Harare — AFRICAN revolutionaries now have to sleep with one eye open because the United States of America is not stopping at anything in its bid to establish Africom, a highly-equipped US army that will be permanently resident in Africa to oversee the country's imperialist interests.
CHRIS Hyman would make a perfect Whitehall mandarin. As chief executive of Serco, the support services group, he presides over a company running everything from trains, hospitals and schools to prisons and missile defence systems, on behalf of governments around the world.
PRESIDENT Bush and the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki signed an agreement Monday paving the way for the long-term occupation of the Middle Eastern country and its transformation into a semi-colonial protectorate of the US.
TWO interesting and closely related news items concerning U.S. involvement in Iraq were announced this week. Individually they cause one to shake one's head in wonder, but together they show that Congress and President Bush have far more closely related ideas on the future of that country than one might otherwise think.
WHEN a reader tipped me to a talk delivered by a slave owner in 1712, entitled "The Making of a Slave," I decided to compare past and present.
Past methods of enslavement were highly sophisticated, and closely resemble modern feminist social engineering.
REVOLUTION implies an extraordinary change. But the change is not always the antibiotic that kills the infection and treats the disease. Instead it may be the hypnotic that sedates, addicts and slowly poisons. For any colossal transformation to be valuable, it has to be for the better.
HIJAB is surely one of the major social issues in discussion these days particularly in the West. Is this issue merely an indicator of the growing feelings of hatred against Muslims after 9/11? Isit merely because the Hijab is believed by many to have become a symbol of Islamic revivalism and assertion of Muslim identity?
