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BC Cook “THINGS fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/ Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/ The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/ The ceremony of innocence is drowned;/  The best lack all conviction while the worst/ Are full of passionate intensity.//  Surely some revelation is at hand;…

Ambrose M. Bennett THIS is a special response to the Cannabis Commission & the deflecting & gaslighting LIES. The Truth is, our Cannabis Commission or CC is a DUD (useless), yet they are still in operation when it needs to be resolved like I wrote in the original draft. In his own words Mr.…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is “every cut to education is a cut to the future of the CNMI” and my complaint with the COE doesn’t mean he is doing a bad job, just infected with CNMI’s ugly “blackballing politics”. However, I can’t remember this happening when Kilili was our Delegate, as he was alwa…

EARLIER in the year, to forestall the continuing fall in his approval ratings in the face of increasing favorable numbers for the Vice President of the Philippines despite revelations about confidential fund misuse and a pending impeachment trial, Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos decided to…

BC Cook WE have looked at volcanoes, tsunamis and other natural disasters in the recent past. The Tambora eruption of 1815 was the largest eruption in recorded history and possibly of all time.  Rather than talk about explosions, lava flows and tons of debris scattered by the blast (all of which I …

EDWARD C. Banfield (1916-1999), who earned his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago, was considered “one of the leading scholars of his generation.” He taught at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and was an adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. Radical students w…

Ambrose M. Bennett THE Truth is “WE have a Failure to Communicate in the CNMI,” as it is common practice on the mainland to see activist ignite and push issues to the surface to be “addressed as a grievance for the government to resolve.” But this is not the case in the CNMI given Ambrodamus is the…

Lin Chia-lung TODAY, the world faces mounting uncertainties and challenges — from prolonged conflicts and democratic backsliding to economic coercion and disinformation campaigns. Authoritarian regimes increasingly employ gray-zone tactics that undermine the rules-based international order. In this…