In 1943, after having flown over the Sahara Desert on his way to a Casablanca conference with Winston Churchill, President Franklin Roosevelt remarked to his son Elliott, that with the recreation of a lake in the depressed flats in North Africa, “The Sahara would bloom for hundreds of miles.” He […]
Economy
Lawrence Freeman on President Trump’s Fundamentally Flawed Africa Policy
Even before President Trump’s latest outrage against the nations of Africa (along with Haiti and El Salvador) referring to them vulgarly as [expletive deleted] countries, whose people should not be welcomed as immigrants, the failure of the administration’s policies toward Africa was addressed in this article by Africa expert Lawrence […]
Nomi Prins: The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Worse Than the Last One
In this new article, renowned economist and investigative journalist Nomi Prins warns of the coming financial blowout while all the financial gurus and spin-doctors are claiming we are in the longest recovery of the past half-century. “We’ve made it through 2017. The first-season installment of presidential Tweetville is ending where […]
Sudan: Sanctions Lifted, Now Development Is Imperative
By Lawrence Freeman October 24, 2017 On October 12, the U.S. announced the long overdue, official removal of some sanctions on Sudan. Now, new and exciting potentials lie ahead for the future of Sudan and its people. This is not the time to delay; the government of Sudan should seize […]
Book Review: Sam Quinones, Dreamland–The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
From `Dreamland’ to Nightmare in One Generation Sam Quinones, Dreamland–The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic New York; Bloomsbury Press, 2015 by George Canning “Dreamland.” The very name invokes the Earthly paradise of cities and suburbs of yesteryear, and journalist Sam Quinones begins his “True Tale” with a prefatory chapter […]
Glass-Steagall Memorials Now in 17 States: Will It Be Enacted Before the Next Crash?
By Nancy Spannaus April 27– New York has become the 17th state where memorials demanding the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall have been introduced. On April 24, Assemblyman Phil Steck introduced a resolution “urging the New York State Congressional delegation to support efforts in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to reinstate […]
Book Review: George Washington’s Vision for Foreign and Domestic Peace and Prosperity
By Nancy Spannaus First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His—and the Nation’s—Prosperity Edward G. Lengel Da Capo Press, Boston, 2016, 280 pp. February 2017–As director of the Washington Papers documentary editing project at the University of Virginia, author Edward G. Lengel has been working for 20 years on the extensive […]
Don’t Get Your History from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton”!
By Nancy Spannaus Hamilton: The Revolution Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter Grand Central Publishing, 2016, 288 pages. March 2017—It is quite possible, as great philosophers have pointed out, for a misguided or totally erroneous action to have positive consequences. So might be the case with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway hit […]
SAVING AFRICA’S LAKE CHAD: A Cornerstone for Collaboration of US and China
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa and Vice Chairman of the International Scientific Advisory Committee to the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC). Over recent weeks, there has been considerable, long-overdue international attention given to the horrific conditions for the people living in the nations of the Lake Chad Basin […]
Famine in Africa: More Than Humanitarian Aid Required
By Lawrence Freeman, Political-Economic Analyst for Africa Famine is stalking Africa, threatening unprecedented levels of starvation. Famine has already been officially declared in parts of South Sudan’s Unity State, Somalia, and sections of the Borno State in Nigeria. Somalian officials reported 110 human beings perished from hunger in forty-eight hours […]