In sympathy. Venezuela Has Already Been Negotiated A public power snub, staged like a reality series scripted, transactional, and unmistakably final. Dear Madam Machado, This is not a lecture.It’s a sketch because what just unfolded feels less like diplomacy and more like a cartoon, except the ink doesn’t wash off
There was a time when the world looked to America for steadiness not perfection, but proportion. Now the cameras roll, the gestures are unmistakable, and the consequences flow only in one direction. What once would have ended a career is now absorbed, memed, defended, and forgotten. This post is not
Who Is Running the Country? Asking for the USA, for Latin America, and Yes—Trinidad and Tobago A Grace Notes Witness from the Plebian Periphery I write not as a constitutional scholar or a geopolitical tactician,but as an ordinary onlooker—one of the many categorized as less adjudicated,less powerful, less billionaire, less
There is something almost liturgical about the way celebrity is being consecrated in this moment. Figures like Amber Rose and Nicki Minaj are not being engaged as thinkers or strategists, but positioned as symbols anointed voices in a Republican spectacle that repeatedly mistakes attention for authority. Amber Rose, whose public
This essay is not written from expertise or institutional authority. It is written to assert what demands attention and invite reflection. From the position of a layperson who has been, by her own admission, insufficiently engaged in the long arc of Israel–Palestine oversight even as the United States and the
Impeachment is a process. We know this.We have tried this before. Several times. And still — the scions remained. Or perhaps more accurately, the dethroned never truly lost power. Titles shifted. Seats changed. Influence did not. So when we reach reflexively for impeachment as the answer, we must also admit
Yes U.S. military flights have been cited at Trinidad and Tobago airports, and we should not look the other way. According to Stabroek News, United States military transport aircraft recently arrived at Piarco International Airport and Crown Point Airport, following formal transit permission granted by Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of Foreign
On December 17, 2025, the President of the United States delivered a nationally televised address from the White House. A presidential address is not a campaign rally, not a press conference, and not a social media post. It is an act of state delivered under constitutional authority and constrained by law, evidence,
Before I go any further, let me acknowledge something openly: my voice here is not partisan. It is not rooted in who I like or dislike, nor in allegiance to a political party or ideology. It comes from five decades of living in this country, arriving here as an immigrant and watching
Therapy teaches us that healing begins the moment we admit the wound is real. So it is mind-bending to watch entire nations — across continents, alliances, and ideological divides — participate in a global performance of denial. In the language of narcotics, this is classic enabling: the problem grows, the behavior
Written By Grace C. Walker