Category: News Videos

To Iran: Go Ahead, Make Our Day That should be the US message to Iran’s threat of closing the Straits of Hormuz. By doing so it would give a sensible American Administration not only the opportunity to blow Iran’s navy out of the water but to hit all those nuclear facilities at the same time….

Pack Your Bags, Its Time To Abandon The Earth The gold rush of the nineteen century witnessed a massive population shift. New towns sprang up around the mines while hundreds of other towns closed down. Towns closed down because their young men and women moved en mass to the minefields in search of gold. ASEAN,…

Entrepreneurship in India and China Entrepreneurs in India and China are driving global economic growth and community development. While having much in common, they also exhibit a number of interesting differences, including their primary motivations for business ownership as well as their main sources of financing and business advice. Iran’s Nuclear Program – Do Something…

Is 2012’s Black Swan Taking Flight In The Middle East? This year’s black swan may be taking flight in the Middle East. Chances rise for armed confrontation between Israel and Iran. Global Stratification – Inequality Between Nations I would like to say that the greatest inequality is not within nation, but between them. It is…

A Look Inside Burma’s Press Freedom, Business and Election – With Aung Thura and Patrick Boehler This month we were fortunate to host two Asia-based professionals with deep insights into Burma. Yangon-based Aung Thura is a Burmese national and returnee whose guarded optimism about the latest developments in his native homeland underscored the hopeful cheers…

Biological Warfare in WW2: Unit 731 Biological Warfare is the act of using virus, bacteria or other biological agents to infect or kill a group of people. During World War 1 the worldwide consensus was that it would never be used in war. To most people the idea of biological weapons was ghastly and unthinkable;…

Siri Derkert – Using Art to Change Society This article describes the life of Siri Derkert, Swedish Avant-garde artist dedicated to improving the situation of women in the early 20th century. The article describes some of her accomplishments as well as her vision for a society recognizing the equal value of women’s contributions to society….

Development and Developing Countries Development is a process that refers to improving economic performance, living standards and other factors that affect the well-being of the people living in a country. The determination of whether a country has become “developed” is often based on a combination of development indicators. The Impending Decline of the USA As…

1952 – The Last Change of Monarch 1952 is a stand out year in the British calendar. It was the year that Gene Kelly was happily ‘Singing in the Rain’ while Jimmy Boyd had the unfortunate boyhood memory of seeing something he shouldn’t have. He penned the tune ‘I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus’ afterwards!…

Happy Life Condition Makes a Happy Country The recent news on the Indian rape cases reported the law enforcing agent to be holding the attire of the female rape victim responsible for causing the crime. Muslim women are covered fully and still rape cases are high in numbers in Muslim countries. This shows that the…