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When you start a journey in the wrong direction one can only hope to end up in the right place. On the issue of same-sex marriage, my dominant point is to separate religion from state.
Ideas of marriage are religious in nature. Ideas of relationship...
DATE: Dec 27, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
One day when we open up the books and be honest with ourselves, we will be able to look at the travesty that took place in the early 1990s. A travesty not quite of the proportion of the Tucker’s Town land reappropriation, but every bit as devastating...
DATE: Dec 13, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
It’s good to look at history to see what works and to ascertain systems that are more effective or best.
It’s not to suggest that we can come to a position of absoluteness, but at least we can have a comparative analysis from which to draw conclusion...
DATE: Dec 07, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
There is perhaps very little difference between a supposition and a hunch. Of the two words, I think “hunch” is the more innocent. I have been a political observer for more than 40 years and for the most part the issues were clear and the political p...
DATE: Dec 04, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
I have been pondering over several city and county names such as New York, New England, New Brunswick, and the list goes on.
The common factor is the term “new”, but probably just as common is that at one time these were new visions by persons somewh...
DATE: Nov 22, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
America will celebrate its 400-year anniversary of colonisation through Virginia. The executive branch has mobilised a committee to recognise African inclusion, and Bermuda is integral to its existence. We often hear of Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims...
DATE: Nov 16, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
The sociological theory that crisis brings change rang true in the midterm elections. Many Americans, indeed much of the world, breathed a sigh of relief if not jubilation that sanity and human civility can be effectively be re-engaged in American po...
DATE: Nov 10, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
The midterm elections today will be a referendum on whether Americans want a president or a king. No president until now has challenged the function of the republic as has Donald Trump. However, the self-proclaimed nationalist cannot do it alone; he ...
DATE: Nov 06, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
What can we in the West do for the crisis in the Middle East? The present recipe of war stokes passion, promotes ideological conflict and raises tensions between people as they are thrust together running from conflict zones. This approach may benefi...
DATE: Oct 29, 2018
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Khalid Wasi
The latest issue of world news that has entertained us and kept audiences captive for the past week has been the murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist and US resident.
It is so easy in thi...
DATE: Oct 22, 2018
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Khalid Wasi