On October 10/09 Venezuelan former mayor, now state legislator Julio Chavez spoke at the University of Toronto sponsored by Hands off Venezuela and the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle. He came in sporting the unassuming Bolivarian fashion: red T-shirt, red baseball cap (with a Canada logo on it), jeans, and sneakers, and fired up a powerpoint [...]
June 2009 was marked by a number of significant events, including two elections in the Middle East: in Lebanon, then Iran. The events are significant, and the reactions to them, highly instructive.
The election in Lebanon was greeted with euphoria. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman gushed that he is “a sucker for free and fair [...]
Drawing up a scorecard of winners and losers from the financial crisis and the resulting global economic downturn is relatively easy if we concentrate on straightforward economic effects, and if we think of them in the short term. Political ramifications, especially over the longer term, are more difficult to calculate. [...]
Drawing up a scorecard of winners and losers from the financial crisis and the resulting global economic downturn is relatively easy if we concentrate on straightforward economic effects, and if we think of them in the short term. Political ramifications, especially over the longer term, are more difficult to calculate. Some losers by both measures [...]
The price of petrol in India have already gone through the roof. Reason?
Global oil prices are at all-time high levels (about $139 per barrel) and
the nation’s public sector oil companies can no longer sustain the heavy
subsidy on petroleum products.
So which are the nations where the price of petrol is [...]
