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Dubbed by many pundits as “The Most Stupid War in the World,” the Ukraine conflict is one that hardly anyone saw coming back in 2010. However, it is close to a decade old already. In this conflict in the evenly divided Ukraine, brinkmanship by the local players in the country, by the West that wants to drag Ukraine into its orbit, and by Russia that fears losing Ukraine and its security in the process, is the norm. At the same time, the world watches in a seemingly helpless manner as Ukraine gets torn apart at the seams. Most of the governments in the West blame Russia for instigating ...

En "Fuego y Lamentaciones", Janvier T. Chando ofrece a los lectores relatos sucintos de las vidas, los ideales y las muertes prematuras de las destacadas figuras políticas cuyos asesinatos conmocionaron a la sociedad estadounidense, desencadenaron transformaciones políticas internas y alteraron fundamentalmente la política exterior de los Estados Unidos de America, de modo que el país perdiera para siempre su inocencia. A lo largo de un siglo, las muertes a tiros de cuatro presidentes de los Estados Unidos (Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield y John F. Kennedy) y del ...

In pursuit of revenge, former French commando Rene Roccard embarks on a cause to assassinate underground leader Ruben Um that takes him from New York to Europe and Africa. Relentless on his heels is veteran American journalist Clement Coulther as they join a motley bunch in a journey of love and betrayal, fear and hope, damnation and salvation, war and death, redemption, and peace. Rene leads the bloody campaign by the Franco-Cameroonian army against the Ruben-inspired rebellion, a dirty war steals the innocence of bright-eyed Gavin by exposing the child to a world of power, glory, money, ...

No US. Presidential election has been as dramatic as the 2016 race for the White House. Mavericks rose to prominence from the primaries in both the Republican and Democratic camps, challenged the status quo, exposed the follies of the country's political establishment and vowed to bring a new dawn to America. These unorthodox candidates did so without seeking financial assistance from the groups that traditionally financed political candidates in the past elections. The Republican maverick Donald Trump won the nomination of the party he recently joined, against a long list of seventeen ...

In this brave and chilling account of the post-Soviet space, the author provides us with a fascinating insight into Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the other republics of the Soviet Union through the larger-than-life character of Boris Petrenkov who leads us by the hand through his world, his mind, and the characters he interacts with. This smooth and fascinating ride into a part of the world that people find mysterious comes with explosive revelations that take us through history from the times of Kievan Rus a millennia ago, to the Golden Horde of the Mongols, czarist Russia, the Soviet ...

In Fire and Lamentations, Janvier T. Chando offers readers succinct accounts of the lives, ideals, and untimely deaths of the towering political figures whose assassinations shocked American society, triggered domestic political transformations, and fundamentally altered America foreign policy, so that the United States of America lost its innocence forever. Spanning a century, the shooting deaths of four United States Presidents — Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James A. Garfield, and John F. Kennedy — and the country’s soul and the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. brought...

In EVEN HIS ENEMIES CRIED: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin of Israel, Janvier T. Chando provides the reader with a succinct and insightful account of Yitzhak Rabin that helps us understand his world, the turbulent region he was born in, the complexity of geopolitics and what leadership entails ― confidence, courage, compassion, inspiration, knowledge, understanding, integrity, fairness, motivation. The mind-blowing account takes us through Yitzhak Rabin's journey as a shy boy pushed by the exigencies of his time to become a soldier and play an outstanding role on the battlefields in ...

En este relato innovador, el autor lleva al lector por el pasillo de los acontecimientos y la historia innovadores hasta la realidad de que hoy es Ucrania, el conflicto de Ucrania, la Europa posterior a la Guerra Fría y el controvertido mundo unipolar liderado por Estados Unidos. La complejidad de Ucrania, su historia, su política y la guerra multifacética que el dividido pueblo ucraniano no anticipó hace dos décadas se vuelve fácil de entender, sentando las bases para una solución a lo que muchos expertos piensan que es un conflicto intratable. El autor lo logró con una perspicacia...

"The Ancestry Factor in American Elections" es una obra pionera que nos muestra el aspecto menos comentado de la composición demográfica estadounidense, que aunque complejo en sí mismo, proporciona una visión única de cómo se ganan y pierden las elecciones en los Estados Unidos de América. Descubrimos que este curioso aspecto de la ascendencia es algo en lo que los medios de comunicación, deliberada o inconscientemente, no se detienen, centrándose en cambio en las agendas económicas, políticas y sociales específicas de las fuerzas que están empeñadas en moldear la sociedad, el...

INCLUSO SUS ENEMIGOS LLORARON: El asesinato de Yitzhak Rabin de Israel, Janvier T. Chando proporciona al lector un relato sucinto y perspicaz de Yitzhak Rabin que nos ayuda a entender su mundo, la región turbulenta en la que nació, la complejidad de la geopolítica y lo que implica el liderazgo --- confianza, coraje, compasión, inspiración, conocimiento, comprensión, integridad, justicia, motivación. El alucinante relato nos lleva a través del viaje de Yitzhak Rabin como un niño tímido empujado por las exigencias de su tiempo para convertirse en soldado y desempeñar un papel ...

The 2016 Presidential election will be remembered for ages not only for producing the biggest upset in the history of American politics, but also for the colorfulness of the primaries of both the Democratic and the Republican parties. When Bernie Sanders, the little-known Independent senator from small state Vermont boldly stated that he was a Democratic Socialist, and then began his race for the White House as a Democratic Party candidate, hardly anyone took him seriously. After all, he was up against the entire Democratic Party machinery and their favored candidate Hillary Clinton. Many ...

In this succinct account, the author reveals the threads that weave the controversial legacy of the Egyptian military leader and head of state Anwar Al-Sadat, prying into his motivations that led him to war against Israel and that saw him shortly afterwards become an iconic leader for peace in the Middle East by stirring his country onto a path that not only began the transformation of Egypt into a modern state, but that equally alienated Egypt from the rest of the Arab world. The unequivocal nature of Janvier T. Chando’s account sheds a unique light into the legacy of one of Africa’s ...

In this insightful account of those who the Special Counsel Investigation under Robert Mueller subjected to an official inquiry over Russian interference in the 2016 US. Presidential election, and over alleged collusion between officials of Russia and members of the campaign team of Donald Trump, we are presented with developments involving the USA that polarized the country’s different socio-economic and political factions in the and plunged it into a political maze that it is yet to recover from. In an unequivocal manner, Janvier T. Chando presents a coherent account of the genesis, ...

Ningún continente ha experimentado la mitad de asesinatos políticos, golpes de estado, guerras internas y externas, disturbios civiles y trastornos económicos desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX que África. Sin embargo, casi ningún experto serio diría que las manos de las fuerzas extranjeras que están dispuestas a asegurar sus "supuestos intereses" en el continente o que quieren ganar nuevos intereses, no estaban en la mayoría de estos reveses. Que estas fuerzas externas hayan tenido éxito con la ayuda de los africanos con la disposición malvada o los africanos que ignoran su plan...

Esta primera parte del relato de los poderes hegemónicos que dieron forma al mundo occidental es una historia milenaria que involucra a la antigua Roma y la naturaleza de su mundo, que involucra los imperios contra los que luchó, las tierras y las personas que conquistó, las invasiones "bárbaras" que derrotado y no pudo detener, y la influencia que ejerció en Europa, África y el Medio Oriente, convirtiéndolo en el objetivo de poderosos no romanos decididos a controlarlo mientras aprecian su civilización, los atributos positivos que constituyen el núcleo del mundo occidental hoy ...

En este valiente y escalofriante relato del espacio postsoviético, el autor nos proporciona una visión fascinante de Rusia, Ucrania, Bielorrusia y las otras repúblicas de la Unión Soviética a través del personaje más grande que la vida de Boris Petrenkov que nos lleva de la mano a su mundo, su mente y los personajes con los que interactúa. Este viaje suave y fascinante a una parte del mundo que la gente encuentra misteriosa viene con revelaciones explosivas que nos llevan a través de la historia desde los tiempos de la Rus de Kiev hace un milenio, hasta la Horda de Oro de los ...

Cameroon is the only country in Africa where those who campaigned, fought and died for the country's freedom and independence from colonial rule have never made it to power, where the ideas and ideals of these union-nationalists are still being suppressed by the unpopular system the colonial master put in place in the country after defeating these civic-nationalists in a bloody war variously described as France’s genocidal war in Africa. This retarding French-imposed system keeps the country trapped in poverty, corruption, underdevelopment, dictatorship, despondence, and cynicism, thereby...

For a people that lost more than half a million lives in a liberation struggle for the independence and reunification of their country yet failed to shake off the oppressive external forces who allowed self-rule and reunification of British Cameroons and former French Cameroun but put their puppets in power in a so-called independent Cameroon, this country known as “Africa in Miniature” is an Orwellian reality. It is hard for a non-Cameroonian mind to imagine that there are tidy solutions or pithy fixes to the big challenges in overcoming the reactionary forces responsible for ...

When it comes to Cameroon, there seems to be an international conspiracy of silence regarding the destiny of this land variously described as "Africa in Miniature" or "The Microcosm of Africa". It is as if it truly embodies the haunted existence of Africa. When talking about dictators, the media giants apparently fail to mention the world's longest-serving non-royal head of state---Paul Biya of Cameroon, as if there is something to hide or as if there is something shameful about the Biya story and the anachronistic system that France and its geopolitical allies imposed on Cameroon by using ...

Esta sucinta narración nos lleva sin esfuerzo a través de un milenio y medio de la historia formativa de la tierra que está en el centro de la geopolítica actual. Como la primera parte de un impresionante relato que nos lleva de la mano a través de la historia fundamental de la tierra descrita como "La Tierra Santa", "La Tierra Prometida", Israel y Palestina, esta narración proporciona una visión única de los planes, intentados y aún no articulados, para resolver el conflicto entre dos pueblos o naciones con profundas conexiones con la tierra, pero que no viven allí en paz porque ...