Simon Winder of the United Kingdom’s The Telegraph argues that the recent events in the euro zone and the threat of imminent collapse without German intervention has placed the country in the position as an emergent, yet reluctant, superpower. Does Germany’s preeminence in the European Union qualify it for such lofty status? Simon Winder argues that […]
Read MoreRichard Wilkinson has studied History at the London School of Economics and receives his Masters from both the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Nottingham, his second being in “Socio-economic Factors in Mortality Differentials.” Along with Kate Pickett he founded the Equality Trust, an organization that attempts to explain the social benefits of a […]
Read MoreA wealthy Chinese developer has made a bid on a tract of land in Akureyri, Iceland, with such amenable features as mud pools and molten lava fields. Huang Nubo is a former Chinese government official whose claims of wanting to develop a resort have come under scrutiny by Iceland’s Interior Ministry. Some more conspiratorially minded […]
Read MoreForeign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse […]
Read MoreThe Iranian regime has claimed to have arrested 12 undercover CIA agents within the Islamic republic. Iran’s state news agency Irna reported Parviz Sorouri, a member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, as saying that the undercover agents were gathering information on Iran’s security, military and nuclear activities. Former U.S. officials […]
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