In perhaps his most famous anti-imperialist essay, To the Person Sitting in Darkness Mark Twain critiques the self-evident truth of American imperial policy in Africa, China and the Philippines:
"Privately and confidentially, it is merely an outsi...
The historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus is credited with the quotation, "They make a wilderness, and call it peace". Assuming that I'm not taking it out of context or using it incorrectly, that quotation often comes to mind when I think of US Preside...
With Reuters reporting a growing concern among Americans at US President Barack Obama's government spending, automobile industry bailout and other economic policies, set against the backdrop of former president George Bush taking a swipe at his succe...
Well, it wasn’t quite like blackballing Mother Teresa, but it came close. In the context of the free world, the Dalai Lama enjoys something approaching Gandhian status. He is a true icon of peace and of a people’s struggle to be free, with these ...
On May 28 last year, Washing Post columnist, Michael Gerson coined a phrase which is finding increasing resonance in the international corridors of power: “Whatever the reasons, South Africa increasingly requires a new foreign policy category: the ...
That Mugabe is highly qualified to join the ranks of the notorious and brutal “Mephisto Club”, there is no doubt. His buddies Stalin, Ceausescu and Sharon will certainly appreciate the arrival of fresh blood. Yet there exists many a brutal lifeti...
Hillary Clinton's statement to the senators at her confirmation hearing, required for appointment as the next Secretary of State in the Barack Obama presidency, gives a sneak preview at the direction that US foreign policy will take over the next fou...
One of the first images my diminutive kop conjured up, on hearing the words “thin film technology” was a DVD … of course, in the hands of someone like Professor Vivian Alberts of the University of Johannesburg (UJ), thin film technology -- base...
In my short time in South Africa, few elements of US foreign policy in Africa have raised as much ire or confusion among the people I talk to as the new US Africa Command (Africom).
Officially launched at the beginning of October, despite linger...
Do you have to brown skin, a Muslim moniker, a beard, and a passing or preferably detailed knowledge of the Koran in order to be angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the denial of statehood to Palestinians? Here in Britain, you could be f...
