On February 4, 2011, in Washington D.C., with no input from citizens or their legislatures, President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper created a “North American perimeter,” and a United States-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council, composed of senior regulatory, trade, and foreign affairs officials from both governments. They agreed to a two-year mandate during [...]
A new worldwide spike in agricultural commodity and food prices is generating both predictable and extraordinary fallouts. The search for causes once again leads to a conjuncture of flawed policies in trade, environment, finance and agriculture that is likely to produce more dangerous volatility in years to come. Over the past year, food prices around [...]
While Mexico is not a failed state by any means, it does possess the characteristics associated with a classic “narco- state” like Colombia. That is, it’s faced with a prolonged and protracted “narco-insurgency”, has a highly corrupt judicial system, and also contains a “home grown” narcotics -drugs’ production, distribution industry, which operates both within and [...]
In the 70s when Carter became president the United States decided to raise interest rates and suddenly all the third world, developing countries were unable to pay the huge interest on their loans and nations collapsed leaving them to privatize industries and resources ad dismantle services that were contributing to the growth of the country. [...]
Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Internet search engine giant Google for illegally collecting personal data such as passwords, emails, and other online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses across the United States and around the rest of the world. Google has claimed the data was accidentally picked up [...]
This landmark case helped decide the future for foreign trade. In late 1998 the National Australia Bank (NAB) bought a company out of Jacksonville, Florida called HomeSide Lending, Inc. They bought it so they could have an office in the United States as well as a place to run its main mortgages. In 2001 after [...]
Less than an hour south of the Arizona border, in the northern Mexican state of Sonora, on September 8, 2010 fighting broke out between striking miners, strikebreakers, and federal police at the Cananea copper mine. Three people were seriously injured in this latest round of aggression against the striking miners. Twenty-six people were arrested because [...]
Due to the mistreatment of the native Kalahari Bushmen there is currently a boycott on Botswana diamonds, which are mainly purchased by United States jewelers. The Botswana diamond trade is well-known because of the amount of revenue that diamonds generate every year. The boycott of these diamonds, however, is not as public. Launched in November [...]
Last month Supachai Panitchpakdi, The Secretary General of the UN Conference on Trade and Development reported that Global poverty had doubled since 1970 and that the amount of people living in extreme poverty “increased by three million people per year during the boom years of 2002 and 2007,” which makes a total of 421 million [...]
A Serbian military analyst and an authoritative expert on the situation in Kosovo, Milovan Drecun says that, according to the Europol and Interpol, the largest amount of heroin is delivered to Europe from Afghanistan via Kosovo. According to some estimates, some 65% of all the world’s heroin is channeled through the former Serbian province; while [...]
