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What Bush wanted to do and what he did
Saberi Roy - 5/23/2007
Almost anyone will agree that the Iraq war went horribly wrong. What did we get from it, other than Saddam’s head? Bloodshed and more bloodshed, 30 killed, 80 killed, 100 killed…. Is this what President George W. Bush wanted or anyone wanted? The excuse given is that no one anticipated that the coun...
Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Laureate and Political Prisoner in Burma
Saberi Roy - 5/27/2007
The human rights situation in Burma (Myanmar) is appalling. Everyone knows that but is anyone doing anything? The Tatmadaw or as the Burmese army is called has been accused of serious human rights violations including rape of village girls, use of child and forced labor and oppression of the ethnic ...
An Analysis of Conflicts Around The World
Saberi Roy - 6/1/2007
If we try to provide an analysis of conflicts around the world, two patterns emerge. One relates to ethnicity, and the other relates to religion. Religion still forms the basis of major conflicts worldwide as in Israel-Palestine, although in case of India-Pakistan and Russia-Chechnya, the religious ...
Assessing the UN’s Policies and Approaches
Saberi Roy - 6/14/2007
Since replacing the League of Nations in 1945 and drawing up a United Nations Charter, the UN may have attained some goals but has obviously fallen short of expectations especially in areas of global peace and security. We can provide an account of what the UN could or should have done and what it h...
Knighthood For Rushdie: The Need For Social Change
Saberi Roy - 6/28/2007
Salman Rushdie’s contribution to literature has been recognized once again with the British honor of Knighthood. The recognition is not just of literary contribution but also of a bold spirit and freedom of speech. In the literary world, Salman Rushdie is quite a phenomenon because it was the publ...
Islam, Islamic Fundamentalism and Islamic Terrorism
Saberi Roy - 7/12/2007
Islam has become a huge question mark in recent sociopolitical debates. Is Islam a religion of peace or a religion of war? Does Islam promote hatred and all forms of perversion? Is it a religion that justifies terrorism? Is Islam inherently weak and will it bring its own downfall? There is no doubt ...
Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi Detained For Yet Another Year
Saberi Roy - 7/27/2007
On May 25, 2007 Burma’s military government extended Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention for another year making it the fifth consecutive year since she was placed under house arrest in 2003. Suu Kyi’s sweeping political victory in 1990 was considered as a major ‘threat’ to the military government and Suu ...
Middle East Peace: What Can Tony Blair Do?
Saberi Roy - 7/29/2007
One of the questions that could bother everyone is that what will analysts and world leaders do if the Israel-Palestine conflict ever gets resolved? It’s possible that this worry is unfounded as the mid-east problem will not be resolved completely in the immediate future but will hopefully start dwi...
Will the UN resolution on Darfur make any difference?
Saberi Roy - 8/12/2007
Finally, the UN Security Council has authorized 26,000 troops and police to protect civilians in Darfur and the peacekeepers are also allowed to use force to protect the civilians and aid workers. But considering the fact that 200,000 civilians have died in the region in the last four years and 2.5 ...
Religion, Science and Social Progress
Saberi Roy - 9/6/2007
Social progress in modern society seems to be completely based on two platforms – science and technological advancement which includes everything from our sense of gravity to the internet to space travel; and religion which has largely shaped modern political and social systems and formed a broader ...
Understanding everyday concepts – Space and Time
Saberi Roy - 9/16/2007
The nature of space and time has been controversial since the Greek philosophical traditions or even earlier in the eastern mystical tradition. Whereas the Eastern mystics considered space as an immutable platform of the universe in which things ‘arise’, the Greeks including Plato and Aristotle used...
Musharraf’s Million Woes
Saberi Roy - 9/20/2007
Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf seems to be facing too many pressures even though there are speculations that he will relinquish his army post to become a more acceptable civilian president. But does this assurance help in improving Musharraf’s image? And will the people of Pakistan stil...
Geography of Assassination and Politics of Death
Saberi Roy - 1/21/2008
Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has once again highlighted the spectre of death that accompanies every step of the political roadmap. A political leader stands on flimsy grounds of existence, his survival merely a matter of fate. From Julius Caesar to Gandhi, political leaders seem to be born with de...
Corruption and Culture - Part I
Saberi Roy - 2/26/2008
Corruption is not just the abuse of power for personal gain but also personal gain at the expense of others so it has moral, ethical, social, economic, political and broader geographical impact. Although some form of corruption has always existed in human society, the practice or culture of corrupti...
Corruption and Culture – Part 2
Saberi Roy - 3/3/2008
The term culture as we understand would refer to our social and moral systems, as well as all forms of human activity that are carried through generations comprising the gamut of human beliefs, values, arts, religions, languages and behavior. Culture is the product of civilization, a way of life and...
A Closer look at the Worldwide Nuclear Weapons Program and Security Threats
Saberi Roy - 3/31/2008
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) has provided a historical overview of the countries that already have or seek to have nuclear weapons. The countries noted are the five nuclear weapons states – United States, Russia (after former USSR), United Kingdom, France, and China. O...
China’s Troubled Olympics
Saberi Roy - 4/29/2008
China finds itself in a diplomatically and politically uncomfortable situation yet again with the Tibet unrest and needs to come out with a solution to its problems at least before the Beijing Olympics, but considering its political directions, that is most unlikely to happen. At the moment all solu...
The Problems and Prospects in Africa
Saberi Roy - 7/29/2008
The African nations remain the most troubled in the world, politically, socially, economically with many of the least developed nations being in Africa. Some of these poorest countries of the world are in Africa and many remain perpetually paralyzed with problems of starvation and poverty, HIV and w...
Analyzing the Strategies of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Saberi Roy - 12/15/2008
The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed 190 people on November 26-28, 2008 highlight yet another strategy that a little known terrorist group seems to have used to inflict chaos in a big urban establishment. The Deccan Mujahideen had claimed responsibility for the attacks although the fin...
Obama’s Policy directions for the Middle East crisis
Saberi Roy - 1/17/2009
As the world waits for the grand inauguration on January 20th, Obama will have to introduce himself to the world as the US President with more solutions and more promises. Although he has been focusing on the financial crisis and terrorism and there are too many expectations now that the economic pl...
The Show and Sham Trials of our Times
Saberi Roy - 9/1/2009
The recent political trials in Iran and Burma have raised several questions on the motives of these trials. There could be several levels of analysis, and similarities and differences could be drawn between the trials of political prisoners in Iran and the political prisoners in Burma.
Consi...
Nobel Obama – a bit too early?
Saberi Roy - 10/10/2009
The Nobel Committee for once has got it wrong, at least in terms of timing. The Nobel Peace Prize to Obama displays the bankruptcy of the Nobel Committee’s decision-making process as it seems the Committee has been too eager to give away a prize ...
Are the Terrorists Homeward Bound?
Saberi Roy - 11/20/2009
Osama Bin Laden’s terror group Al-Qaeda and several other Al-Qaeda clones seemed to have changed their strategy. It’s not too clear whether Osama is still alive and whether Al-Qaeda is still continuing with its agenda of bombing people, although terrorism in its various forms and with the Al-Qae...
New Twists in Burmese Politics
Saberi Roy - 4/2/2010
There are many new twists in the tale of Aung San Suu Kyi’s eternal house arrest in Burma. The Burmese leader has been imprisoned for more than 10 years continuously and more than 14 years during the last 20 years and it was widely expected that she will find ways to participate in the next Burmese ...
Burmese General Elections – Another Sham?
Saberi Roy - 7/10/2010
Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial for allowing an American into her house during the period of detention was simply an excuse to prevent her and her party from participating in the forthcoming elections in Burma. The Burmese government seems to be considerably determined not to allow Suu Kyi to participate i...
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