You, dear readers, might be wondering why I return – time and again – to matters overseas. Now, even if our own “poems man and seer” Martin Carter hadn’t prophesied 50+years ago that we’re all involved and we’ll all be consumed, we have enough evidence from the last few years that he wasn’t just talking about INSIDE Guyana. We, literally and figuratively, ain’t no island!! So, as Bashar al- Assad flees to Russia with his Diana-like beautiful British wife, we need to think about exactly HOW we’ll be affected down here in ole Mudland.
Yesterday, your Eyewitness offered a teaser when he reminded that, back in 2007, US General (rtd) Wesley Clark had revealed the US military strategy following 9/11: “We’re going to take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing it off with Iran”. Well, as the old nursery rhyme lisped, “…and now there is ONE” – Iran!! One by one, they were picked off by the Yanks, first in a “war on terror”, then a “war for democracy”, and now a combination of both??
So, for Iran, when it rains – as it has when its allies in Lebanon and Syria have fallen – it pours…and not by accident!! While sanctions have been slapped on them for years, and have severely affected their oil-based economy, look what has happened in just this year. Syria’s regional arch-enemy Israel – armed and funded by the Yanks – has practically extirpated its ally Hamas in Gaza through a genocidal campaign that now gives Israel the “lebensraum” – living space, as was ironically demanded by Hitler for the Germans!! – that Israel wanted since 1948. The Nakba of that year merely EXPELLED the Palestinians; this genocide wipes them out.
Assad’s Syria, Iran’s ally, had been pounded by Israeli attacks that destroyed their air defence systems, and Assad’s now gone. At the same time, Syria’s ally Hezbollah, over in Lebanon – which had given the Israelis a bruisin’ a decade ago, and was thought to be a formidable force – has been decapacitated through not only direct attacks, but through assassination of its leaders using superior technology like phone-bombs. The deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash earlier this year have, moreover, scuppered succession plans for Tehran. As such, Iran’s been weakened, and it’s felt that Trump might take a harder line than Biden did when he takes power next month!!
So how does this matter to us? For one, we’re now an oil-producing state, and should know that whatever affects Middle-East oil affects us!! And secondly, if Mad Maduro – with his 300-BILLION-barrel oil reserves – keeps on tweaking the Americans’ nose, he’s cruising for a bruising!
Which gonna drag us in!!
…to riggers
Four years ago, Reg 4 RO Clairmont Mingo did his thing to rig the March 2, General Elections with spreadsheets and bedsheets. It’s three years since he, GECOM CEO Lowenfield, Dep CEO Myers, together with former APNU+AFC Minister and PNC Chair Volda Lawrence, Coalition activist Carol Smith-Joseph, and several GECOM Secretariat employees, were charged with trying to rig the elections by declaring a false account of votes for the said elections.
The case kept getting delayed over that time for all sorts of reasons – even though its resolution gotta be one of the most important items on the national agenda – especially when General Elections 2025 are nigh upon us!!
Eyewitness ain’t surprised now that we finally have a new magistrate, after the previous one called in sick for months. The defence wants the trial to begin all afresh – “de novo”!!
While time longer than twine, does the Opposition – with one leader being the defence attorney – want to postpone elections 2025?? Justice delayed…??
