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The following is an edited version of a letter sent to the independent and opposition senators
The Progressive Labour Party has successfully promoted itself and its policies on a series of myths. As a Portuguese-Bermudian, one of the myths that is m...
DATE: Nov 03, 2017
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Robert Pires
Attorneys for technology giants Facebook, Twitter and Google appeared on Capitol Hill for the second day in a row yesterday, testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about their efforts to prevent Russian meddling in American politics. The...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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The following is a revised speech given at the PLP Annual Delegates Conference
Never in the annals of our modern political history in this country has a political party swept all before it in the manner that occurred on July 18, 2017.
It was a victo...
DATE: Nov 02, 2017
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Rolfe Commissiong
Populism. A word I rarely heard until a couple of years ago. Google defines it as “support for the concerns of ordinary people”. Many people, too many people, are not sharing in the growth of their countries’ economies.
In Bermuda, as in countless co...
DATE: Nov 01, 2017
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In the end, Scott Stallard’s piece, Wasted Time, really was the unintended highlight of the 2017 Charman Prize at Masterworks.
Its withdrawal from the show amid accusations of plagiarism and rule breaking is more than problematic. In the process, Mas...
DATE: Nov 01, 2017
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America’s New Red Scare escalated in mid-October as the United States Department of Justice demanded that the US division of television network RT, formerly known as Russia Today, register as a “foreign agent” under the aptly named Foreign Agents Reg...
DATE: Oct 31, 2017
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Thomas L. Knapp
Blackface is as predictable around Hallowe’en as candy, and by now the outrage in response is also pretty predictable. Julianne Hough was still apologising two years after her ill-advised use of Hallowe’en blackface in 2013 as a homage to her favouri...
DATE: Oct 31, 2017
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Nine months into gaining full control of Washington, Republicans are not where they hoped they would be. Very far from it, actually. They have no major legislative accomplishments to tout. After this past week, they are tipping into a civil war. And ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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“Aim for the stars and land on the moon”
I was involved in a recent initiative with a group of men and we were given a task. Not oddly and true to life, if there is a group of 20, you can have 20 different ideas as to how to scale the mountain or b...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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Khalid Wasi
United States immigration officials outdid themselves last week when they took into custody a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who had just undergone emergency surgery. Is this what Donald Trump had in mind when he promised that federal enforcem...
DATE: Oct 30, 2017
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The Washington Post
