The announcement of election results favoring the party of president Rene Preval has given the appearance of a stolen election in Haiti and triggered several days of violence, according to the Montreal Gazette. From 2004 – Poor neighborhood in Haiti
The Mideast peace process has collapsed after a stark admission of failure by the Obama administration, abandoning its strategy for reaching a Mideast peace agreement, according to VOA. Mahmoud Abbas The Obama administration will no longer try to persuade Israel
A couple of my BigPeace readers have asked for further details about the Generational Dynamics methodology for analyzing history, and relating historical events to today’s world. To illustrate the methodology, I selected the Mongol invasion of China in the 1200s.
Last week (see Ireland Bailout Fails to Calm Markets), we showed you graphs of bond yields (interest rates) for four of the PIIGS countries — Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Now, here are the graphs for Italy and Belgium: 10-year
Feuding European officials signed off on a bailout of Ireland’s banking system on Sunday night, but it failed to calm financial markets on Monday morning, according to EuroIntelligence. 10-year bond yields for Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece as of November
One of the properties of a fractal is that you can zoom into a tiny portion of it, and it still looks like the original fractal. Fractal From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, history is like a fractal.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts that there will be a major food crisis in 2011, unless food production is increased substantially. The analysis appears in the organization’s biannual “Food Outlook Report.” FAO Food Price Index versus
European Union and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials flew into Dublin on Wednesday to save the euro and the European Union. Irish Daily Star EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy has warned that the euro and the European Union itself
It could be a comedy Broadway play if the consequences weren’t so serious, but it’s increasingly obvious that everybody involved in the so-called Mideast “peace process” — with the possible exception of the Obama administration — does not really want
The military junta in Burma (Myanmar) had hoped to regain some international credibility by holding the first supposedly free election in 20 years. Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of Burma independence war hero Aung San (VOA) Burma’s election
In recent months, we’ve seen China’s policies in the South China and the East China seas become increasingly confrontational and belligerent, as they’ve claimed that hundreds of islands, waters and sea lanes that have historically been part of other countries
A very dramatic scene is underway in the obscure republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, a province in southern Russia, part of the North Caucasus. On October 20, gun fighting broke out between rebel forces and police, in which people on both sides
On Saturday, Yemeni police arrested a college girl and her mother in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, a day after parcels containing bombs sparked a global security alert, according to Al-Jazeera. Printer plot bomb: Explosives were hidden in toner cartridge
From China’s point of view, ceasing exports of rare earth elements (REEs) makes a lot of sense outside of ideology. China needs these minerals for its own manufacturing as much as any other countries do, so the Chinese might well
Russians were shocked on Tuesday morning by the news of a successful large-scale terrorist attack on Chechnya’s very well protected Parliament building in Grozny. Chechnya (Discovery Corp) The attack began when vehicles containing rebel militants made their way into parliamentary
On October 4, a wall holding an enormous reservoir of toxic red sludge collapsed in Hungary. Within an hour, 3 villages were buried deep in in 200 million gallons of the sludge, the waste product from a plant producing alumnina,
An international row was triggered on Saturday by a leading German politician who said that Turkish and Arab immigrants were unable to integrate into German society and should no longer be accepted, according to the Guardian. Horst Seehofer, the premier
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas says that he will resign as PA president if Israel resumes building West Bank settlements, which would cause the collapse of the Mideast peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Mahmoud Abbas shakes hands
On Monday, Goldman Sachs senior investment strategist Abby Joseph Cohen appeared on CNBC and lied about the S&P 500 price/earnings ratio index. She said that it was “dramatically below average,” when in fact any WSJ reader could check and see
Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has honored Generational Dynamics by selecting a paper on the commercialization of Generational Dynamics as one of the winners in its 2010 Leading Edge Forum Papers program. CSC President Mike Laphen (R) presents 2010 Leading Edge
Japan attempted to turn the tables on China on Monday, by demanding that China pay for repairs to two Coast Guard vessels that were damaged during the confrontation with a Chinese fishing boat on September 7, according to Bloomberg. The
A major computer virus attack has spread to the Windows computers at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, according to the Telegraph. However, the project manager at Bushehr said that the major systems at the plant have not been damaged. Iran’s
Some 6,000 people gathered in central Stockholm square on Monday evening at 6 pm to protest electoral success of the far-right political party, Swedish democrats, shouting “No to racism!” according to Swedish Wire. “It has been a big shock for
On Tuesday, a bomb blast damaged four police cars just outside Manama, the capital of Bahrain. There were no casualties, according to AFP, but the attack is thought to be part of an Iran-supported series of planned terrorist attacks, targeting
