by Keith K C Hui | Apr 2, 2015 | Democracy & Governance, Redev
By the time Putin has accomplished what Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and China’s Deng Xiaoping did — setting up an orderly political succession system for nourishing authoritarian governance — the West has to re-calculate how they could cope with Russia and China...
by John Feffer | Mar 31, 2015 | Redev, War & Peace
Cross-posted from JohnFeffer.com. It’s often said that anti-Semitism continues to exist in Poland even in the absence of a large Jewish community. The recent Polish film Aftermath , about a farmer who uncovers the terrible truth about his village’s treatment of its...
by Peter Certo | Jan 22, 2015 | Environment, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
The Obama administration has never been one for grand State of the Union addresses. And once the commentariat has had its fun picking apart the subtle jabs, the applause lines, the body language, and whatever else, there’s often not a whole lot of oxygen left to...
by Sufyan bin Uzayr | Jan 6, 2015 | Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
As we enter the new year, the world economy, the energy sector to be more precise, lies in a dismal state. Back in June 2014, oil prices were at an all-time high. They have been slashed by nearly 40% since then. This rapid collapse of oil prices has had an adverse...
by Conn Hallinan | Dec 31, 2014 | Democracy & Governance, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev, War & Peace
Each year Conn Hallinan’s Dispatches From the Edge presents awards to individuals, companies and governments that make following the news a daily adventure. Here are the winners for 2014. The Pandora’s Box Award to Israel and the U.S. for launching the world’s...
