Western Hegemony and Paper Tigers
Paper tiger: Noun, something, such as an enemy or foreign country that seems very strong and dangerous but is really weak and not harmful — Cambridge Dictionary. The 2020s will be …
To the political cynics – you cannot have your cake and eat it
The idiom “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” means that a person cannot simultaneously possess an item and consume it. Metaphorically speaking, it means that a person cannot enjoy the …
Ukraine Is Different!
“When elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.” — African proverb. There has never been a truer word, and lest we are inclined to forget, the recent events in Ukraine …
Western Hypocrisy And The Ukraine War
The Russian war in Ukraine is illegal, of that there can be no doubt. There was no UN Security Council mandate, no resolution brought to the toothless General Assembly to even …
Darnella Frazier – Person of the Year 2020
TIME Magazine’s selection of President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris for Persons of the Year was quite understandable. But it missed the mark. Much as those two people represent the …
Lord! What Of The Fly?
Satirical Corner A just concluded UN Report has expressed concerns about the United States’ “seemingly reckless abandonment of multilateralism – representing the alliance partnership developed after the 2nd World War – …
Show me your revolution
A revolution is not a dinner party. Words to that effect were spoken by one of the 20th century’s greatest revolutionaries, Mao, and they are as relevant today as they were …
Now is our time to leap history’s hurdles
The curfew starting at 3:00 pm over the Easter weekend brought a time of quiet; time to think above the usual hustle and bustle; above the needless blowing of horns by …
In This Era of Chaos
In the beginning there was formless matter called chaos. The Bible and other accounts suggest that God made matter or form out of that Chaos and that is the start of …