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The dramatic increase in court-won elections worldwide in recent years is proving to be a pivotal issue in deciding who is and stays in power, and in this sense Al Franken and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have a lot in common…
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‘Green race’ must now be added to the notions of ’space race’ and ‘arms race’: global competition between nations and their associations for supremacy in environmentally sound technology. China, Japan and Korea will unite in a pledge to cooperate to become worldwide leaders in green tech next month, opening possibilities for other kinds of beneficial ‘races’ to come…
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Foreign police forces confronting teenage-like rebelliousness apparently makes for more advertizing revenue and moral posturing than starving babies, children and parents. With world news fixated on the Iranian protests more for their dramatic than political value, much too little attention is being paid to the announcement late last week that over one billion people worldwide are hungry. One billion, or a seventh of our species, more than ever previously recorded. One billion…
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If measuring corruption is the first step towards reducing it, then a comparative index of corruption is at least the next three, as the Corruption Perceptions Index makes clear. Why? Because assessing to what degree a government or country is corrupt, such as the Obama administration and the US more generally…
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Five major emerging economies are joining forces to create a coalition that may have no rival at present, historically or in the foreseeable future. Their acronym is BRIC, strongly suggesting an object that may soon smash the Western block’s cracked and cracking glass house called the global economy, for better or worse. Calling any other formal economic coalition– the EU, APEC, NAFTA, etc.– ever formed “small potatoes” would be an overstatement…
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With sharp right turns across Europe and Hezbollah safely losing in Lebanon, it surprises little that world news headlines only briefly blinked with two momentous events involving formerly vehement anti-communist faction now seeking them out. Below the surface, what China cementing economic ties with Japan and the Organization of American States welcoming Cuba means for now and the future may be very different than what appears to be the case on the surface…
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