Economic Aid to Pakistan?
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was in Pakistan just recently on a mission aimed at showing US...
Category: International
Happy Fourth America
WASHINGTON – I run into an old acquaintance in the elevator. A few pleasantries are exchanged. And his farewell...
In Arcadia, Playing for South Africa’s Future Energy and dynamism expressed only in soccer games
PRETORIA, South Africa – (Notes from October 2009). The other day I was walking from my Court Classique Hotel to...
Can Europe Make it?
WASHINGTON – “Mistah Kurtz, he dead”. (Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness). This famous line, right after a question in the title...
How Can Western Countries Get Out of Debt? Only By Paring Down Unsustainable Entitlement Programs – A New Social Contract
By Paolo von Schirach May 1, 2010 WASHINGTON – In the case of Greece’s nasty fiscal debacle, everybody’s focus has...
India’s Bharti Airtel Conquering Africa
WASHINGTON – What is the connection between India’s telecom giant Bharti Airtel acquisition of the African mobile operations of...
Singapore Wants to Stay Competitive
WASHINGTON – If there is one economy that is generally understood to be a net beneficiary of globalization this...
Health Care v. Energy
WASHINGTON – What’s the correlation between the vast shale gas deposits in Texas, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New...
Greek Profligacy and the Myth of Cost Free Welfare
WASHINGTON – the Greek public sector deficit crisis has attracted inordinate media coverage largely because it broke out all...
Real Education for All is America’s Future
WASHINGTON – Just a few Republican electoral victories, significant but not overwhelming, aside from the strong symbolism of Ted...