Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha April 22, 2016 Foreign Policy in Focus The Romanian church, the aristocracy, and the state institutions inherited huge sums of wealth from…
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Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha April 22, 2016 Foreign Policy in Focus The Romanian church, the aristocracy, and the state institutions inherited huge sums of wealth from…
By Dariel Garner Like Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett and H. Ross Perot, but not as lofty, I was once called a “self-made man.” I was an entrepreneur who…
By SIMON ROMERO A woman in a traditional hoop skirt walked past graves adorned with Confederate battle flags in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, Brazil. An annual celebration of the area’s Confederate many…
President Barack Obama penned a Washington Post op-ed yesterday outlining a flimsy case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The TPP is currently on life support due to a…
By the Caribbean Journal staff United States Vice President Joe Biden chaired a major summit in Washington DC this week covering Caribbean energy. The US-Caribbean and Central America Energy…
By Mark Karlin A camera records Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, November 23, 2015. Many in the news media feel their profession has been complicit in…
By Ben Morken The rally took place at a capacity crowd of more than 56,000 people at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, a township with deep revolutionary roots and immense historic…
By JACQUELINE WOODSON When James Baldwin died in December of 1987, I was 24 years old, living in a neighborhood jokingly referred to as Dyke Slope because…
BY Shaun King Kevin C. Downs/for New York Daily News Black Lives Matter protesters, in Brooklyn in 2016, must be aware of potential acts of undermining by the government. “Those…
By Richard Sudan In this handout picture taken 15 August 1947, British Governor-General Lord Mountbatten (C) gestures as he rides in a carriage alongside Lady Edwina Mountbatten prior to witnessing…
Puerto Rico Legislature in San Juan. Photo: Wikimedia/CC By Caribbean News Now contributor WASHINGTON, USA — Puerto Rico is facing a major debt crisis, and the US territory announced on Sunday that…
May 3rd 12:21 PM (5 minutes ago) Michel Martin, Emmy Award-winning journalist and weekend host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” asks former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder a question…