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Tag: politics

  • A Tweet Is Not a Ballot

    I hadn’t been thinking much about social media lately and really never intended to write my first InParentheses blog post on the topic. But after watching a Charlie Rose interview recently, I felt compelled to respond. The interview was of Roger McNamee, a technology guru and founding partner of the venture capital firm Elevation Partners,…

  • Just a Glimpse of the Political Situation in Kingston, Jamaica by M. Pitter

    Just a Glimpse of the Political Situation in Kingston, Jamaica by M. Pitter

    Kingston, Jamaica has indeed provided a battleground upon which political opposition exploded into cinder block warfare, at certain times connected to a larger network of wars popularly considered Cold in our history books. Loyalty to either one of the two political parties in Jamaica, PNP and JLP (the ones that receive the most votes) places…