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A Response To Nathaniel McGill Reckless Accusations Against The Progressive Class

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 admin2Headline News, Progressive Class, Tiawan Saye Gongloe0 comment

By Paul Dolo Students of Revolutionary taught do know that it is prevailing circumstances that lead people into historical struggle for the transformation and betterment of society. The material conditions of the day shall determine the generational obligation of conscious and courageous men and women who are bound to make history. If you were to make a little use of your secondary high school education, you will then better understand the material facts and analysis in the society, than just making random statements without understanding the primary nature…

China’s activities in the African continent have yet to receive the attention they deserve in the West. China’s behavior in Africa is important for three major reasons. First, China is the source of significant investment capital twinned with a prodigious ability to create infrastructure, both of which are needed by many African states. Second, China’s behavior in Africa provides the rest of the world with insight into how it will behave towards other states, particularly the states of the Global South, as it becomes equal in power with the United States. Third, what China is doing in Africa does not augur well for the rest of the world. China’s activities and behavior in Africa may only be described as neo-colonial and exploitative of African peoples and the environment.

Op-ed

Is the Africa-China Relationship at Its Lowest or Highest Level Yet?

December 22, 2021 admin20 comment

A focus on a supposed drop in Chinese financing overlooks the commitment to strengthen relations in other key areas of importance to African leaders. By Hannah Ryder, and Jing Cai As President Xi Jinping completed his speech at the eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) to an African and Chinese audience in Dakar, Senegal, fingers went to work to report the 33 percent percent drop in Chinese finance, widely reported to be the key outcome from the two-day conference. While the announcement of a commitment of a $1 billion-worth…

Lawmakers, who are furious with the Speaker’s action, have been holding closed door discussions to plan his removal. Over the weekend, more than 22 of them gathered in the Port City of Buchanan to begin making their move – the kind that will involve massive political maneuvering and bickering. This is expected to be a long haul and probably a redux of past incidents that also saw the removal of two very influential House Speakers – Edwin Snowe and Alex Tyler.

Public Policy

Liberian Legislators accused of bribery to Ratify the Mineral Development Agreement

December 22, 2021 admin2Assembly, corruption, Liberia0 comment

Former Nimba County Superintendent Madam Edith Gongloe-Weh alleges here that lawmakers of Nimba have received bribes from mining company Arcelor Mittal to ratify the Mineral Development Agreement signed between the company and the Government of Liberia. Under an $800 million agreement, ArcelorMittal Liberia is seeking additional years which will enable them to operate after completion of their first 25 years signed with the Government of Liberia in 2005 but came into operation in 2006. House of Representatives Thursday, December 16, 2021, ratified the Mineral Development Agreement with the government.…

Op-ed

The Progressive Action Front- Presidium, Youth League (PAF-YL) Pay Tribute to Vet. Edward Doe

December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 admin20 comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Progressive Action Front has lost a fearless revolutionary progressive combatant, selfless servant, and genuine patriot. This demise of comrade veteran Doe is a great loss we may not get over anytime soon considering his exceptional role played in the PAF and our common patrimony, Liberia. A great tree has fallen and comrades are conjuring Doe’s memories painstakingly. But as revolutionaries, we don’t cry about our loss but only grief on the inside. What a sad moment of emotional pain and profuse bleeding. The PAF mourns…

The two authoritative sources that I have just given do not make competence or integrity of relatives an exception to the definition. Therefore, those who are saying that the appointment of relatives who are competent and have integrity falls outside the definition of nepotism are wrong. Unless they write their own dictionaries, they have to accept the current definition of nepotism. Except for monarchies, like Kingdoms and empires, where countries are ruled by families, nepotism is wrong everywhere, especially in democratic countries such as ours. Nepotism is wrong because it is an abuse of power. It provides a situation where the best jobs in a country are occupied by relatives of public officials. It deprives better qualified citizens who are not relatives of public officials of opportunities for employment. A nepotistic leader promotes patronage, opportunism and sycophancy as avenues for employment. In an atmosphere where nepotism prevails, honest patriots and nationalists are deprived of opportunities for employment because they are not prepared to stoop so low. Nepotism therefore is a dangerous and very serious corrupt practice because it has the tendency to promote corruption and mass unemployment.

Public Policy

Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe’s Acceptance and Declaration Speech For the Liberian Presidency

December 22, 2021 admin2Headline News, Liberia, Tiawan Saye Gongloe0 comment

Distinguished platform guests, Officials and members of the Liberian People’s Party, LPP, Members and officers of Team Gongloe Liberia and USA, Members and officers of Team Gongloe Global, Members and officers of Friends of Gongloe, Members and officers of Wings of Gongloe, Officials and members of other political parties, Chiefs and elders of Nimba County, Bong County and other counties, The youth organizations, union of motor cyclists, The Market women, The business community, The Christian and Muslim communities, our traditional zoes, The Struggling Health Workers, Teachers, and other civil…

Op-ed

Official Message to the 51st Anniversary Commemoration of the Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP)

December 1, 2021December 1, 2021 admin2Liberia, Progressives, SUP0 comment

By Momo J. Peters, Chairman of SUP I bring you bountiful revolutionary greetings from the heart, veins, blood, bones, and brain of the 30th Central Committee and Politburo of the Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP). I also fetch you lukewarm revolutionary salutations on behalf of all ideological veteran-stalwarts, student-militants, cadres, and ideologues of the all-powerful Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP). This year (2021) is very significant and historic as well as quintessential in the epoch of SUP because it stampedes the 51st Anniversary and revolutionary existence of the Vanguard Student…

Artists & Reviews

Book Review: Beautiful Mind- Poetry

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 admin2Beautiful Mind, Book review, Siafa Draper0 comment

BY, MUNYAL MARKUS MANUNYI The importance of Indigenous Literature in Post-War Liberia. The book, Beautiful Mind is a collection of poignant poems, beautifully crafted with imagery and metaphors meant to explore and shake the axis of hope, faith, brokenness, abuse, loss, violence, the present, past, and future of Liberia’s economic and social landscapes. It also contains some well-articulated articles and speeches that can send the minds of readers into some realms of ecstasy, while at the same time trying to draw a dichotomy between daring situations that tries…

Public Policy

“GOL Undermines Equity in GLASCO for BAO CHICO” -LPP, Says GOL Pocketed $5M Kickback

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 admin2Liberia, Public Policy0 comment

For Immediate Release The Liberia People’s Party (LPP) has said it now has in its possession the reality of a deal of five hundred million United States (USD500, 000,000) dollars shrouded in secrecy and subterfuge, ratified by the Liberian Senate and awaiting obvious concurrence by the House of Representatives (notwithstanding the inconsequential showmanship of technicality being perpetrated by that Body) as reported in the media. In providing a foundation of its analysis on the transaction, the party quoted Samuel D. Tweah Jr, Minister of Finance and Development Planning inter…

News

Africa-China Summit ends tomorrow in Dakar, Senegal

November 30, 2021November 30, 2021 admin2Africa, China, Headline News0 comment

The summit Africa-China opened on Sunday in Senegal’s capital, Dakar. Trade and security are the main topics in discussion. During the opening, the Senegalese minister of foreign affairs appealed to China for help in bringing peace to the Sahel region. “We would like China’s influence to be a strong voice in support of Senegal and all the countries involved in the problem of insecurity in the Sahel, so that our forces there have even more legal means to fight against terrorists and irredentism, and we hope that China will accompany…

Op-ed

The Contrétemps et Médiocrité of Liberia’s Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs Representation, 1980-the, present.

November 29, 2021December 1, 2021 admin2Diplomacy, Liberia0 comment

By, Sarr Abdulai VANDI PhD Extrait Diplomacy is the conduct of the relations of one state with another by peaceful means. Diplomacy is a skill in the management of international relations. Statecraft manages state power to promote national interests and diplomacy; using non-lethal means to manage interstate relations and foreign threats is central to global Realpolitik. Rapid increases in the availability and power of information and communication technologies (ICTs) or, more correctly, telecommunications (telecoms) and info-communications (infocoms) are changing the modes of international relations and the conditions and transformations for…