November 2013 – Schirach Report

Tehran’s Charm Offensive Will Work Iran's nuclear ambitions will not worry the West that much, once America and Europe become convinced that the ayatollahs have become friendly

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2013/11/26/tehran-winning-public-relations-battle/ November 30, 2013 WASHINGTON – Secretary of State John Kerry just repeated that...

Tehran Is Winning The Public Relations Battle Once Iran is accepted as a "normal state", then much of the political opposition against its nuclear weapons ambitions will go away

By Paolo von Schirach November 26, 2013 WASHINGTON – The more I look at it, the more the Geneva interim...

New US Tech Bubble Dominated By Social Media Companies Facebook "makes" nothing, yet it is more valuable than Boeing or American Express

By Paolo von Schirach November 25, 2013 WASHINGTON – The NYT correctly points out that we are witnessing something like another US tech...

Geneva Agreement With Iran Would Have Real Value If We Could Be Sure Tehran Negotiated In Good Faith Have the Iranians effectively given up their goal to produce nuclear weapons? Or is this deal only a clever way to buy time, hoping that the West will lower its guard?

By Paolo von Schirach November 24, 2013 WASHINGTON – So, it looks as if we have a deal with...

Young Chinese Professionals Move To The Country In Order To Escape From Horrible Urban Pollution In Chinese cities the levels of harmul particulates in the air are routinely 40 times higher than what is considerd dangerous by the World Health Organization

By Paolo von Schirach November 23, 2013 WASHINGTON – In Europe and in the US we see a trend...

Breakfast with Joy The sauteed mashrooms were delicious, and they kept coming

WASHINGTON – At the Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka, (Zambia), they have a lovely buffet breakfast set up. It is...

President Obama Gave The Presidential Medal Of Freedom To 16 Good Americans — Country Singer Loretta Lynn And Bill Clinton Among the Recipients A solemn yet simple celebration of America's republican traditions. Many immigrants among the honorees

By Paolo von Schirach November 20, 2013 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama was a most gracious host at the...

50 Years Later The Kennedy Myth Lives On Amazing fascination with a mediocre President who did little and who had low moral standards

By Paolo von Schirach November 17, 2013 WASHINGTON – Veteran Fox TV journalist and commentator Brit Hume said it...

The Obamacare Inept Launch Exposed Incompetence and Hubris The Obama technocrats believed that rolling out this gigantic pogram would be easy. Therefore nobody checked. And President Obama did not check because he believed he did not have to

By Paolo von Schirach November 15, 2013 WASHINGTON – Notwithstanding the non stop coverage about the website disaster, the health...

Beijing’s Leaders Will Engage Only In Modest Economic Reforms – The State Owned Enterprises Are Here To Stay This conservative course of action is about politics. The SOEs are instruments of power. Yet, long term, huge inefficiencies will hurt the economy

By Paolo von Schirach November 14, 2013 WASHINGTON – The much anticipated Chinese Communist Party Third Plenum did not produce...