There are times I am tempted to throw my hands in the air and surrender to the populist takeover of American journalism. Complex issues are distilled, parsed, stretched and repackaged to meet the needs of an ideologue position. It happens on all sides of the political spectrum, but there are s
We have reported before about the real recession behind the official numbers in the underground or “black” economy. These are the numbers that the government does not and cannot disclose, but the declines there are equally as bad. A 2005 Wall Street Journal article estimates the underground
When many foreigners think of Lebanon, they envisage a small war torn country under constant threat, and pulled this way and that as a pawn to other powers. many will remember the 2006 Lebanon-Israel War when Iran and Israel used proxies to demonstrate their ire at each other. Lebanon is all that,
The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) released its report in February on human trafficking entitled, “Global Report on Trafficking in Persons”. It still makes for depressing if important reading. At the time, the concerned in the world bemoaned the finding
There is a superstition, common among British children, that breaking a mirror brings a person 7 years of bad luck. Coincidentally, the recent release of the highlights of the Freedom House annual press freedom survey marked the seventh straight year that they have measured overall deteriorati
One of the industries that does not seem overly affected by the global economic recession is the illegal drug trade. Focusing close to the US border only,the Drug Intelligence Center estimates that Mexican drug cartels earn around $23 Billion per annum from supplying drugs to US consumers. Mexico
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