MollyCharles-Reflections

  The art of narration selection, building on the favoured perspective and creating acceptance happens not just in the media, the UN platform but also within institutions supposed to deliver justice, this is clearly seen in many instances with the United States. At times, it is the sound of silence from the US court that deafens humanity, as in the case of the US President proudly claiming he has bombed fishing boats, and his administration even opting for the double strike in case some soul had been left alive to bear witness to the incident. Not one official or the judiciary has asked about legality of extrajudicial killing or how did the US President or any of the official determine that fishing boat contained drugs, when the only option for detection was from the skies above, miles aways from the boat. Besides it is common knowledge that physical examination along with chemical testing is necessary to determine the chemical composition of the substance suspected to be drugs. ...

  In recent days the media has been focusing on the US President threatening to “Take over Cuba”. He elaborated further according to him, “I can take it, make it and do whatever I want with it”. It is strange to hear the US President speak about another sovereign country in this manner, evidently President Trump seems to understand sovereignty only in terms of the US and sees no relevance of it to its neighbors, as clearly illustrated in case of Venezuela. Americans from his party tend to brush it aside by saying that's his style, but that’s exactly the point, that can’t be his style as a President of the US or any other country, a verbal threat from a person in power cannot be condoned or legitimatized as part of international relationship. The abuse of Cuba is beyond political ideological difference, or a democracy’s anger at communist ideology, it is historically planned control of the entire region by the United States to make United States of Americas under the total control...