Monthly Archives: October 2011

The past week was another very eventful one. It is always a tough task picking what should pass as top news. Here are some of the news items that would appear to have impacted on our world World population increase The world population which was 5 billion in July 1987 clocked (or was announced...
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We will aspire to establish a reason for our quest.  In a media world where sound bites are king and he who out-shouts his opponent wins, why waste our time?  The answer is that although political socialization starts at the earliest stages of our development, we are not doomed to carry our biases to...
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Foremost on the minds of most Americans is the state of the economy and the budget deficit; with a mandated “super committee” expected to cut expenditures by more than 1 trillion dollars above current cuts. Decisions by congress will have reaching impact for years, if not for decades to come. As US domestic issues take...
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During the period from its inception from 1999 the Eurozone, in common with the non-Eurozone members of the EU, operated in the relatively benign global economic conditions which prevailed until the global financial crash of 2007/8. Initially, even at the high point of the global financial crisis, the Eurozone appeared to be essentially unchallenged....
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The last week was an eventful one – full of memorable activities. Space will allow us to highlight just four of them.  Israel prisoners deal The week started on a promising note. Israel and Palestine, or more precisely Gaza, agreed to prisoners’ exchange. Gilad Shalit, a young Israeli who had spent the last five...
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China has what Africa needs – Money. It has a lot of it too. Africa has what China needs – natural resources, raw materials and growing markets. It has a lot of it too. China does business without asking questions in a dark continent where people generally do not like being asked questions. ooooOOOOoooo...
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There is an adage that says – if you notice a member of your household gathering and cooking suspicious mushrooms for his dinner, you will be doing yourself a lot of good by warning such a person.  If you fail to, when the troubles start at night, even you that did not eat out...
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2011 Nobel Prize list is sending one clear message to the world. That message is that it is modernizing. It is a very difficult balancing act to award high-profile prizes in a politically and economically volatile and sensitive world without making some people happy and others getting very critical. In the past, the Nobel...
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Those who are new to this game might wonder why the Israeli government announced the authorisation of a plan to build 1100 new housing units on the occupied East Jerusalem at the time when the eyes of the world seem to be focused on the Israeli-Palestinian issue. They might find themselves asking the question...
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It is no news that the Syrian government has committed lots of atrocities against its own people seeking democratic change in their country. It is no news that the acts of repression and denial of basic rights to the people of Syria continues daily. News time these days is shared between bad news of...
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