Republican aspirant Ron DeSantis steps up withering attacks on party frontrunner Trump in Florida
Trump, the front-runner in the Republican race, recently assailed DeSantis’ handling of the Covid pandemic, when DeSantis resisted federal mask and vaccine mandates. DeSantis called Trump’s criticisms “detached from reality” and argued Republicans would respond by supporting him.
Retooling indigenous justice system: Why Uganda should respect environmental, cultural and spiritual setting of Basoga
In the ecological-biological dimension of the environment, we in Uganda are witnessing more and more land grabbing where we used to see our people engage in highly productive bioecological farming, which was socioculturally sensitive to the survival of our indigenous people. Forests, swamps and freshwater lakes are being destroyed by greedy and selfish people whose minds are focused only on money making and primitively accumulating wealth as much as they can. This is being exacerbated by government’s choice of building money economy at the expense of more environmentally-sensitive human energy systems typical of our indigenous groups of people.
President Museveni must protect Uganda’s natural resources, else rich foreigners will grab all the gold
Kintu Mutekanga was the son of Igaga of the Musubo clan and the red small bird totem. He was sent by his father, Igaga, to work in Chief Gabula’s courtyard. While there, he acquired knowledge of the art of governance and administration. He was a trader who dealt in simple agricultural implements, clothes, beads, tobacco and also bought cattle from Bukedi through barter trade.
How colonial collaborators planted the seeds of political deceit in Uganda that President Museveni has perfected
When history writers write they write as if Busoga suddenly emerged some three hundred years ago and formed into an organised state only with the coming of the white man, which ends up presenting an unnatural history of the land. Apparently, Busoga is the natural home of Lake Victoria. And the source of the world’s longest river – the Nile, which is even mentioned in the Bible (Genesis, 41:1; Exodus, 1:22; 7:20; Isaiah, 23:10; Amos, 8:8) is in Jinja, Busoga.
Trump makes video appearance in New York criminal case, trial date set for primary in March
Trump said little during the hearing, but lashed out afterward on social media, writing: “Just had New York County Supreme Court hearing where I believe my First Amendment Rights, ‘Freedom of Speech,’ have been violated, and they forced upon us a trial date of March 25th, right in the middle of Primary season.”
Julian Assange’s supporters say their push for release Wikileaks founder on ‘cusp of success’
US prosecutors and Western security officials regard him as a reckless enemy of the state whose actions imperilled the lives of agents named in the leaked material. Stephen Kenny, a lawyer for former Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks, told the crowd that Assange had committed no crime.
Ukraine hunt for African, Latin American support as it looks for support in its war with Russia
Political analysts say Ukraine is accelerating its push to court the Global South – a term meaning Latin America, Africa and much of Asia – and that the effort has taken on greater importance as rival peace proposals to end the war in Ukraine have popped up in other capitals.
Jailed businessman pulls veil off US murky politics with details of how Russian President Putin ‘funded’ Trump
Parnas said DeSantis had agreed to meet Muraviev and knew of the tycoon’s ambitions to enter the cannabis business in Florida. The meeting, however, never happened. Prosecutors did not specifically mention the $50,000 donation by Parnas’ company to DeSantis in their federal case.
Texts tie Florida Governor DeSantis to Trump insider with financial links to Russian President Putin
DeSantis and Parnas worked more closely together than the Republican governor has disclosed, according to a detailed account of their relationship Parnas provided to Reuters and 63 previously unreported text messages from DeSantis to Parnas between May and October 2018, as DeSantis campaigned for governor. A jury later found Parnas guilty of campaign finance crimes and other charges
Why Biden, Republicans are involved in fierce haggling over debt ceiling and how the impasse could end
In Congress, meanwhile, House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries has launched a process that would “discharge” the issue to the House floor and force a vote on raising the debt limit. It’s a cumbersome legislative procedure, but Jeffries urged House Democrats to sign on to the measure in hopes of gathering the majority needed to trigger a vote.
