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A flimflam impeachment
What did Dilma Rousseff do to warrant impeachment? According to her opponents, she falsified the accounts to exaggerate the health of the economy, a...
The lessons from the elections and the way forward for the ANC and the South Africa
The municipality elections were held in South Africa on August 3 2016. The African National Congress (ANC) which had emerged from the post-apartheid regime...
Can Trump Win?
In July, the Caine Prize for African Writing was awarded to Lidudumalingani Mgombothi. The 10,000 pounds sterling award recognizes African writers for short stories...
The (in)compatibility of Islam and Democracy
The effects of the Skyes-Picot Agreement are still being felt today. It is true that the modern Middle East is a house built by...
The Battle of Weapons Ends as the Battle of Ideas Begins
The world’s longest continuous conflict, between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (in Spanish – Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de...
The Devolution Model for Peace in Kashmir
While there may be no real evidence of a historical Moses (for the Egyptians were obsessive about recording significant events, as an exodus of...
Kashmir-A Million Pellets for a Million Stones
The other day my friend while discussing Kashmir’s worsening situation literally rebuked me for writing yet another opinion on Kashmir’s current uprising and prevailing...
Lab Rats of Pokhran Tests
Exactly four decades ago, India conducted its first nuclear test in Pokhran. Who in the world -- wherever that is -- could care less...
Hope for Resolving the Water Conflict in the Middle East
The availability of fresh water has direct impact on food and energy production, development of industry, and human survival. Fresh water resources are often...
The Surreptitious Reincarnation of COINTELPRO with the COPS Gang-Stalking Program
In 1975 Senator Frank Church convened a joint senatorial/congressional inquiry into the egregious human rights and civil liberties violations of the Central Intelligence Agency...