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Political Economy, Politics & Elections

Liberia has a system problem, but the failed politicians want to keep the country-congau debate going – A Critique of the Economic Governance System (Part 2)

By: Wonderr K. Freeman      Originally Published in August 2017 After getting a free pass from the ideologues and adherents of the country-congau divisive politicking, I feel absolutely vindicated and even bullish to move on to part two of my series on Liberia’s system problem. If Liberia is to progress as a nation, its system issues must be identified and addressed, head-on. Scapegoating, prevarications, and obfuscations will

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Politics & Elections

Liberia has a system problem, but the failed politicians want to keep the country-congau debate going – A Critique of the Political Administration System (Part-1)

By Wonderr K. Freeman      Originally Published in August 2017 The country-congau chief ideologue, Jay wion, is not going to be a happy man after reading this article, because it makes so much sense he will not have an answer for it. Like Rip van Winkle JAY fell asleep in 1957, and just woke up in 2017. So he finds understanding the present-day Liberia too downright bizarre.

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On Behalf Of The “Book People”

By: Wonderr Freeman Originally Published in October 25, 2004 If all the degree holders were to conglomerate in one locality or in one building, I should consider myself fit enough to be a proud gatekeeper, knowing fully well that the degree I have earned is still further down the ladder. Furthermore, it should be considered no disrespect to the bigwigs amongst the “book people” if I

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Politics & Elections,

Taking the low road to the Executive Mansion- the case of Liberia’s ruling Unity Party

 by Wonderr K. Freeman, Mon, Lib Originally Published in December 2017 In the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump match-up [2016], Michelle Obama made the famous quip that “when they go low, we go high”. Of course, the “low” was a reference to Trump’s bare-knuckle, no-smear-barred style of campaigning.  And the “high” was Clinton sticking’s to the issues and the script. Unfortunately, judging from how the American

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Business & Finance, Politics & Elections

CBL Economic Gospel versus the Reality of a Perpetually Sinking Liberian Dollar                   

by Wonderr K. Freeman           Originally Published in February 2012 Couple of days ago, I was combing through my stack of local dailies, and noticed a recurring theme: streams of good news of the great work the Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) is doing. I came across headlines such as “CBL accounting policies sound”, “banking sector experiences growth, says CBL”,” Liberia foreign reserves swells” etc.. It seems,

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Liberia recurrent calls for United States government to intervene in its national challenges; when will the dependency end?       

Originally Published under a pseudonym – in October 2020 History tells us that the United State of America (the US) was founded in 1776. So was Liberia – in 1847. By simple arithmetic, the US was founded about seventy-one years before Liberia. This makes the US 244 years old and Liberia 173 years old. Now, one may say the US is quite an old nation; however,

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