Jamaica decides to cash in on its cash crop; NBA star takes "Pledge" protest to the next level; and the head of the CIA mistakenly thinks we'll be sad when those Criminals In Action get arrested.
Jamaica decides to cash in on its cash crop; NBA star takes "Pledge" protest to the next level; and the head of the CIA mistakenly thinks we'll be sad when those Criminals In Action get arrested.
The Jamaican police are very brutal in their policingof the African working-class in Jamaica. However, oppressive conditions tend to give birth to resistance.
On this episode we talked with Casey Gane-McCalla all about his new book Inside the CIA’s Secret War in Jamaica. We began with an overview of the geopolitcal situation Jamaica found itself in during the Cold-War. Casey explained how the Caribbean nation was one of the premier battle grounds for US imperialism throughout the 1970’s-1980’s. Casey breaks down how the two dominant political parties, the Jamaican Labour Party, headed by Edward Seaga and backed by the CIA, and the People’s National Party, headed by Michael Manley and aligned with Cuba, fought a bloody struggle for dominance.
teleSUR – February 23, 2016 Jamaica’s Police Commissioner Carl Williams has been ordered by a justice of the country’s Supreme Court to turn over the personnel records of officers accused of forming part of a “death squad,” The Gleaner reported Monday. Jamaica’s Independent Commission of Investigations, took Commissioner Williams to the Supreme Court in order […]
By Kevin Edmonds | The Other Side of Paradise | May 23, 2014
