US Jobs: Good News-Bad News?
The US unemployment rate fell from 8.3% to 8.2%, but overall job creation in the US fell below projected expectations. Does this m…
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Afghanistan digital carbon copy
In the last few days I have been talking to finance experts about: Going long on Afghanistan Education. Supporting education is a …
Milosevic, Assad, Gaddafi, Saddam, Chavez
Not so Gentlemen's Club of Despotic Dictators - The Assad regime, Colonel Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein were all antipathetic toward …
Building schools in Afghanistan and supporting veteran businesses is not an act of philanthropy?
I have shared Film Annex's mission of building schools in Afghanistan and creating Veteran business opportunities with several fri…
Two Decades Later-What Have We Learned?
UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency spokesperson Melissa Fleming at 3 April, 2012 press briefing in Geneva: The siege of Sarajevo began 20 ye…
WAR IS A RUBBER BAND
How often do you find yourself talking to people who fought a war on both sides?Last week I was in El Salvador, a country the size…
Landmine Awareness Day at UN
It is now about intensive de-mining efforts from Afghanistan to Bosnia Herzegovina to Ivory Coast, and the United Nations took op…
Winners of ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival 2012
Best European Independent Film 2012 – “Berlinoises” by Rocco Labbé (France) Best Short Script – “The Chicken” by …
Afghanistan and its Education System's Technological Revolution
Beyond the tanks, some distance away from gunfire, and devoid of wreckage, the schools of Afghanistan are buzzing with modern tech…
Overnight Retreat for UNSG & UN Security Council
There will be no sleeping bags, campfires or marshmallows but a lot of fireside conversations. This now annual outing will go on t…
