What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? – Seth MacFarlane

By Deena Stryker

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world.  We may remember that at…

This piece about lavish spending by AIG executives after the $85 billion federal bailout is worth reading. It points out the impossibility of reviving a real economy under the leadership of people who…

The yuan is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a number of modern Chinese currencies. The distinction between yuan and renminbi is analogous to that between the pound and sterling; the pound…

By Sam Smith

Pull out a pad of paper and on the left hand side write down the names of all the nationally prominent individuals you trust and admire.

That didn’t take long, did it?

Now on the rig…

By Cecilia Jamasmie

The UK government decided Wednesday to get a foot on the door to Afghanistan’s $1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth, by providing a three-year, $15 million (£10m) plan to b…