Oct 30
Thirteenth Annual Eric Williams Memorial Lecture of the School of Public and International Affairs, Florida International University delivered on October 28, 2011. Dr Griffith is Professor of Political Science, Provost and Senior Vice President at York College,The City University of New York.
CONTENTS I. Introduction*/ II. The Drama of Drugs/ III. The Crucible of Crime/ IV. Challenges to Security and Sovereignty/Jamaica’s Dudus Affair/ Trinidad and Tobago’s State of Emergency/ V. The Subtitle, the Questions/ VI. Conclusion. Also statistics on Drugs and Crime in the Caribbean.
Oct 29
Interview with Salim Lamrani on his book titled État de siège. : “The Economic Sanctions against Cuba Constitute the Principal Obstacle to the Development of the Country”
The book it covers the unilateral economic sanctions that the United States first imposed upon Cuba at the height of the Cold War with the aim of overthrowing the revolutionary government of Fidel Castro…the Cold War is only a fading memory; still the United States persists in maintaining an economic state of siege that is suffocating for all levels of the Cuban population, although it primarily affects the most vulnerable sectors: women, the elderly and children…
Oct 27
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said Monday the death of Colonel Muammar Abu Al Gaddafi marks the end of a painful and tumultuous chapter for the people of Libya who have endured a protracted conflict in that country over the past eight months…
Oct 26
This booklet, illustrated with photographs, presents 41 articles that appeared online in 2011, containing news and commentary by several authors on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth and the 30th anniversary of the death of Dr Eric Eustace Williams (1911-1981), noted Trinbagonian and Caribbean visionary, leader, statesman, prime minister, scholar, and teacher. It was compiled as a tribute to Dr Williams by Peter Jordens, economist and scholar of Caribbean affairs from Curacao.
Oct 23
Oil, countering of Russian and Chinese influence, access to African resources, and the targeting of troublesome leaders and regimes, lie behind the Western-sponsored overthrow of the Libyan regime and murder of its leader. Syria, Iran and Venezuela are in the Western sights, and even Russia and China could be targets of imperial belligerence.
The savage killing Thursday of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi served to underscore the criminal character of the war that has been prosecuted by the US and NATO over the past eight months. The assassination follows NATO’s more than month-long siege of Sirte, (which left) virtually every building smashed, with untold numbers of civilians dead, wounded and stricken by disease, as they were deprived of food, water, medical care and other basic necessities…
Oct 20
With every passing day the concepts of international morality and the rule of international law are being murdered in Libya! And so, if it turns out to be true that the British, French and American forces of NATO have finally succeeded in assassinating Libya’s Muammar Gadaffi - just as they have murdered thousands of his fellow citizens - this may well turn out to be the final nail in the coffin of the system of “international law”…
Oct 20
Gaddafi’s killing - with all the hallmarks of a ‘coordinated assassination’ - marks ‘one more episode in this NATO war in Libya and North Africa’, writes Horace Campbell. The ‘remilitarisation of Africa and new deployment of Africom is a new stage of African politics,’ says Campbell…
Oct 20
The life and work of Martinican intellectual Frantz Fanon (Black skin, white masks) will be the focus of a colloquium to be held at Havana’s Casa de las Americas cultural institution, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death. “Topicality of Frantz Fanon: towards renewed humanism,” is part of the cycle Caribbean Social Thinking, and will take place October 24th–28th, highlighting the humanism of the author and his proposal to decolonize knowledge…
Oct 20
The Marcus Garvey People’s Political Party (MGPPP) is calling for a demonstration in front of the Bank of Jamaica on Thursday at 1 PM to express sentiments similar to those being made in America by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement or the 99% Movement and which has now spread to many other countries especially in Europe…
