A Sharply Divided Brazil Re-Elects Dilma Rousseff. Let The Healing Begin?
Brazilians reelected Dilma Rousseff as president on Sunday in the most competitive vote since the end of the country’s military dictatorship and the beginning of direct elections in 1989. The incumbent from the Workers’...
Corruption, Foreign Investment, Corporate Responsibility and SSA: The Case of Angola
On the 5th of August, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued US oil company, Cobalt International Energy Inc., with a Wells Notice in response to its operations in Angola. The Wells notice was a formal notific...
Critical Health Epidemics On The Rise In Prisons
Critical health epidemics are on the rise in prisons internationally. Just this week, new controversy surrounds the issue in the light of breaking news that American prisons may have to invest in expensive drug treatment for in...
Thailand’s High School Civic Activism In A Time of Martial Law
These days, you don’t see much idealism or activism among Thailand’s youth—not since a coup last May led to the imposition of martial law. Now that the government has banned public gatherings of five people or mor...
When Will Robots Replace Humans Across Global Industries?
You may not know Hon Hai, but it is to produce 70% of all iPhones 6. It also operates the largest factories on Earth. Terry Gou, founder and chairman, based his success on cheap labor costs as well as audacious merging strategi...
They Lied Until He Died: Zambia Acknowledges President’s Illness Just Before His Death
Left in the dark about their leader’s illness, Zambians were angry more than shocked to learn this week that the country’s fifth president, Michael Sata, fondly known as King Cobra, died in London on October 28.
