Blog Posts on war and peace

Currently reading... by Books and Musings on Feb 8, 2012War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I've had this since July of last year, but I'm only on page 41!Don't get me wrong. I love reading classics, but I feel like I need to be mentally prepared every time I'm about to read this.I've decided to make this my le...

Middle East unrest intensifies with updates from Yemen, Bahrain and Syria by The News Around Us on Mar 24, 2011The unrest in the Middle East continues to intensify despite some developments. In Libya the bombardment of the Coalition forces continue on installations of Moammar Gadhafi. In Yemen, the embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh vowed to step down n...

Coalition Forces continues air strike in Libya amidst defiant Gadhafi by The News Around Us on Mar 24, 2011More airstrikes had been seen in Tripoli in Libya as the fourth day of the coalition forces assault continues. 110 missiles had hit Libya on the first day and to date it had destroyed several so called "military" targets including a mansi...

How did the Arab uprising started? Who is Mohammed Bouazizi? by The News Around Us on Mar 24, 2011It seems that the otherwise peaceful Arab world had suddenly became the site for an unprecedented uprising in more than a hundred years. What started the uprising and how did it started? Well, the reason for all the uprising is cause by one person...

"Doray: The Peacemaker" starts PeaceTech TV live shows by The News Around Us on Mar 16, 2011PeaceTech, a non-profit organization that builds peace among the world’s youth will starts their PeaceTech Web TV today with the first live web telecast scheduled on March 17 at 10:00am. "Doray: The Peacemaker" will be the first live pro...

Middle East and North African conflict spreads to Saudi Arabia as Libya gets more bloody by The News Around Us on Mar 9, 2011photo from CNN.com The violence and protest in the Middle East and North Africa continues with the protest spreading to the otherwise peaceful nation of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabian authorities reiterated a ban on protest sighting Sharia Law and exis...

International Community Launches "Libya: No-Fly Zone Campaign" by The News Around Us on Mar 9, 2011As thousands of people gets killed in Libya and as Moammar Gadhafi uses brute force to quell rebellion more than 700,000 people from around the world had already signed a campaign to convince the United Nations to impose a NO FLY ZONE IN LIBYA. &quo...

Taking People Power to the Next Level by The News Around Us on Feb 24, 2011“While the Middle East and Africa are using technology for protest, even revolution, the Philippines is using technology to bring the country back together”. In a mass demonstration of how technology can be a force for good, thousands in Mindan...

Manila and Iligan City Meet's Virtually Through PeaceTech's Mass Video Conference Series by The News Around Us on Feb 2, 2011Students from Manila and a city thousands of kilometers away, Iligan City talked with one another seamlessly as if they were talking face to face. This was made possible by the Mass Video Conference technology used by PeaceTech and funded by AusAID...

Philippines Featured in WikiLeaks.org by The News Around Us on Feb 2, 2011Latest documents of the famous website, WikiLeaks.org had mentioned the Philippines and a possible Uranium material capable of creating nuclear bombs found in the country. The said Uranium was found by some divers and was allegedly being sold in the...