By using dollar as the currency of political and economic sanctions US dares world to find an alternative
Over the past three weeks, I have been asking financial services executives, global investors and other experts in Asia and the United States how long they think the Americans can keep at it without meaningful blowback. Several of the sources requested anonymity to speak candidly about the situation.
American supremacist group Proud Boys have spread tentacles worldwide, set for mass uprisings in coming presidential election
Today, many Proud Boys want Trump back in power, not just because of the prospect of pardons. For some, his appeal reflects a deeper cultural shift in America – from unease at changing racial and ethnic demographics to anger over immigration and a perception on the right that liberals are destroying the country. Trump frequently exploits those grievances on the campaign trail in apocalyptic language that’s echoed by some Proud Boys.
WHO ignores or knowingly misrepresents its own data on Covid to protect drug makers’ interests
Funding for essential sanitation and nutrition programmes has dropped as the WHO pushed for a shift in funding to mass vaccination in countries with young populations for a disease of the elderly to which they were already immune, supported with frankly idiotic slogans with more to do with advertising than public health, such as “No one is safe until everyone is safe.”
Minimum wage rebuff: Labour Day May 1 in Uganda will forever be grim reminder of pay injustices, worker exploitation
Unfortunately, Labor Day is often used as a day to defend workers’ rights. However, in Uganda, for the past 38 or so years, it has been a day that the ruling party, National Resistance Movement (NRM) uses to make political speeches to highlight what it has achieved and what it will achieve, if it continues in power. NRM also uses the day to give medals to some people who have helped the regime to hold onto power since 1986.
Rethinking revolution: Ugandan businesses don’t need big guns and bombs to overcome political and economic subjugation
Indians and Chines own factories, get tax holidays and even without fear or favour openly violate the Competition Act 2023. For example, since the enforcement of EFRIS, the local manufacturers have been distributing their manufactures to retailers in the countryside, which wholesale traders say violates the Competition Act, 2023.
High cost of unequal societies: Economic inequality, in effect, normalises immoral and unethical behaviour
The longer we let inequality define our contemporary daily lives, this new research helps us understand, the more unethical behaviour all around us will seem to reflect just the way our world naturally works.
Hereditary politics: Tyrants, be it in Uganda or Chad, are self-perpetuating bloodhounds
Both Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni of Uganda and Idriss Deby of Chad have a few similarities: They both loved power to the extent of excluding others from accessing it so long as they ruled; relied heavily on their armies, which they personalised; organised regular elections not to lose power to others, but simply to show that elective politics worked to prove their popularity; preferred politicomilitary politics to civilian politics and ensured that soldiers were in every civic space as dominants; and believed everything started with themselves and ended with themselves. The military is a t the centre of the electoral process.
World Bank is transforming homosexuality into a political tool to graft Western values on Ugandans
Unlike in the case of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (2014) when the Uganda Constitutional Court ruled that it violated human rights, in the case of the Anti-Homosexuality Act 2023, it on April 3 2024 ruled to uphold the law. However, institutions such as Human Rights Watch were not happy. They argue that the law has abusive and radical provisions, entrenches discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and queer (LGBTQ and makes them prone to further violence.
World Press Freedom Day: While media laws are made by rulers to tame media, it’s time for robust East African journalism curricula to protect environment
Usually, the governmental actors create economies that favour their narrow political, economic and social choices and gains, which end up complicating the environmental crisis. The solution the propose and apply to ameliorate the crisis become the new environmental challenges, problems and issues for which there is no prior experience by humanity.
How toothless, rudderless opposition is helping President Museveni build dynastic rule in Uganda
The politicians in NRM and in the parties are silent. None of them is questioning how a person born outside Uganda by parents born outside Uganda can be more patriotic than those who were born in Uganda and belong to the indigenous groups in the country.
