Law And Justice – Do Not Confuse Them
As a young man — wide-eyed and full of enthusiasm — this writer was enamoured by the legal profession. After watching such television programmes as Perry Mason, Crown Court, and Petrocelli — …
No separation between the economic and political spheres
Can the political and fiscal/economic spheres ever be separated? For the past 70 years, post-World War II, we have seen how the world has moved from the economic sphere being firmly …
Let’s Say They Had Succeeded, What Would Have Happened Then?
“Proud Boys,” “Oath Keepers,” “QAnon,” “3 percent,” “Boogaloo,” and “NSC-131” are some of the white racist extremist groups which were responsible for the attempted coup d’etat in Washington, DC on January …
Can Industry And Government Be Trusted To Protect The Environment?
There has been much talk in the United States about the threat posed by “big government” to civil liberties and to laissez-faire economics. Nothing seems more virulent than the tension posed by …
The Problem Of Labels In The Current American Landscape
Junior Murray Perhaps one of the most hated words in the modern American society — one often used as a term of derision — is the word “liberal.” The vehemence and …
I Swear – How Serious Is The American Pledge Of Allegiance
“I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” With those …
Who Should Be Recognised As Heroes?
What if a public figure who you revere as a hero was found guilty of a crime or of some act of gross immorality — should the honour for such an …
Why Try To Prevent Discussion, White America?
Why do those who initiated the conversation on race get to be the ones to end it, here in America? In fact, what they were engaged in was no dialogue at …
Why The Overkill?
It was the late American novelist, playwright and social activist, James Baldwin, who wrote: “…for power truly to feel itself menaced, it must somehow sense itself in the presence of another power …
The Power Of Symbolism
In the I800s, American novelist, short story writer and poet, Louisa May Alcott, – the author of the novel “Little Women” – wrote the following words: “Far away there in the sunshine are my …
American Democracy A Funny Thing
Democracy, at its most rudimentary level, as practised in the United States, is a very strange ideological animal. If it were a creature in the wild it would be more of …