Pakistan is hit by the worst floods in its history. According to rough estimates around 200 million people are affected by it. Official death-toll figure hovers around the 1,500 mark while the actual number is feared to run in several thousands. Many areas are still cut off from the main cities and the only way to reach people is through the air. In such a catastrophe, the response of the…

There has been much talk this week about a creating a ‘Big Society' in Britain, following a speech by UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The argument that individuals and communities should be encouraged to do more for each other and the wider society, and that the state should be expected to do less, has been welcomed by many people, who sense a decline in community spirit over recent years, as…

The European Union-once coveted by European elites as a rival to America's global hegemony- is fast teetering on the abyss of disintegration. Three recent events have fused to unleash irrepressible nationalistic forces that have hurtled the Union towards this earth-shattering moment of truth. Europe's failure to fashion a durable response to the volcanic ash crisis that temporarily grounded airplanes across the continent, exposed deep fissures amongst European countries, as national…

As Greece edges closer to accepting a 45 billion Euros EU/IMF aid package to restructure its external debts totaling 300 billion Euros[i], the role of Germany in exacerbating the crisis has not gone unnoticed. Speaking to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the billionaire financier George Soros said,"The Germans have always made the concessions needed to advance the European Union, when people were looking for a deal. Not anymore. That's…