Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
The Next UN Secretary-General: An Experienced Woman to Foster Global Food Security
Food security and related humanitarian needs present the great unacknowledged challenges of the 21st century. While conflicts in countries like Syria and Ukraine dominate the daily news cycle, and longer-term concerns about climate change and energy security are frequently aired, the problem of hunger and the emergence of new threats to world...
Ukraine is no Greece or Puerto Rico and needs IMF help now
Greece is a deadbeat nation, Puerto Rico is a party that lives beyond its means, but last year war-torn Ukraine made more interest payments to its lenders than it spent trying to defend itself against Russia. I just returned from a trip to Ukraine and learned that Ukraine was forced to make a $75 million bond payment to Russia, the perpetrator...
Putin Wishes Obama Happy Independence Day In July 4th Message Calling For Mutual Respect
MOSCOW, July 4 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin called for dialog based on equal treatment and mutual respect with the United States on Saturday in a congratulatory message to President Barack Obama marking U.S. Independence Day. Putin said U.S.-Russian relations remained important for solving global crises. The two countries...
Bosnia to US, From Refugees to Great Americans
Early July still brings a bittersweet week for Bosnian-Americans. They are reminded by the Srebrenica genocide commemoration why so many had to flee Bosnia and Herzegovina and why they/we are so fortunate to have been welcomed in America. The Declaration of Independence, US Constitution and Bill of Rights highlight the reasons behind...
Beyond Influence: Rethinking Elites in the Brave New World
By Katharina Schramm, Graduate Student in Accounting & Finance, University of St. Gallen Aldous Huxley was fascinated with elites. In his novel Brave New World (1931) he creates a society of Alphas ruling over Betas, Deltas, Gammas and Epsilons in a caste system state order. The rules of society are simple. 1. Stability is valued over...
Russian Cargo Ship Successfully Launched; Will Bring Critical Supplies To International Space Station
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian booster rocket on Friday successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship to the International Space Station, whose crew is anxiously awaiting it after the successive failures of two previous supply missions.A Soyuz-U rocket blasted off flawlessly from Russia-leased Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, placing the Progress M-28M...
North Korea – A Rational Wildcard in the Pacific
North Korea has featured prominently in the discourse on Asia-Pacific security in recent months. Its long-range nuclear missile testing efforts, alleged involvement in the Sony hacking incident, and declaration of cyber-war with the United States, have alarmed Western policymakers. Also, North Korea’s announcement of a year of friendship...
Why Is It So Hard for the European Union to Act Like a Federal Body?
All of Europe has its eyes on Greece. Sunday, July 5th there will be a referendum that could be the first step toward the end of the European Union as we know it. A European Union that, once again, has failed.In the past two years, the European Union has had to deal with three crises, one on the political level (Ukraine) and two on the economic...
The World’s 8 Most Beautiful Abandoned Cities
By: Joe McGauleyCredit: Flickr/Wayne Stadler If you’ve seen any zombie movies, you know how haunting an abandoned, once-thriving city can be. But despite the ruin and overgrowth, there’s also a flicker of beauty that shines through the silent emptiness. Over the course of the past few hundreds years, these 16 metropolitan areas have...
Why the Armenian Spring Is Not Maidan 2.0
On June 19, 2015, protests broke out in the Armenian capital of Yerevan as demonstrators expressed opposition to President Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to raise electricity prices by 17% to 22%. Over the course of the next week, this initial episode of unrest blossomed into what many have described as a Maidan-style revolution, featuring...
