Rage is a funny thing in humans, it makes you forget the boundaries of civilised behaviour. You cannot define rage or even what constitutes civilised...
Last week I reviewed the recent book, titled 'Lies, Lies and More Lies' by Vivek (ISBN: 978-0-595-43549-4), which is a collection of articles aiming to shed...
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article240 9865.ece September 8, 2007 China's cyber army is preparing to march on America,...
The Muslim Brotherhood is a much mis-understood and under-estimated force in today's political climate across the globe. Like the various communist parties...
Imagine facing a situation where your darling child has been born and very soon was been diagnosed with an exceedingly rare illness (only sixty patients in the...
The 1857 War of Independence or Great Mutiny has been directly seared into the national psyches of many countries and impacted a great many more countries...
So here we have a country which was considered to be a colonial enterprise in the Middle East, hated with a vengeance, totally imperialistic, only interested...
If there is one target which gets policemen, counter terrorism strategists and tacticians, politicians and other assorted terrorism managers very nervous, it...
Recently, I had the privilege of attending an event, which had one of the highest concentrations of international relations intellectual horsepower that I have...
USA's counter terrorism effort in the Global War against Terror is frankly creating more terrorists than it is stopping. If the objective was to reduce the...
Prometheus was sentenced by Zeus to have his liver eaten by a giant eagle (think Garuda), while being chained to a rock. The liver would be eaten, then...
US Navy ships fired upon pirate boats off the coast of Africa and were engaged in a wide ranging sea battle over long distances. The pirate boats were sunk,...
Thursday, Dec. 06, 2007 * Enemies at The Firewall* By Simon Elegant/Beijing <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1692063,00.html> Tan Dailin lets...
Julius Caesar is very well known in the world, his history, his deeds and wars. The month July was named after him, but how many people know about the Caesar...
The House of Al Saud is built on land which is criss-crossed with tectonic fault lines which are almost constantly moving. And the al Saud way of handling...
Kosovo has declared independence on the 3rd Sunday of February, 2008 and the expectation is that it will be recognised by USA, UK and many other countries...
Once upon a time, when Muslims were restive, worried about having been left very far behind the West in terms of scientific, political, economic and ...
For those who have been living in the Outer Hebrides inside a cave for the past 10 years, this essay does not apply. For most of the other denizens of this...
I have already written about refugees <http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2004/07/home-is-where-heart-is.html> before but this time I want to look at what do the...
I am seeing articles about how marking positions to market is contributing to the recession and how it should be stopped or amended almost daily in the ...
Countries faced with terrorism are currently struggling with how to establish legal precedents, so that they can handle terrorists. Because there is no clear...
Islamophobia exists and is steadily getting worse. A phobia is a strong irrational or powerful fear and dislikes of something, in this case, the religion of...
The Islamist terror and subsequent Iraq War have let loose a huge debate around what is "Just War"? The Islamists claim that Just War is Jihad and it is...
Have you heard about the greatest generation? This is the generation which was born around the early part of the 20th century and fought in the Second World...
We see corruption generally as a third world problem and a problem which is primarily at the governmental level. But far too frequently, we ignore the role...
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