A Global Game that Never Ends

| Jan 25, 2010 | Peace / SecurityHey boys and girls, let’s play “Name That Country.” I’ll give you a few clues, then the first one of you to guess the country’s name wins a prize. Ready? Let’s go! This particular country is one that few Americans have known...

Shouldn’t ‘Local’ Businesses Be Local?

| Jan 18, 2010 | Economy / BusinessIn Alice in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty declares: “When I use a word, it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.” Well, get ready to tumble down the semantic rabbit-hole again, for giant corporations are trying to co-opt the meaning of one of...

Stop the Merger Merry-Go-Round, We Need to Get Off

| | Economy / BusinessWhat may be the dumbest corporate merger of all time—the $165 billion deal that saw AOL gobble up Time Warner a decade ago—ended just before the holidays, when AOL formally spun off into a totally separate company. That AOL-Time Warner merger had been a disaster for...

How About We Call It Quits On Empire?

| Jan 11, 2010 | Peace / SecuritySure it’s fun, But costly too; Telling nations, What to do. And you thought Star Wars was just science fiction, right? Ha! Remember how the heroic insurgents were first ferreted out by a drone? Remember how the rulers of the universe were called “The...