First Posted: 02/ 9/11 08:58 AM Updated: 02/ 9/11 09:18 AM KABUL (Reuters) – An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said on Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report [Continue]
Gilbert Achcar interviewed by Farooq Sulehria Global Research, February 7, 2011 To help explain the thrilling developments in Egypt, Farooq Sulehria interviewed leading Arab scholar-activist Gilbert Achcar on February 4, 2011. Gilbert Achcar (GA): The Egyptian popular anti-regime uprising reached a first peak on February 1st, prodding Hosni [Continue]
Tony Cartalucci, Contributing Writer Activist Post The puppet masters pulling David Cameron’s strings feel the need to reinvigorate their faltering “clash of civilizations.” As people wake up to the true source of their scourge, namely the international banking oligarchy, they are uniting around a message of true freedom and [Continue]
Since the income gap between middle-class and wealthy families in the United States has grown by more than 50 percent since 1985, middle-class parents are increasingly relying on government-provided health and education programs to support their children, according to a new study by the Foundation for Child Development. The FCD report finds that [Continue]
With deficit hawks poised in the US, we watch with great interest UK economic policy. It’s not looking an enviable example so far guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 February 2011 21.00 GMT UK Chancellor George Osborne will have fewer excuses available to him if growth figures are still bad in April. Photograph: Sipa Press/Rex FeaturesThree months [Continue]
One of the most famous axioms in economics is “bad money drives out good.” This rule has generally been attributed to Sir Thomas Gresham (1519–1579), an English financier who advised King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I with regard to financial matters, and it is popularly known as Gresham’s Law. The circumstances which [Continue]
Posted on 30th January 2011 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues The Founding Fathers described the kind of country they were shaping on July 4, 1776 with the most well known sentence in the English language: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with [Continue]
By Kevin Hassett - Jan 30, 2011 9:00 PM ET Bloomberg Opinion Kevin Hassett Play Video Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) — Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a Bloomberg News columnist, discusses the U.S. economy and outlook for a credit downgrade. Hassett speaks from Washington with Deirdre [Continue]