Author: ask

Jet lag caused an early awakening this morning. I had come in from Geneva Wednesday pm. Online by 4.30 am which was good, since I found among my e-mails an announcement for a protest on 6th Avenue at 9 am. Well, I had read a...

It is year end, and The Economist Intelligence Unit has just released its bi-annual report on the state of democracy around the world. The results, unfortunately, are not uplifting. According to the study, a full third of the...

The World Economic Forum has issued its fifth Global Gender Gap Report. The annual report was first compiled in 2006. There has been an encouraging trend since the start of these studies; a majority of the countries surveyed...

This is infuriating! Reading the news this morning, I came across this article in the Guardian: Gulf oil spill: White House blocked and put spin on scientists’ warnings That is the kind of headline I’d normally...

Promoted by Steven D So – I was reading the news this morning and came across the story of Eden Abergil. A former reserve officer in the IDF who left service a little over a year ago. She will now and forever be famous for...