Alexander Zinoviev’s Self-Portrait: Thinking is Painful: “Striving after the painful truth has become the fate of exceptionally rare loners.” NOTE: This article is from February, and I have posted it so we can have this well developed view of the USA versus Russia debate. It is a long article, thoughtfully written and filled with facts…
Near Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, the Country Brand Index’s highest ranked Latin American country Conducting business meetings isn’t easy when people don’t even know you exist. Just ask Eduardo Clari, an investments specialist. Paraguay’s state export and investment promotion agency. “They confuse us with Uruguay. Or else they think we’re part of Brazil,” says…
Lethal active Merapi volcano erupted Wednesday, after spewing lava and smoke for more than a week. The volcano’s first blast came a day after a major earthquake hit the country, triggering a tsunami and killing hundreds.
Ritchie Katko spends his days working for the Make it Right Foundation in the Lower 9th ward in New Orleans. This January, while the city was consumed by Saints fever, Ritchie, along with a group of fellow architects and thought leaders traveled to Haiti to offer their assistance. A few weeks ago, they made a…
Unveiled at the Copenhagen Climate summit, the new bottle has been found to have a 12 to 19 percent smaller carbon footprint than traditional plastic bottles. In part, that stems from the fact that Coke’s petroleum-based plastic bottles require upwards of 17 million barrels of oil per year to produce, the Pacific Institute, a California…