Domestic rebellion in Africa: Between intelligence failures and the failure of governance

November 2010

  Political rebellion has remained a major staple of Africa’s political economy. The rebellion is multifaceted and multifarious. Consequently, several explanations are competing for attention in the literatures. This paper examines the upsurge of political rebellion in Africa in the recent time. It argues that the surge and spread of political rebellion in Africa is largely a function of the failure of...

Author(s): I. S. Ogundiya

Gender differences in anxiety among Pakistani survivors of suicide bomb blast

October 2010

  This research investigated gender differences in anxiety among Pakistani survivors of suicide bomb blast. The sample was composed of 150 adult residents of Islamabad. 75 participants were live-witnesses of the Marriott hotel suicide bomb blast and 75 participants did not witness it ï€ªBurns Anxiety Inventory (BAI, 1999) was individually administered to all the research participants after getting written...

Author(s):   Yasmin Nilofer Farooqi, Sidra Tariq and David D. Burns      

Wars and the current crisis in the American economy

October 2010

  The purpose of this paper is to explain clearly that the recent economic crisis in the U.S. economy is grounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq aimed at controlling world oil and the globe. These goals reflect the dominance of militarism, of oil corporations, and of the financiers represented by the Federal Reserve (Fed). These institutions represent the dominant triangle of the American higher-plane...

Author(s):   Adil H. Mouhammed