Rethinking the war on terror
I don’t have anything to offer in terms of advice on how to combat terrorism. Heck, I don’t even know who to call a terrorist. Is it someone who resists…
I don’t have anything to offer in terms of advice on how to combat terrorism. Heck, I don’t even know who to call a terrorist. Is it someone who resists…
As the world has by now been made painfully aware, Donald Trump’s preeminent goal as president of the US is to ‘make America great again’.But for many students – not…
There has been a great deal of sabre-rattling after North Korea’s hydrogen bomb test. The first reaction, with an aggressive rhetoric, came from US President Trump. The North Koreans are…
The existence of nuclear weapons is an ugly symbol of the violent consciousness that plagues humanity. Despite tremendous technological advancements, developments in health care and wonders of creative expression, little…
Two psychologists conducted the Robbers Cave experiment to investigate conflicts within groups. They divided 22 boys a group of 12-year-olds who belonged to a similar socioeconomic background but were completely…
The tragic war that has torn Syria apart over the last five years has created enormous suffering in modern times. Not enough has been said about the war by the…
Warmongers in Pakistan and India have been strong from day one, missing no opportunity to hurl abuses at one another and threatening to annihilate each other. They are adroit at…
Last week US President Barack Obama was in Hiroshima where the US - the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons - dropped an atomic bomb 71 years earlier,…
The death of Fidel Castro, for those of us living in the belly of the beast, has meant being forced to endure non-stop lies and hypocrisy from the mass media…
Next week, the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) – which regulates civilian nuclear cooperation and tries to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, – will take up requests for membership by India and…