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Will Tunisia and Egypt Recover Economically from the Days of Rage and Regime Overthrows?

Interestingly enough, Egypt was doing quite well in developing a middle-class and reducing its unemployment numbers under the Mubarak regime, and they maintained some nice GPD growth too. Many people watched on their TV and much of the commentary on CNN, BBC, and Al Jazeera spoke of a great new era with this pro-democracy movement. And yet, I cringed at what I saw as total chaos.

Are The Chinese Having a Late China Spring Round of Protests Too In Inner Mongolia?

We’ve all been watching the Arab Spring, or the pro-democracy civil unrest happening in North Africa and the Middle East. Unfortunately, this concept and these protests have been heard around the world by other populations who watch the news. China tries to censor its news, and the Internet to a large degree, but they can’t keep all of those protest events away from their citizens.

How Poverty (Number One Enemy of Africa) Has Devastated the Children of Africa

The World Food Program in 2008 called several African governments and organizations towards the issue of poverty in Africa. But the matter was not taken up seriously and poverty continues to be a burning issue. Children are the worst affected and public hospitals are packed with children abandoned by mothers.

Who Should the US Be Negotiating With in Russia – Who Will Be the Next President There?

Is the US Diplomatic “reset” with Russia about to see a change of the guard soon? One of the potential challenges with negotiating a major nuclear arms treaty is that the individuals negotiating change midstream, thus, it’s important to progress a rather rapid pace or nothing ever really gets done. Is that bad?

Man-Made Famine: Holodomor

This article is about Soviet Holodomor — the famine genocide of 1932-1933 that took the lives of millions Ukrainians. My interest in this historical event was triggered by an exhibit in The Ukrainian Museum in New York City.

Finding Our Way Into the Future With Each Other

Despite the marvels of modern communications technology, we still want to see things with our own eyes and talk with people face to face just as we have over the past several thousand years. Concerts, theater and travel have not given way to instant televised, computerized or smart phone images as some have predicted. If we have not changed in the past hundred thousand years, where are we headed in the foreseeable future?

A Pharaoh Away From Home

Eighteen days was all it took for the country to have an ex-president for the first time in seven thousand years. Eighteen days was all it took for every ruler in the region to become on thin ice with his people after decades of tyranny and suppression.

China Drought Ending – It is Typhoon Season Once Again, Flooding

Perhaps, you were unaware but in China they were having severe power shortages due to the droughts in much of the country. You see, much of China’s energy is generated from hydroelectric plants along their major rivers. When there isn’t enough water to let out of the dams, they cannot generate the electricity they need to run their factories.

Overseas Aid: Teaching People to Fish

The British Government has ring-fenced its overseas aid budget at a time when most other areas of public expenditure are being cut. With the government admitting that about one quarter of overseas development projects fail to meet their objectives, people wonder if the country is getting value for money. Criticism focuses on two main factors: corruption, and the tendency to supply disaster relief rather than to promote long-term development, often called teaching people to fish. This article reflects upon the ways in which teaching people to fish was able to bring long-lasting benefits to Ghana and help the country to be more self-sufficient.

Building A Task Force For Finding A HIV Cure

In the past several years HIV research has made leaps and bounds. Highly active antiretroviral therapies (HAART) have increased the quality of life for most people infected with HIV. But complete relief is far from being a reality.