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Global Monitoring Report 2008
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on Global Monitoring Report 2008

World Bank IMF IMF’s Global economic prospects for 2009 (.pdf) April 11 Climate Change Rises On World Bank Agenda ...

China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions
April 11, 2008, Comments Off on China, Olympics & Politics – Opinions

April 11 Gwynne Dyer: Controversial flame has never burned brightly (New Zealand Herald) What’s actually colliding ...

China, Beijing Olympics
April 8, 2008, 3 Comments

 See also Tibet and The Olympic Protest Primer April 24 China to clear out students, refugees before Olympics Beijing & ...

Predatory states & democratic recession
March 24, 2008, Comments Off on Predatory states & democratic recession

The Democratic Rollback Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008 Summary ...

Wednesday Night #1353
February 6, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1353

If there’s anything going on in the world besides Super Tuesday, it’s hard to discern it in the media, wheth ...

Kenya: Commentary on underlying conflicts
January 10, 2008, Comments Off on Kenya: Commentary on underlying conflicts

January 10, 2008 We are extremely grateful to our friend Philip Osano for his lucid and detailed personal observations o ...

Wednesday Night #1348
January 2, 2008, 4 Comments

2 January 2008 Oh Come all Ye Faithful Pedant and Insightful Oh Come Ye, Oh Come Ye to Wednesday Night. Come and be clev ...

Unique Kenyan Game Park Under Human Threat
January 1, 2008, Comments Off on Unique Kenyan Game Park Under Human Threat

As we worry about the outcome of the elections in Kenya and the resultant riots, the undermining of democracy and prospe ...

Wednesday Night #1347
December 26, 2007, 3 Comments

The amazing Oscar Petersen 15 August 1925 – 23 December 2007 is mourned around the world. The last Wednesday Night ...

Africa in 2007
December 24, 2007, Comments Off on Africa in 2007

Will Kenyan election cap a dismal year for Africa, or show the way? By CHARLES ONYANGO -OBBO In the end, it was not to b ...

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