Related Blog Posts
The American Empire
22 hours ago ago from Please Don\'t Run Over Me
This year I've been teaching a class on Western society, which is pretty much just a class on the US and the UK, but more on that later, and during one class I talked about US foreign relations and policy. At the end of the class I posed the question to my students, "Do you think America is an empire." It can be hard to get a real answer out of students for a couple of reasons. The average Chinese person tends to be pretty nationalistic and ...
Related contentWorld Bank: Kashmir is not Indian territory
1 day ago ago from Pakistan Ka Khuda Hafiz
DM Monitoring World Bank refuses to accept Kashmir as Indian Territory —Says ‘NO’ to release funds to India for project in disputed region NEW DELHI, India—The World Bank has refused to accept Indian Occupied Kashmir as an integral part of India and has rather insisted upon a disclaimer from the Jammu and Kashmir government that funding for a [...]
Related contentIndian society is welcoming to entrepreneurs, but government roadblocks remain
20 hours ago ago from Global Employment News | oDesk Job News
A survey of 2,357 Indian entrepreneurs found an overwhelming sense of optimism, tempered by the recognition that the government was stymieing further growth. In the Legatum Institute's Survey of Entrepreneurs: India, 92 percent of respondents said that India's climate for entrepreneurship had improved in the past decade. But the World Bank found that the average Indian startup had to muddle through 12 bureaucratic procedures and take 34 ...
Related contentA Little Ditty Called Someone America
4 hours ago ago from Robert M Petrie I Write Lyrics
A little ditty called someone america, when two people meet from different continents and they fall in love, there can never be an easy solution to a long term relationship. They both have their own families and they both have their own cultures. It takes a lot to leave behind the familiar and embrace the unknown. Someone America You see it's done for me But the day is not over in America I can give you all my dreams Spend ...
Related contentRelated News
Victoria Esser: American Exceptionalism -- Are We Becoming France?
22 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
As news headlines explode in France with the burning question of 'what does it mean to be French?', a debate provoked by President Nicolas Sarkozy and his minister of Immigration, we might wonder why France is engaged in such navel-gazing when issues like the global economy might be considered more timely. While the debate has a serious undercurrent -- examining how Muslims and immigrants integrate into French society -- the posing of the ...
Related contentTapping Into India's Growing Alcohol Market
4 hours ago ago from TIME.com - World
SEARCH TIME.COM Full Archive Covers Videos Tapping Into India's Growing Alcohol Market By Jyoti Thottam / Mumbai and Elliot Hannon / New Delhi Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 A press conference for Indian-brewed Budweiser beer Adeel Halim / Polaris Share Steven Spurrier was in Mumbai but thinking of Paris. He is the British wine expert best known for ...
Related content
