Remember all the fuss last May over the arrest of the former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual misconduct and possibly rape in New York? You…
A couple of weeks ago, Thomas Friedman wrote in his column that Vladimir Putin’s error in Russia was disrespecting the electorate. He just assumed that he could swap jobs with…
There is a simple reason I have avoided stories out of the European economic crisis – I seriously do not understand most of it. As far as I can figure…
Heard of motor-voter-registration? Well, Russia was subjected to motor-voter-protests this weekend. Thousands of Russian, with their cars trailing white ribbons or festooned with white balloons, took to the streets…
There are some stories which, though very serious, lead to uncontrollable bouts of the giggles. This is such a story….. When the recession hit Europe, the effects were devastating. Too…
It had to happen eventually. One of the beleaguered European nations had to realize that austerity and budget cutting and trickle-down economics were not the way to fight this lingering…
First there was the Migration Advisory Committee report that claimed that for every 100 non-European immigrants who entered the United Kingdom, there were 23 fewer job for the natives.…
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