lukebrown

a regular writer and co-founder of Polo's Bastards Adventure Travel.

Book Review: “Caucasus” by Nicholas Griffin

(Review – 240 pages) Reviewer – Luke Brown “Mountain Men and Holy Wars” Ominously, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, in his book The Grand Chessboard, stated that, geopolitically, there is no more important area in the world than the Caucasus. His reasons, as cited in Nicholas Griffin’s fascinating “Caucasus,”…

North Korea: Roll over Kim Il Sung

One wonders how advocates for centrally planned economies still gain a voice. The concept that a relative few on a committee of sorts should be given the power to effectively manage a country’s economy is seen by many as a good thing. The justification for this point of view is largely an emotional one, often…

Peace in Sri Lanka?

Founded in the 1970s and commencing their armed struggle for an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka in 1983, against the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have wrought havoc upon this small island off the coast of India, for the last two decades. A brutal…

Press Freedom in Africa

It is fairly well known that the last couple of years in Zimbabwe have seen an increasingly harsh crackdown on journalists and newspapers, local and foreign, critical of President Mugabe’s brutal and desperate attempts to remain in power. According to Reporters sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders – RSF), an organisation dedicated to protecting the free…