myself that the commercial activities at the end of the year which includes the Christmas Holidays, are all part of the culture of many countries around the world, including our own Beautiful Guyana. Continue reading →
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