All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Global Economy & Globalization 2016
December 6, 2016, Comments Off on Global Economy & Globalization 2016

Global Economy 2015 SciDev.Net What is a knowledge economy? George Monbiot: No country with a McDonald’s can remain a ...

Europe & EU 2016
December 5, 2016, 3 Comments

The EU countries are: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland ...

Climate change, uncertainty & natural disasters 2015-16
December 2, 2016, 1 Comment

UN & Climate Change Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are not statistics. Politicians discussing global warming. ...

U.S. Foreign Relations post Trump election
December 2, 2016, Comments Off on U.S. Foreign Relations post Trump election

U.S. Foreign Relations in 2015-16 So, Why Can’t You Call Taiwan? President-elect Donald Trump has committed a shar ...

Raymond Brackstone R.I.P. 1939-2016
December 1, 2016, 1 Comment

BRACKSTONE, Raymond H. Passed into the hands of God peacefully on the twenty-first of November. His cancer was diagnosed ...

Wednesday Night #1812
November 30, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1812

As always, Gerald presented a number of memorable events from the year 1812. The obvious one being the Napoleon’s ...

Pakistan 2013-16
November 29, 2016, 1 Comment

29 November An India-Pakistan Crisis: Should We Care? (War on the Rocks) The world has recently been reminded of just ho ...

Fidel Castro R.I.P.
November 26, 2016, Comments Off on Fidel Castro R.I.P.

Fidel Castro, Cuban Revolutionary Who Defied U.S., Dies at 90 Mr. Castro’s defiance of American power made him a beaco ...

Wednesday Night #1811
November 23, 2016, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1811

Discussion about the obvious conflicts of interest regarding the Trump organization and the necessary probity of the occ ...

U.S. elections 2016 – the mornings after
November 22, 2016, Comments Off on U.S. elections 2016 – the mornings after

The Morning After the Morning After for Blue People ‘The races are not equal’: meet the alt-right leader in ...