News from Rabat about the recent Moroccan elections paints a positive outcome for the nation’s Islamist party which is believed to have benefitted greatly from its participation in the Arab Spring earlier this year. Islamist parties have tended to fare well in the public’s view given their opposition to many of the region’s long-standing dictators. […]
Read MoreThe Islamic Republic of Iran’s parliament voted to remove the British ambassador to Iran as well as downgrade the republic’s economic ties to the U.K. The legislation needs approval from the Guardian Council before it can become law but this is not expected to be a hindrance to its final passage. These actions come after […]
Read MoreSouth Korea’s staging of wargames exercises on Yeonpyeong Island one year after the North’s artillery bombardment of the island has provoked the belligerent hermit state to issue a threat of a “sea of fire” upon the South if it does not cease its provocative exercises immediately. The attack on Yeonpyeong Island over one year ago […]
Read MoreSalvatore Montagna, rumored acting boss of the New York Bonanno family, was found dead on Ile aux Tresors on the Assomption River near Charlemagne, a suburb outside of the city of Montreal. He died from a gunshot wound. There are witness reports of a man jumping into the river and it is believed this man […]
Read MoreOpen Democracy’s Kirsty Hughes argues that the financial crisis with the euro has drawn into sharp focus the need for the United Kingdom to determine its future relationship with regard to the continent else it faces marginalization and impotency in future continental affairs. Kirsty Hughes bemoans U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s lack of real involvement […]
Read MoreGermany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has repeated her nation’s rejection of a common euro bond market as a solution to the financial crisis gripping the euro zone following a failed bond auction on the part of Germany to raise money for the joint effort to save the common market currency. The German focus has remained on […]
Read MoreSimon Winder of the United Kingdom’s The Telegraph argues that the recent events in the euro zone and the threat of imminent collapse without German intervention has placed the country in the position as an emergent, yet reluctant, superpower. Does Germany’s preeminence in the European Union qualify it for such lofty status? Simon Winder argues that […]
Read MoreRichard Wilkinson has studied History at the London School of Economics and receives his Masters from both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Nottingham, his second being in “Socio-economic Factors in Mortality Differentials.” Along with Kate Pickett he founded the Equality Trust, an organization that attempts to explain the social benefits of a […]
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