Israel is set to lose its label as an emerging market and will officially become a developed market later this month. Israel has long been a leader in high-tech and military technologies, which is hard to fathom seeing that the country only began its major transformation over the last 60 years. Further, investors should still […]
The BNP has finally announced a plan for nation-wide protests. Beginning with a sit in on June 9 to protest controversial High Court Appointments, Begum Khaleda Zia will lead a day long strike on June 27, against what she believes to be the sitting governments ill-thought policies that sell Bangladesh and Bangladeshi sovereignty down the […]
Zainab Jeewanjee discusses Pakistan’s ban on facebook. She draws a parallel between the notion of a Red and Blue America, to two distinct Pakistan’s. According to Jeewanjee, a ban on Facebook demonstrates the governments failure to lead its Red and Blue population toward more religious sensitbility.
Two days ago an investigative NPR report proposed that the war on drugs favors the Siñaloa drug gang, headed by the infamous ‘Chapo’ Guzmán. Arrests of suspected Siñaloa members account for about 12% of all gang-related arrests since 2006, on par with other major syndicates. (The Gulf Cartel has suffered the brunt of arrests, 44%. However, when […]
The Wall Street Journal has a new page on its website devoted to Africa and regardless of what you think about the Journal’s editorial stances, its news side is excellent, and you should most definitely bookmark this page. It is a great resource for news, as good as or better than any other American newspaper’s […]
I generally agree with Haaretz columnist and Tel Aviv University Prof. Carlo Strenger, who supports democracy and freedoms for all individuals in Israel and the Palestinian territories, often opting to prioritize these values above and beyond any political motives aimed toward the peace process. And, in this vain, I agree one hundred percent with Strenger’s […]
Victory for the British Tories came with a price. Several of Cameron’s front bench candidates for ministerial positions learned this the hard way, when they were informed they missed out on a cabinet position, in order to make room for their Liberal Democratic colleagues. The skipped over MPs are not alone in feeling that the […]
That is the grim milestone of American deaths in Afghanistan since the war began in late 2001. Though it can be argued exactly what the real total may be (some say 970, while others over 1,060) the toll our American servicemen and women have given in this fight cannot. Sadly and tellingly, American deaths have […]
Everyone knows that the physicist turned human rights crusader Andrei Sakharov was a dissident, but what about oligarch turned oppositionist Khodorkovsky? Foreign Policy magazine seems to think so. Yet the article’s simplistic title (‘Khodorkovsky – the Billionaire Dissident’) obscures an admirable level of nuance achieved by Susan Glasser and Peter Baker, who write: The idea […]
Economic growth is enormously difficult to measure, never mind to predict, but signs point to economic growth rates of 4.2% to 4.8% across Africa in the next year. (As a sign of how inexact all of this is, the stories linked above vary in their assessments of the last year’s economy in Africa, with one […]
Robert Nolan guest blogs from Brussels As European finance ministers meet once again this week in Brussels, questions linger over the nature — and pace — of economic reforms under consideration by the European Union in the wake of the Greek tragedy. While many national governments have agreed to new austerity measures amidst growing resistance […]
By Rich Basas (originally posted on FPA’s Latin America blog, here) The last summer created a great shift in the discussion on security and the nuclear issue worldwide. Protesters in Iran took to the street after a perceived action by President Ahmadinejad in fixing the elections in Iran to maintain himself in power with the […]
Early Saturday morning the empty truck of Diego Fernandez de Cevallos was found at the gate of his ranch. There were no signs of a shootout, just a smattering of blood that matches Cevallos’ type on a pair of scissors that he was known to use to trim his beard. A logical suspicion is kidnapping. […]
This post can also been seen on FPA’s Latin America Blog. Today and tomorrow the Spanish Presidency of the EU will be hosting the 2010 EU-Latin America Summit in Madrid. Since 1999, the Summit has sought to engage Europe and Latin America in increased cultural and trade ties and create a defined relationship between the […]