INSTEAD OF CUTTING FORESTS AND BURNING DUNG AND CHARCOAL, SHOULDN’T AFRICA HAVE CHEAP ELECTRICITY? by Duggan Flanakin, ©2019 (Oct. 30, 2019) — China, India, Vietnam and other nations are using more and more oil, natural gas and coal every year to electrify and modernize their nations, create jobs, and improve their people’s health, living standards […]
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Fighting for Energy and Human Rights Equality in Africa
THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY UGANDA HAS LOST ANOTHER LEADER, BUT THE FIGHT CONTINUES by Paul Driessen, ©2019 (Feb. 26, 2019) — “She has gone to the Lord,” her sister Diana told me a few days ago. And with Fiona Kobusingye’s passing, after a courageous battle with cancer, the Congress of Racial Equality Uganda lost […]
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The Post & Email Extends its Condolences to the Family and Colleagues of Steven Lyazi
LIFE OF YOUNG UGANDAN WRITER LOST IN TRAGIC ACCIDENT by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 21, 2018) — While reviewing Paul Driessen’s weekly column on Saturday night, The Post & Email learned that prolific young writer and Ugandan citizen activist Steven Lyazi was killed in a vehicular accident in Kenya on December 12. Lyazi’s columns were published at […]
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The Fake “Trump is Racist” Issue
TRUMP’S WORDS ARE FAR LESS DESPICABLE THAN WHAT GREEN-DEMOCRAT POLICIES DO TO PEOPLE by Paul Driessen, ©2018 (Jan. 20, 2018) — By now, nearly the entire world has heard reports that President Trump referred to the origins of some immigrants as “sh**hole countries.” Democrats and their media allies spent an entire week castigating the president, […]
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Politicized Sustainability Threatens Planet and People
IT DRIVES ANTI-FOSSIL-FUEL AGENDAS AND THREATENS WILDLIFE, JOBS, AND HUMAN HEALTH AND WELFARE by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Oct. 7, 2017) — Sustainability (sustainable development) is one of the hottest trends on college campuses, in the news media, in corporate boardrooms and with regulators. There are three different versions. Real Sustainability involves thoughtful, caring, responsible, economical […]
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What Natural Disasters Should Teach Us
HURRICANES, LANDSLIDES AND OTHER DISASTERS SHOW AFRICANS WHY WE NEED FOSSIL FUELS by Steven Lyazi, ©2017 (Sep. 29, 2017) — I express my deepest sympathies to the people in the Caribbean and United States who have been impacted by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. The loss of life was tragic but has thankfully been much […]
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Enemies of Humanity
MOSQUITOES AND UNCARING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS PERPETUATE POVERTY, DISEASE AND DEATH by Steven Lyazi, ©2017 (Jul. 26, 2017) — After being infected again with malaria last July, I spent almost a month in a Kampala hospital. Paying for my treatment was extremely difficult, as it is for most Ugandan and African families. I was lucky I […]
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Green Energy Poverty Week
A WEEK DEDICATED TO TOPICS THAT UNDERSCORE IMPACTS ENVIRONMENTALISTS DON’T WANT TO DISCUSS by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Apr. 23, 2017) — April 22 was Earth Day, the March for Science and Lenin’s birthday (which many say is appropriate, since environmentalism is now green on the outside and red, anti-free enterprise on the inside). April 29 […]
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Solar Ovens and Sustained Poverty for Africa
AFRICAN FAMILIES AND HOSPITALS CANNOT RELY ON LIMITED SOLAR POWER, INSTEAD OF ELECTRICITY by Steven Lyazi, ©2017 (Apr. 22, 2017) — Solar technology in Africa, including my country of Uganda, would bring good news to millions of people who today must use firewood, charcoal and dung for cooking. Millions of Africans die from lung infections […]
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The World Needs More Energy!
POOR COUNTRIES HAVE A RIGHT TO USE FOSSIL FUELS AND WILL NO LONGER LET ANYONE STOP US by Steven Lyazi, ©2016 (Dec. 2, 2016) — Our planet is blessed with abundant resources that can generate enormous energy, provide raw materials for wondrous technologies, and build modern homes, roads and other structures – to support every man, […]
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When Will Africa Get Healthy and Prosperous?
WHEN WILL ITS LEADERS FOCUS ON VITAL ISSUES AFFECTING ITS PEOPLE, INSTEAD OF LINING THEIR POCKETS? by Steven Lyazi, ©2016 (Jul. 14, 2016) — Africa is still battling “transitional periods,” from slavery and colonialism, to neocolonialism and eco-imperialism. Its wars, diseases and suffering will never end until we stop having greedy leaders who only care about […]