NEED TO KNOW GUAM [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/8cf6d764-462e-449a-a643-e61b65c58c04.png"] Historic Liabilities When Walter Denton was 13 years old and growing up in the US territory of Guam, he told his mother that Father Tony Apuron had raped him. He also told another priest, but nobody believed him. “In a place that emphasizes strict obedience...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW TURKEY [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/7690ac2f-dd96-41b5-a42f-055b31e06d65.png"] Missile Diplomacy US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria are in retreat. As the BBC explained, the troops pulled back from areas along the Turkish border as part of an agreement between US and Turkish leaders. Turkey considers the Kurdish forces in Syria to be an...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EASTERN EUROPE [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e2cfe4a5-51a1-425f-b068-e5ad1da5d4f1.png"] Dueling Memories Europeans last month celebrated two anniversaries dating from the modern era. Aug. 19 marked the 30th anniversary of the so-called “Pan-European Picnic” in the city of Sopron in northwestern Hungary. In 1989, the then-communist government of Hungary and the neutral government of...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ERITREA [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/aa5ffd4b-5322-485b-84c2-7800b19541d2.png"] We Don't Need No Education Every Eritrean high school student spends the 12th grade at the Warsai Yikealo Secondary School and Vocational Training Center near the border with Sudan. The students quickly realize that reading and arithmetic are not uppermost in their masters’ minds. “From...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW EUROPEAN UNION [map url="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/a2e22d7f24f6d1e3464d05be4/images/e5b071a0-f819-400f-82ba-dc62c31b3637.png"] Waiting Rooms of History American actor Richard Gere recently delivered humanitarian supplies to a boat of migrants that had been plying the Mediterranean for more than a week because Italian and Maltese authorities refused to let it dock at their ports. Gere was...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW COMOROS An Act of Courage Comoros President Azali Assoumani was recently targeted for assassination as he campaigned ahead of his east African archipelago nation’s March 24 presidential election. “People left explosives at the top of a mountain to cause an avalanche when it exploded,” campaign director...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW THE EUROPEAN UNION Losing A Limb Brits who fancy fresh tulips can now pop over to the corner shop to pick up the flowers, thanks to the seamless supply chain between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. “The Hook of Holland, a stretch of land outside Rotterdam sliced by canals, functions in many ways...
Read full story →Giving Thanks – Around the World Thanksgiving is arguably the most American of holidays. Originating in the devout Christian culture of early 17th century New England, Thanksgiving is secular. It's also diverse and open – following in the spirit of Pilgrims breaking bread with the Native Americans:...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW SYRIA The Indispensable Nation Is Russia the indispensable nation in the Middle East? Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Sean McFate thinks so. Pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and other steps by the administration of US President Donald Trump have undercut...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ERITREA Bald Men, Combs and Despots Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki delivered a powerful speech last month to mark the 25th anniversary of his country’s independence from Ethiopia. “We have confronted the myriad tentacles of adversity with patience, resilience and strong defiance,” he told citizens in Asmara...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW CRIMEA From Russia with Love Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a $4-billon bridge linking mainland Russia with the annexed Crimean peninsula in a polished television event typical of the newly re-elected president's trademark machismo. With Russian oligarchs in tow, a jeans-clad Putin climbed into...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW GAZA Dreaming a Different Day Ahmad Abu Artema describes himself as a dreamer. "I looked up at the birds in the sky, flying through the trees on both sides of the barbed wire fence without being stopped,” he told CNN. “What is simpler than this? The...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW MALAYSIA A Shimmering Light Just days before Malaysians took to the polls to elect a new parliament this month, political analysts were fairly certain that Prime Minister Najib Razak, a member of an influential Malaysian political dynasty who'd been in power since 2008, would lead...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW VENEZUELA Force and Change Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro learned politics under Hugo Chavez, the socialist firebrand who served as the South American country’s leader from 1999 until his death in 2013. Chavez was democratically elected, but Canada’s Globe and Mail described him as an authoritarian...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW CHAD Off the Blacklist Citizens of Chad are able to once again enter the United States after President Trump removed the predominantly Muslim, Central African nation from the list of countries falling under his controversial travel ban. The reversal was a calculated decision, as Chad counterterrorism...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW NICARAGUA 'We Are Nicaragua' When the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua overthrew President Anastasio Somoza in 1979, ending an almost 40-year family dictatorship, and arranged for the country's first free elections in 1984, the Sandinistas hoped their presidential candidate, Daniel Ortega, would lead the...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW ARMENIA From Prisoner to Premier Armenian journalist Nikol Pashinyan was kicked out of college in 1995 for his political activities, and was charged with libel in 2000 during his tenure as editor-in-chief of a liberal daily critical of the government. He then faced an assassination attempt...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW UNITED KINGDOM The Ties that Bind The Sackler family of London derives its wealth from manufacturing OxyContin and other opioids. They’re known around the British capital as jet-setting philanthropists and business leaders. But for years, the Sacklers’ private companies have been routing sales through Bermuda, a...
Read full story →NEED TO KNOW SLOVAKIA Deadly Revelations The shocking killing of a young Slovakian journalist investigating ties between an Italian organized crime network and the political establishment has transfixed the nation – and destabilized the country. On Thursday, the Prime Minister Robert Fico resigned. The Slovakian leader had been able to...
Read full story →Dear Readers, Today is Christmas Day in America, and we are taking a respite from the world's troubles and, instead, offering a special essay to mark this holiday and all others at this time of the year. We at DailyChatter wish you a season of peace,...
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