In this blog I write about world affairs, presenting a view of the world free from NATO propaganda.
Peace Anthropology and Development Anthropology and History are the tools with which I analyze international affairs, as part of a world-wide web of people working for peace through Transcend, UNIDIR and other agencies. Terrorism? This is largely political propaganda: my EPES Mandala Consulting group specialized in “terrorism” and far more people die each year from road accidents or from the flu, than from terror attacks. A lot of news is fear-mongering and most comes from a small number of corporate and government sources. Investigative journalists are a threatened species.
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
War is never a win: both sides always lose.
Associated Press (AP) reported May 17th that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine, South Africa’s president said Tuesday.
Read MoreKeeping the peace is not what turns on military leaders. American generals have new weapons they are longing to try out on the battlefield. You should not be giving these people a platform, Mr Kristof. You should be talking to the Peace Makers, and providing a platform to people who seek to end the war.
Read MoreCLIMATE CHANGE and MIGRATIONS THREATEN PEACE
Climate change is now officially a major security threat, according to the White House, the State Department, the Coordinator of National Security and the Pentagon. Of course it is. How clever of them. The rest of us had worked that out around twenty or thirty years ago.
Read MoreA tale about obtaining a visa and traveling in Nigeria.
Read MoreTHE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF HUMANITY
WHERE DID GOD CREATE MAN, IF NOT IN AFRICA?
God created Man in East Africa, in the Great Rift Valley. From there men moved down the Nile. Around two million years ago, some people migrated out of Africa into what is now Arabia, while others wandered with their livestock across the western grasslands where they found the Niger River. We need to remember that the Sahara has only been desert for around three thousand years.
Read MoreThis book wrestles with fundamental questions of practical disarmament and peace building in Sierra Leone. Although they were written prior to the May-June 2000 upsurge of violence in Freetown that led to the arrest of Foday Sankoh, these incidents underline the relevance of the authors' analyses.
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