International Affairs

 Journalism According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Journalism is the collection, preparation and distribution of news and related commentary and feature materials through such prints and electronic media as newspapers, magazines, books, blogs, webcasts, podcasts, social media sites, and e-mails as well as radio, motion pictures and television. A lot of people have divergent opinions on the term journalism as some define it as story telling with purpose. According to an American Professor Glenn Mott who lectured at Tsinghua University in China, a student called Weijun is of the idea that "the media gives us opinions not facts. Since prejudices are unavoidable in the reports of news. So maybe there are neither truth nor facts, and Journalism is about making facts and selling opinions and hence truth influencing people". The thing is that there's no specific thing called Eastern or Western Styles of journalism rather there are people who basically are divided into two with ea...

Most people in one way or the other have at least experienced some form of discrimination or even to some extent injustice. Most of these amounts to Racism. Racism or in other words antagonism is the belief that groups of humans posseses different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of on group over the other. The word racism is also synonymous to prejudice. As history indicates, the popular use of the word is relatively recent. It gained a lot of grounds at the beginning of the 20th century when groups have began preaching and lecturing on the abolishing of the slave trade. In most western countries racism is the order of the day even though they always claim to stand against it. People of colour mostly from Africa, Asia and South  America are the main victims of racism. Most countries in the west have laws in place against racism but majority of their people don't really care. Some even go to the extent of calling co...

Who are they and what do they really stand for? Who they are. World super powers are countries known and recognized over the world as extremely powerful countries with the ability to determine the day to day running affairs and major economics of the world through their foreign policies. These are countries who constantly project their influence on the world stage in the news. These countries have Gross Domestic Products (GDPs) of over One Trillion Dollars each making their GDP per capita to exceed Ten Thousand US Dollars. Super powers are grouped into two; the post WWII super powers and those that emerged afterwards. This post would dwell more on the post WWII super powers. These are countries who gained their powers according to the Oppenheim's International Law, United Nations which states that " Permanent membership in the security council was granted to five states based on their importance in the aftermath of WWII". These five states or countries that got the perman...