The security forces in Haiti have been making steady if incremental advances over the last couple of weeks, I hope the trend continues…
05.03.2026 21:09
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The security forces in Haiti have been making steady if incremental advances over the last couple of weeks, I hope the trend continues…
Mullin has no law enforcement or military experience but supports making abortion illegal in all cases (incl rape, incest & life of the mother), voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act & supports cutting Medicaid so naturally Fetterman supports him.
Not a new or profound observation but it is extraordinary how useless Google has become as a search engine for trying to find basic information on just about anything...
Today's Republican Party: "In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish & gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics." www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
AI is destroying the world & we should reject it: "Just down the road from Gossett’s house, 18 methane gas turbines had arrived on trailers on behalf of the richest person in the world. Without warning, the temporary turbines began running day & night" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
He followed all the rules and they still kidnapped him & let him die: "Damas — who has a pending asylum claim, and entered the U.S. via the Biden-era humanitarian parole program for Haitian immigrants — was taken into ICE custody in Boston in September 2025" tucson.com/news/local/b...
How things going in Venezuela, you ask? The chavista dictatorship, the apparatus of which has been left completely intact, is still using the military to shut down radio stations it deems too critical elpais.com/america/2026...
He needs to go: John Fetterman is the only Democrat to vote against curbing Trump’s power to order strikes in Iran www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...
This is a good recipe for an internecine civil war which the United States will then wash its hand of as it always does.
The current occupants of the White House are so proudly ignorant they don’t even know what year the American Revolution began.
On 27 March at the University of Florida in Gainesville, a talk centered around my forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, coming out with @ugapress.bsky.social later this year.
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Once Trump tasted blood after his attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, in Iran itself last year, in Venezuela and after his government killed American citizens in the streets of Minneapolis, he found it an intoxicating drink and liked the flavor and now here we are.
Some areas formerly occupied by gangs have been reclaimed by govt forces in Haiti's Mirebalais www.alterpresse.org/Haiti-Crimin...
Fierce clashes in South Kordofan as ‘RSF seizes key town’ www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/...
This is a worrying sign for Chile's usually-robust democracy: La relación de Boric y Kast salta por los aires a una semana del traspaso de poder elpais.com/chile/2026-0...
So a couple thousand sullen, bitter voters in Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin & elsewhere could make a petulant point about egg prices, trans using bathrooms, Gaza, etc, the US will end the Trump era with virtually no real friends or allies abroad, untrusted & disrespected around the world
On 27 March at the University of Florida in Gainesville, a talk centered around my forthcoming book, With the Pen In One Hand and the Sword in the Other: Haiti and the United States in the Nineteenth Century, coming out with @ugapress.bsky.social later this year.
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Overdue: US sanctions Rwanda's military and top commanders over fighting in DR Congo www.bbc.com/news/article...
Paul Kagame's proxies still running wild in DR Congo: UN experts warn of extreme M23 violence targeting human rights defenders www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
When he spoke of "corrupt politicians who have betrayed the people," was the guy who created the chimere - sending a generation of young men to their needless deaths - and who pillaged state resources during his time in office looking in the mirror? lenouvelliste.com/article/2647...
Between his Nazi tattoo, sharing Nazi influencer content on Elon Musk's platform and hanging out with (and praising) Holocaust deniers and antisemites, what else does this wolf-in-sheep's-clothing need to do to show people who he really is? www.yahoo.com/news/article...
U.S. troops are dying in a war that neither he nor anyone in his family will ever have to fight in. Meanwhile…
Yet another example of the U.S. Secretary of Defense publicly confessing to being a war criminal.
I reported on this mine while living in Australia. May these communities get some measure of justice: "Friday's decision...ordered the Northern Territory to pay more than $54 million in compensation to Traditional Owners over the development of the McArthur River Mine" nit.com.au/01-03-2026/2...
Paranoia in Havana: Nighttime Military Convoys, Mysterious Trucks, and Explosions www.14ymedio.com/cuba/paranoi...
If this U.S. playbook in Venezuela is anything to go by, Trump's "plan" for Iran will be to decapitate the regime while leaving the repressive apparatus in place and then striking deals for himself and his cronies.
FARDC announces the recapture of the strategic town of Mikenge in DR Congo's Fizi Highlands www.radiookapi.net/2026/03/02/a...
Today is the 461st anniversary of the founding of Rio de Janeiro, the city that served as my home for a large chunk of 2004-2006 & where I wrote my first book in a little flat in the neighborhood of Santa Teresa. I felt a lot of love & had lots of adventures there. O Rio de Janeiro continua lindo.
What a strange story: Florida poet ID’d among dead in Cuba shootout fantasized about counter-revolution www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Violents combats entre l’AFC/M23 et les Wazalendo à Masisi www.radiookapi.net/2026/02/28/a...