Modern day slavery, otherwise known as Human Trafficking, holds some 27 million men, women and children by force (including the threat of force), fraud or coercion…it’s grip is only slightly weaker than that of the arms trade. The ‘human trade’ not only continues to fuel organized crime, and is often tided to it’s power house […]
President Obama hosts British PM Gordon Brown at the White House. Brown wants to engage President Obama in a ‘gobal new deal’ era of coordinated economic policy at next month’s G-20 Summit in London, stating: ‘Globalisation is not an option, it is a fact.’
In a move representative of Vice President Biden’s call to “press the reset button” on American-Russian relations, President Obama sent a letter to Russian President Medvedev seeking stronger cooperation on halting Iran’s nuclear program. The letter, hand-delivered in Moscow three weeks ago by top US officials, raises the possibility of stopping the deployment of a […]
Over the past week, two new polls have been released which paint an interesting picture of opinions and attitudes within the Muslim World. First, a New York Times poll asked Muslims all over the world whether they felt as if they were ‘thriving’, ‘struggling’, or ‘suffering’. Out of 14 countries (ten predominately Muslim nations and […]
“Already the world’s preeminent energy and trade interstate seaway, the Indian Ocean will matter even more as India and China enter into a dynamic great-power rivalry in these waters,” writes Robert Kaplan, a correspondent for The Atlantic and senior fellow at the Center for New American Security. Appearing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, […]
Charlie Rose interviews Fred Mishkin, Nouriel Roubini, et al. This is a concise — but informed — discussion of where we are, and where we need to go as far as the current American banking and financial crisis. The interview by Charlie Rose of Fred Mishkin (Columbia University), Nouriel Roubini (NYU), Mark Zandi (Moody’s) and others […]
One way for an aspiring power to avoid the hard work of building a formidable economic base upon which to base future military power is to acquire nuclear weapons. Although not easy, this constitutes a fairly cheap way to become a major regional, if not a global, power in spite of one’s pygmy status in […]
On Sunday, Chinese authorties reported that the Chang’e-1 space probe made a successful and planned crash landing on the Moon. This is the first time any Chinese spacecraft has touched the Moon. China’s Xinhua state-controlled news service explains that the Chang’e probes are part of an extended mission aimed at eventually sending recoverable and manned missions to the Moon. Xinhua reports:
Clifford Levy writes an incisive peice about the current Ukranian financial crisis in today’s New York Times. The Ukrain experience has close parallels to what’s happening in the U.S. and western Europe, but on a smaller stage. Could this be where we are headed..??
One of the historic strengths of the U.S. economy has been its flexibility. Dust bowl migrants relocated to Michigan for auto jobs in the thirties. Hiring and firing has been less fraught with regulation in the U.S. than in other countries. Labor mobility has helped buoy U.S. productivity growth in years past. Rapid adjustment could […]
http://www.worldpress.org/ World Press Review is an excellent aggregator of breaking news headlines and analysis from the often forgotten corners of the world. The paper covers the major industrialized Markets; but it does a much better job of reporting from the dusty, but relevant , corners of the world. Expect to see well written analysis from […]
All for multi-tasking and passing the boredom of standing in the grocery line, this new application from The Extraordinaries has gotten me excited about the new possibilities of volunteering. Smartphone software that allows someone to use micro amounts of spare time for social good. We deliver volunteer tasks on-demand directly to the phone like a […]
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