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The Great Convergence: A New Era Of Globalization

As the world becomes one big economy, struggling nations will rise substantially until the great convergence is complete – not only economically, but politically and socially.

Erik Hare
بواسطة Erik Hare

The big story of the last 20 years has been a tale of two worlds coming together.  While the developed world experienced a decade of growth in the 1990s followed by stagnation and then decline in the 2000s, the developing world saw nothing but growth.  The two  phenomena are related in the tremendous expansion of credit and general money supply,

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New DHS Chief Endorses ‘Earned’ Citizenship Idea

Jeh Johnson said path to citizenship would encourage undocumented immigrants “to come out of the shadow, to be accountable, to participate in the American experience.”

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The new Homeland Security secretary says an earned path to citizenship for the roughly 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally is a matter of national security. It was the first time Jeh Johnson, who had little experience with immigration policy before he was appointed, had outlined his approach on the

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Ukrainian president accepts PM’s resignation

The departure of Mykola Azarov as premier would remove one of the figures most disliked by opposition forces.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — In back-to-back moves aimed at defusing Ukraine's political crisis, the prime minister resigned Tuesday and parliament repealed anti-protest laws that had set off violent clashes between protesters and police. The twin moves were significant concessions to the protesters, who fought sporadically with police for the last 10

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Marlboro Marijuana? Satirical Article Sparks Debate On Big Tobacco’s Interest In Weed

Now that marijuana legalization in the U.S. appears to be just a matter of time, Big Tobacco may try to reap some profits of its own from the booming industry.

Katie Rucke
بواسطة Katie Rucke

The Internet was ablaze last week with the announcement that tobacco giant Philip Morris had created marijuana cigarettes known as Marlboro “M.” The only problem is that the article announcing that marijuana cigarettes were now available for sale in marijuana-licensed outlets in Colorado, and soon in Washington state, was a hoax. Posted on the

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Ukraine Riots: How It All Started

Euromaidan reflects a frustrated people, and it may be that nothing short of complete reform will stop the protests.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese

Thousands of people took to the streets of Ukraine on Nov. 22, 2004,  to protest allegations of voting fraud surrounding the presidential runoff election of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko and then-Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The race, which saw Yushchenko severely poisoned under mysterious circumstances from dioxin ingestion, became

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Syrian Beauty Contest Reveals The Heart Of Its Failed Economic Reforms

Bashar’s capitalist-style reforms were not so much about lifting the poor out of poverty, as they were about seeing whom from the middle class could become wealthy.

Norbert Schiller
بواسطة Norbert Schiller
Syrian girls competing for Miss Fashion Model, in Damascus, strut their stuff on the catwalk in 2006. (Photo Norbert Schiller)

At the beginning of June 2000, I was on assignment in Egypt’s Western desert illustrating a story about the Valley of the Golden Mummies that had recently been discovered near the Baharyia Oasis. Shortly after the excavation was completed, the Ministry of Antiquities invited the foreign press to attend the opening of the Golden Mummy exhibit at

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