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Bhutan
March 30, 2008, Comments Off on Bhutan

Bhutan Broadcasting Service BBC Country profile and news Wednesday Night has two unusual links to Bhutan which have give ...

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 ...

Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal
March 18, 2008, Comments Off on Carbonating India by Cleo Paskal

There is now widespread scientific consensus that human-produced carbon emissions are contributing to global climate cha ...

Mihailo (Misha) Crnobrnja
February 13, 2008, Comments Off on Mihailo (Misha) Crnobrnja

Teaches European Integrations and Economy of Transition in the Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration of The U ...

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 ...

Embroiderers & microcredit: Sheila Arnopoulos in India
January 31, 2008, Comments Off on Embroiderers & microcredit: Sheila Arnopoulos in India

January 30, 2008 From Sheila in Ahmedabad India with grassroots women embroiderers I’m deep into research into Ind ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asia in 2008
December 20, 2007, Comments Off on Asia in 2008

20 December 2007 The Economist The Olympics put China on the international stage IF THIS is to be the Asian century, fut ...

The Bali Conference – Special Reports to WN + Updates
December 14, 2007, 3 Comments

December 17, 2007 CLIMATE CHANGE: Forward, Hopefully Past the Hurdles Analysis by Ramesh Jaura BONN, Dec 17 (IPS) – ...