Alfred de Zayas Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Alfred de Zayas

We need good faith and golden bridges – not only bridges to allow adversaries to retreat without losing too much face, as Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu proposed 25 hundred years ago in The Art of War, but negotiation bridges for both parties to advance across.

Alfred de Zayas

Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hadrian, Attila, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Suleiman, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Andrew Jackson, Queen Victoria, Hitler, Lyndon Johnson, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush wanted war.

Alfred de Zayas

Back in 1992 the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama published a trash book that became a bestseller, lionized by the mainstream media -- "The End of History and the Last Man".  Breathtaking solipsism.

Alfred de Zayas

Everyone should read Prof. Nils Melzer's book "The Trial of Julian Assange" and the reports of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention condemning the persecution of Assange.  Once again the UK flouts the UN.

Alfred de Zayas

The US would be well advised to investigate the centuries of US genocide against the indigenous peoples of North America (Prof. David Stannard, American Holocaust, Oxford) and the obligation to make reparation to the survivors.

Alfred de Zayas

Neither "Make America Great Again" nor "Build Back Better" are good slogans. Best is to revive Eleanor Roosevelt's legacy and a commitment to the spirituality of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - without politicization thereof.

Alfred de Zayas

We in the US seem to have forgotten the words of Martin Luther King Jr. in his book "Why we can't wait". It bears repeating "Our nation was born in genocide" (p. 120). MLK was referring to the genocide agaisnt the Algonquin, Iroquois, Crees, Cherokees, Mohawks, Sioux, etc.

Alfred de Zayas

politicians who want to prolong the Ukraine war should reread Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Wilfred Owen's Anthem for doomed youth

Alfred de Zayas

George Orwell illustrates the “culture of fear” in 1984 . Winston’s reluctance to speak against the party can be explained in 21st century language as fear of “cancel culture”.

Alfred de Zayas

Our politicians are starved of love. As Alan Paton wrote in Cry, the Beloved Country "...there is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love; because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power."