International

Time to face reality. The Euro’s days are numbered. It might not today, or tomorrow, or even this year but at some point in the not so distant future, the Euro will be shelved and most countries will go back to a national currency. A preposterous claim in the face of the many politicians, money managers, financial leaders, economists, and everyone else who hoped on the Euro-bandwagon all those years ago. But let’s not forget, these are also many of the same people who brushed off the idea of a financial crisis in 2007-2008, and still fail to see that the currently designed globalization system isn’t benefiting everyone (or even “most everyone.”) Read the Rest of the Article

In a recent Pew survey of Middle Eastern counties that are considered moderately to very pro-U.S. (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc.), they found that even with Obama’s “reset” strategy, current U.S. approval ratings are now at an even lower level than they were during the final year of the Bush administration. Given the rise of the Arab Spring and the people who brought it about, it isn’t surprising. The Obama administration has made it easier to name the counties we aren’t bombing than the ones we are. Read the Rest of the Article

The United States has a problem. And that problem goes by the name of Pakistan. As corrupt and as backwards as a country can get, with human rights violations, terrorism, an on-going civil war, a broken economy, natural disasters, and every other problem one could imagine, Pakistan would be in the running for the “Hell on Earth” award. This isn’t to say that there are not millions of perfectly wonderful Pakistanis, indeed there are and many of them suffer at the hands of corruption, extremism, and everything else. Read the Rest of the Article

As more and more pictures and stories arise from the tragedy in Japan, a few things become apparent. Firstly that the wake of destruction is beyond belief. Secondly, the Japanese as a people have delt with this in a manner that is foreign to almost anywhere else in the world, including Asia. Complete and utter peace, complete cooperation, complete unity. What is that gives them quality? Is this lack of outward sorrow healthy? How would other parts of the world react given the same circumstances? Read the Rest of the Article