Tibetan Struggle

Ngaba, a town on the eastern part of the Tibetan plateau, witnessed a Buddhist Monk dousing himself in gasoline and set himself on fire, after calling out for the return of Dalai Lama from exile in India. Since then 156 Tibetans have self- immolated. While some have wrapped themselves in quilts and wire others drank…

De-mining of War zones

C Conway, a former British Army officer, now working for the HALO trust,  a mine-clearing charity, details about the working of mines and explosives and how to deploy them when defending a fortified position. Conway displays his real life experience de-mining war zones to excellent use, as the narrative goes from Assad’s dungeons in Syria…

Fanatic Hysteria

According to Mishra the West gave the world colonialism, destruction and slavery as half a millennium of dominance is now closing and is sinking under the weight of its greed and hypocrisy. Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding…

Power loss compounded by problems of succession

America’s most iconic corporation General Electric suffered a swift and sudden fall from grace for top managers. GE’s reputation with investors rested on the preternaturally smooth earnings growth, buttressed by the financial operations of GE Capital, which Welch had expanded.  Welch’s tough managerial approach, including ruthless pruning of underperformers  earned him the nickname he hated…

Political Warfare by disinformation

Thomas Rid,  a German  born political scientist who is now professor at the John Hopkins, a renowned expert on technology and national security traces the revelatory and dramatic history of misinformation, reveals the rise of secret deception operations from the interwar period to contemporary internet troll farms. “We live in a age of disinformation –…

In pursit of war time abusers

In May Octogenarian Rawandan businessman  Felicien Kabuga was arrested in Paris after 25-year of manhunt, he is finally in custody accused of bankrolling the worsyty atrocities since the Khmer Rouge: the Rwandan genocide. Melvern as a journalist encountered several leading genocides in Rwanda in the terrible summer of 1994 when  800, 000 people were slaughtered…

Innovation  game changers amid pandemic

  Matt Ridley, reveals the vital ingredients for success by chronicling the history of innovation and how we need to change our thinking. We experience dramatic improvements  in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society From Britain to Brazil, world economy is choking in first gear as we indefinitely await a vaccine, having…

Interventionist and isolationist shaped US relations with allies and adversaries

Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged form America’s encounters with the world: the importance of North America, the special roles trading, transnational and technological relation play in defining ties with others, changing attitudes toward alliances and ways of ordering connections among states the need for public support, especially through Congress and the belief that…

Focus on Racism

Real life is a deeply affecting tale about the emotional cost of reckoning with the desire and overcoming pain including nuanced, precise account of micro-aggressions, abuse, racism, homophobia, trauma, grief and alienation. Taylor wielding a scalpel-like prose, explaining human behaviours along with Wallace’s petri-dish worms under the microscope. There is a precision in the details…