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Europe Begins to Run Short of Water
Prague - Half of the Czech Republic’s population could face water shortages because of climate change, a top climate change expert has warned. The country has become one of …
Dispirited Arabs Burning for Change
CAIRO, Jan 23, 2011 (IPS) - Upset over a policy that prevented him from buying subsidised food, Egyptian restaurant owner Abdou Abdel Moneim travelled to Cairo to find someone …
How Congress Helped Thwart Obama’s Plan to Close Guantanamo
Two years after the newly minted Obama administration moved to undo what had become one of the most controversial legacies of the George W. Bush presidency by ordering the …
Why the Kings of Bhutan Ride Bicycles
Bhutan has pioneered the use of Gross National Happiness (GNH) as a measure of progress, instead of the more commonly used GNP. GNH measures not only economic activity, but …
The Case for Controlling Capital Outflows
Emerging countries, and even some low-income ones, are being flooded by short-term capital flows which they do not need; much of this money originates via the carry trade from …
Let’s Not “Reform” Public Education
Recently, I had the honor of being dubbed a “vapid champion of the status quo” by American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident education scholar Frederick Hess, a widely published, renowned …
What Concealed Carry Law?
China-US Summit: Which Country Gained the Most?
Washington - Before leaving Washington for a public-diplomacy tour in Chicago Friday, Chinese President Hu Jintao called for a “win-win” relationship between the United States and China. While it …
Here’s One for the Birthers: Is GE’s Jeffrey Immelt Really an American?
If President Barack Obama had announced this week that he was appointing Japan’s Takanobu Ito, president and CEO of Honda, to head his new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, …
An American Suicide Terrorist
The shooter of Congresswoman Giffords acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodbye” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of …