All posts by Diana Thebaud Nicholson

Is America in Decline?
April 28, 2008, Comments Off on Is America in Decline?

Foreign Affairs, May-June 2008 issue The era of U.S. hegemony is coming to an end and other powers are rising. In this i ...

The Cultural Salon of Dr. Alaa Al Aswany
April 27, 2008, 1 Comment

Brought to our attention by Anne Sophie Coleman OWN, this is a fascinating description of a very different approach to a ...

Air Canada
April 26, 2008, Comments Off on Air Canada

See CBC Indepth: Air Canada More on Wednesday-Night.com It would appear that April is the cruellest month – at lea ...

Wednesday Night #1364
April 23, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1364

Before doing our usual tour d’horizon of news and events around the globe, we would like to call to your attention ...

The Olympic Protest Primer
April 22, 2008, 1 Comment

An Xin (a Canadian ex-pat in Beijing) writes: So much of what is happening here now feels like a kind of déja vu. Once ...

UN ruling on Australia's continental shelf
April 22, 2008, 1 Comment

How may this affect the positioning of the nations claiming the Arctic? We note that the UN body involved in this decisi ...

The Arctic Oil Rush: Alex Shoumatoff
April 19, 2008, Comments Off on The Arctic Oil Rush: Alex Shoumatoff

No one should miss Alex Shoumatoff‘s piece on the Arctic Oil Rush In addition to a wealth of information about the ...

China’s finance policy
April 18, 2008, Comments Off on China’s finance policy

18 April 2008 PBOC chief says China’s reserve growth ‘not desirable’ By Taimur Ahmad (Emerging Markets) -Zhou Xiao ...

Andrea Mandel Campbell
April 18, 2008, Comments Off on Andrea Mandel Campbell

April 22, 2008 We sympathize with Andrea’s argument, however must point out that we also believe that William Mars ...

Wednesday Night #1363
April 16, 2008, 1 Comment

First, we would draw your attention to last Wednesday’s discussion of China, Tibet & the Olympics – a nu ...

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