The Dismal Record of African Leadership…
…and the Past Role of European Countries Who am I to say this, and how dare I say it? I am merely responding to the announcement made by the prize committee of The Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in...
View Article“… at last the world knows America as the savior of the world!”
The words in the heading for this article are those of President Woodrow Wilson, given to an audience in Portland, Oregon, 1919, referencing the USA’s role in the establishment of the League of Nations...
View ArticleThese Fourteen European Countries are Disappearing
[See end notes for sources, inclusions and exclusions] These countries are currently losing population (sorted by population growth rate): [Note: Fertility Rate is the ratio of ‘total children born’ to...
View ArticleLetter from Poland
I recently visited Kraków, Poland, with nine of my writing colleagues, for a ‘writing retreat’ and some minor tourism. We arrived 10 November, the day before an important national holiday, National...
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