Venezuela is a nation in corporate disarray and as such, it makes those who choose to invest look alarmingly arrogant. Despite the intentions of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his socialist ‘nationalization’ regime to all those who oppose, BusinessWeek has reported that Venezuela’s biggest private company says it will boost investment next year and is [...]

General Electric Co., which aims to to expand its Turkish business as the state sells power assets, may revive a plan developed before the 2008 credit crisis to build wind turbines in the country as a means of expanding Turkish energy capacity and avoiding foreign dependence. Local unit General Elektrik Ticaret & Servis AS may [...]

There is very little coverage beyond those who bemoan Chinese activity concerning the intensive rivalries shaping up on both continents with respect to resource extraction. This blog will focus on the Turkish, Iranian, Brazilian, Russian, and Israeli moves in these regions to present a broader picture of a wild and exciting competition for influence and [...]

Legal counsel for South African farmers’ body AgriSA, Gerrit Grobler SC, claimed free enterprise was in jeopardy and that mineral rights were not an abstract right, but a right of ownership with actual value. The effect of the new Mineral and Petroleum Resources Act is tantamount to institutional expropriation because mineral rights “did not exist anymore”, [...]

Visiting UN Secretary General Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa Elizabeth Mataka urgedUganda to drop its impending laws against people infecting others with the AIDS and called upon the government to soften its stand on gays. The Ugandan parliament is current preparing a law under which an AIDS patient who knowingly infects another with the [...]

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Asylum-seekers caught by Indonesian forces and detained for at this point one full month, having still not been classified as refugees by the Australian government, are now on hunger strike. Austrailia continues to state that many are economic refugees and as such are not available for asylum, however those protesting from the images below certainly [...]

As excerpted from ArcadiaFoundation.org : The Arcadia Foundation is adamantly concerned about the promotion of democracy and believe in the fundamental protection of civil and political rights and liberties throughout the world. We are specifically pertaining to the violation of human rights that have occurred of recent date, in countries in which right to the protest [...]

Bloggers have worked adamantly to receive the same kind of prestige as mainstream journalists. Their on-the-ground, grassroots coverage is in many cases exemplary, and especially in a nation like Cuba, such talent should be awarded. It is therefore tragic that Cuba has denied an accredited blogger permission to travel to U.S. to be awarded a [...]

Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt today to stop Britain’s media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy. The case involving lawmaker Paul Farrelly had threatened the rights of journalists to report anything debated in Parliament. British law [...]