The euro zone financial crisis has seen its share of historical events but none more telling than the recent ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian Prime Minister’s chair. With the removal of Berlusconi and the rise of a government of technocrats determined to right Italy’s financial ship of state, yet another European nation’s leadership […]
Read MoreAndrei Zaostrovtsev asks this very pointed question in his article for OpenDemocracy.net, “Privatisation, but No Private Property.” After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, many of the state-owned industries were reorganized and sold off to investors by the state, many of these investors becoming very rich off of their purchase of Soviet capital […]
Read MoreSyria’s unrest continues and now Russia has involved itself in the preservation of the al-Assad regime by announcing it is moving warships into Syrian territorial waters to prevent any intervention in Syria’s domestic situation by foreign powers like NATO or Turkey. During the overthrow of Qaddafi, NATO warships and planes provided great assistance to the […]
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