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  • Could it happen again?

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments


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    In our time
    I am become Death, destroyer of worlds.
    (J Robert Oppenheimer, scientific director of the Manhattan Project, quoting from the Bhagavad Gita upon the successful …

  • Lest we forget

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, September 6, 2009 | 2 Comments


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    In Our Time
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    Seventy years ago last week, the armies of Hitler swept into Poland, in the opening act of what would soon be World …

  • Jesse made history here

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, August 23, 2009 | 0 Comments


    In Our Time
    It’s an emotion under siege by our explanatory, know-all, internet age: Wonder, I mean. So much so that it seldom makes an appearance …

  • Keeping score on Obama

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments


    In Our Time
    Six months ago, Barack Obama came to office with his plate overflowing: a stricken US economy, two wars, and ambitious (and politically expensive) …

  • ‘Untellable grief’

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, August 2, 2009 | 0 Comments


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    In our time
    Jokes about Jamaican ostentation abound — jokes mostly told by Jamaicans themselves. You pull up next to a woman at a stoplight and …

  • In our time

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, July 19, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Water, water everywhere?

    When, many years ago, VS Naipaul referred to the land of his birth as “the little island in the mouth of the Orinoco,” …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, July 5, 2009 | 0 Comments


    The world on his plate
    Ten months ago, when John McCain suggested that rival Barack Obama join him in suspending his campaign to make a dramatic …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment


    The muse of hatred
    Back in mid-April, the US Department of Homeland Security under new Obama appointee Janet Napolitano released a sobering report on the recent …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, June 14, 2009 | 0 Comments


    The silent majority
    Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the 29th in his new series on …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 0 Comments


    A new America

    Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the 28th in his new series on …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, May 31, 2009 | 0 Comments


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  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, May 24, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Wayne Brown is a  well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the 26th in his new series on the Obama …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, May 17, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Danger signs
    Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the24th in his new serieson the Obama era.
    Almost …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, May 10, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Worse than Vietnam
    ‘The good news: Obama understands what’s wrong in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The bad news: He can’t fix it.’
    (Fred Kaplan, ‘The AfPak Puzzle’ RealClearPolitics, …

  • His people, our people

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, May 3, 2009 | 0 Comments


    The Obama era
    Wayne Brown is a well-known Trinidadian writer and columnist who now lives in Jamaica. This is the23rd in his new serieson the Obama …

  • The Obama era

    By Wayne Brown | Sunday, April 26, 2009 | 0 Comments


    Heart of darkness
    ‘The trouble with torture is that sometimes it works; and when it does, the devil sings.
    -Simon Jenkins (UK Guardian, April 21, 2009)
    As those …

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