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Europe

Denmark, known to be the “happiest” nation on the planet, has a long and storied history of providing its citizens with a strong social safety…
From a perspective of continually searching for knowledge and relationships, for synthesizing information into a larger paradigm I have reached a point where the world…
The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in…
The European Union is preparing to bomb targets in Libya to stop migrants from attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in small boats. EU foreign…
The instability of the global financial system and the potential for another crash have been underscored by a major sell-off of government bonds this week.…
Washington continues to drive Europe toward one or the other of the two most likely outcomes of the orchestrated conflict with Russia. Either Europe or…
The 2014 sales figures for cancer drugs were just published by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. Sales of cancer drugs have hit a new all-time…
We live in a truly messed up and Orwellian world if you will.  In many parts of Europe, interest rates are negative.  Savers “pay” for…
Ten years of debate in the European Union over the detrimental effects of the demand for biofuels for transport on food prices, hunger, forest destruction,…
This past week, April 24, European finance ministers met in Riga, Latvia. High on the agenda was the topic of Greek debt negotiations. Two months…
“First comes the missionary, then the soldier,” was an old maxim borne out by the bitter experience of a century of bloody colonial conquest in…
The tragic death of hundreds of refugees last week in the Mediterranean Sea has once again brought to light the deadly hypocrisy of Western leaders…