The world’s central bankers meeting for an annual Federal Reserve summer symposiun retreat say tougher regulatory reforms and oversight necessary for a full recovery, and agree to keep coordinated interest rates low to help boost global economic recovery.
The election is Afghanistan is over and in an interesting twist, both candidates are claiming victory amid charges of ballot fraud. Before departing for his vacation, President Obama praised the election as a sign of progress while noting the important work yet to be done: President Obama hailed Afghanistan’s election as an “important step forward” […]
The other day a young woman handed me with what I initially thought was a flyer. She was collecting donations for Amnesty International. But it turned out that the flyer was a guide on conjugal violence – most typically for women being beaten in silence by their husbands or boyfriends. We have all heard the […]
It appears that for now, while some improvements are being made, women are still fighting for the hearts and minds of the Afghan people.
The only US Army Officer convicted for involvement in the 1968 “My Lai massacre” has publicly apologized for his role in the Vietnam War-era killings.
The United States should not join the International Criminal Court (ICC), as it “lacks prudent safeguards against political manipulation, possesses sweeping authority without accountability … and violates national sovereignty” says the Heritage Foundation, a conservative public policy research institute. The ICC was officially established in 2002 as a forum to prosecute serious international crimes–war crimes, […]
I really don’t watch much TV, especially during the day, however today I happened to be home, when a friend told me to tune into DR Phil. The episode was Dangerous Teen Trends, the episode had a number of stories, but one that stood out was the story of a 12 year-old girl who had […]
Here is an interesting roundup of critical commentary on the Mideast peace process from former U.S. statesmen by the Voice of America news service. The report was inspired by President Obama’s meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the Oval Office last Tuesday and contains excerpts of interviews showcased in a 20-minute film titled New […]
There is something else when you watch American military Humvees plow down unarmed refugees. Like in so many conflicts and wars, the remnants of disaster and chaos never simply disappear. They remain bred in the souls of those who have had to endure eight years of war – day in and day out. So that […]
Back in 2007, Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick wrote about “Chimerica” or the “symbiotic economic relationship” developing between China and the United States in International Finance. “Not only has plentiful Chinese and Asian labor increased global returns to capital; Chinese excess savings have also depressed US and global interest rates.” China did the saving and […]
America’s decline is a false prophecy. Writing in the latest issue of Foreign Affairs and yesterday’s International Herald Tribune, Josef Joffe, co-editor of Die Zeit and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, argues that even though it is fashionable again to speak of America’s fall and the rise of others, the United States will remain […]
For Pete’s sake, even the last US President, a man not highly praised for his environmentalism, said America was addicted to fossil fuels. If fossil fuels are an addiction, then Canadian tar sands oil are crack. Put it another way, using the same metaphor: the US causes the massive drug violence and corruption in Mexico […]
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