Post-Sept. 11 Wars Have Cost $4.79 Trillion

On Sept. 14, 2001, President George W. Bush visited the still-smoldering ruins of the World Trade Center and addressed first […]

By Aidualc | 26 Oct 16 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The European countries that take in the most refugees, in one interactive map

Europe is in the middle of a refugee crisis. Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of people have migrated […]

By MarketAngel | 15 Dec 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, Statistics, The Big Picture, Tools and Resources, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Culture Clash: How ISIS Could Send Europe Over the Edge

By Riyadh Mohammed  The dramatic and tragic images of refugees pouring into Europe from the Middle East represent more than […]

By Aidualc | 23 Nov 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Is Russia Plotting To Bring Down OPEC?

  By Dalan McEndree  President Putin’s recent moves in the Middle East—to shore up Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria through […]

By Aidualc | 11 Nov 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Commodities, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought | Comments (0)

Why Shiite Expansion Will Be Short-Lived

Analysis Forecast That a bloc of Shiite states has coalesced in the Middle East is a significant geopolitical development; that […]

By Aidualc | 05 Jun 15 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Iraq and Syria Follow Lebanon’s Precedent

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Lebanon was created out of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. This agreement between Britain and France reshaped the […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 27 Aug 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

The World’s Most Content (and Miserable) Countries

By Thomas Frohlich and Vince Calio, 247WallSt, World news does not always fully capture people’s level of happiness. Last year, […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 29 May 14 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Asia, Eastern Europe, Food for Thought, Latin America, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Happiest and saddest countries 2013

The Prosperity Index Everywhere you look in this world there are signs of instability, destruction, hopelessness. Syria is in civil […]

By MarketAngel | 10 Dec 13 | Posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Syria and the Limits of Comparison

By Robert D. Kaplan, Stratfor, Because so many war plans simply do not survive the reality of war itself, each […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 31 Aug 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, The Big Picture | Comments (0)

Obama’s Bluff

By George Friedman, Stratfor, Images of multiple dead bodies emerged from Syria last week. It was asserted that poison gas […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 28 Aug 13 | Posted in Africa / Middle East, Food for Thought, North America, The Big Picture | Comments (0)