Friday, June 8, 2012

CNN’s Hosts: Hidden Agendas

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Hitting record-low ratings among total viewers and in the 25-54 age demographic, CNN had its overall lowest-rated month in April 2012 since ...
Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Pressuring E.U. States: The Debt Crisis as Leverage

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By mid 2012, the verdict was in on the German-led recipe for restoring states overwhelmed by public- or private-sector debt: Austerity is co...
Sunday, June 3, 2012

The Wisconsin Recall Election: A Predictor of the U.S. Presidential Election?

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According to Paul Abowd of the Center for Public Integrity in 2012, the election to fill the governor’s office in the wake of Scott Walker’s...

Mubarak Convicted in Egypt: A Precedent for Human Rights?

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On June 2, 2012, an Egyptian court sentenced former President Hosni Mubarak to life in prison for being an accomplice in the killing of unar...
Friday, June 1, 2012

European Central Bank to E.U. Leaders: Vision Is Needed

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Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, warned a committee of the E.U.'s parliament at the end of May 2012 that the struct...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Former Liberian President Gets 50 Years for War Crimes

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In the 50 year sentence handed to  former Liberian president Charles Taylor by the Special Court for Sierra Leone meeting at the Hague on ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

India’s Business Environment: Beyond Corruption

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In spite of expected growth of 6 or 7 percent for 2012, the economy of India was facing a pessimistic outlook at the time. The underlying ca...

No State Left Behind: American Education Eclipsing Federalism

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Facing a federal requirement that every student be proficient in math and English by 2014, the member-states in the U.S. rushed to apply for...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

U.S. “Foreign Aid” Enabling Pakistani Betrayal

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Officials speaking on behalf of Pakistan’s government claimed that Pakistani officials did not know that Osama bin Laden had been living i...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Eurobonds for Stimulus Spending

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Meeting on May 23, 2012, the E.U.’s European Council failed to come up with a plan to offset the recessionary aspect of Greece’s budget cu...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Facebook’s IPO: Morgan Stanley’s Conflict of Interest

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Morgan Stanley’s underwriting of Facebook’s IPO has been thought by some of the bank’s rivals to be incompetently managed.  According to t...

Wealth and Happiness American-Style

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released an up-dated version of its Better Life Index in May 2012. The U.S. rank...
Monday, May 21, 2012

The Huffington Post Gilds the Lily: Facebook’s IPO Plummets?

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On the day of its IPO, Facebook issued at $38 and went to a high of $45 before returning to near its issue price (closing at $38.23). On th...

"Real Change" Belied: Lobbyists in Obama's White House

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Visitor logs for January 17, 2012 show that the lobbying industry that Obama had vowed to constrain was nonetheless a regular presence at ...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

Unions and States at a G-8 Meeting

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At the G-8 summit at Camp David in May 2012, E.U. and U.S. leaders met with the leaders of four E.U. states (Italy, Germany, France and B...