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Europe at Bay
It was George Orwell who surmised that the English never see the writing on the wall until their backs are up against it. Much the same can be said for the current generation of Germans. Even their own Chancellor, Angela Merkel, seems perplexed by...
The Creeping Jackboot in Europe
There is mounting and undeniable evidence that the European Union is transmuting into a totalitarian superpower. The governing trend is to carefully devise and control the route to influential position. The electoral apparatus makes certain that those...
Natural Disasters and the Mental Health “Aftershock”
Justin Frewen & Dr. Anna Datta The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in January this year dominated the world’s headlines for several weeks. The global media were bursting with images of people being dragged from the ruins of Port-au-Prince,...
The Socio-Economic Realities of Mental Health in Europe – Part 1: The Economic Costs
Justin Frewen & Anna Datta (Dr.) — When discussing mental health, it is common to focus on the distress and suffering mental health problems may cause together with the most appropriate manner by which society might respond. The human rights...
Crisis: Blame It on Wall Street Hedge Funds
When inquired about the financial crisis, all European leaders had to say was; “Blame it on Wall Street hedge funds, it is their fault”. The argument states that investors made a few slippery bets on Greek debt, things didn’t go as expected and...
Crisis in the UN?
The first decade of the 21st century has not been a good one for the United Nations. The past ten years have seen the UN’s credibility take a serious battering. The international furore created by the Volker report on the UN administration of the...
Failed States
The eagerness on the part of the international community to intervene in states classified as having failed, is not a new one. As Rondinelli and Montgomery observe: History is replete with attempts by foreign governments either forcibly or through diplomatic...
Volcanic Stirrings Threaten Recovery
The clock is ticking away for scientists and aircraft engineers in their quest to find ways of avoiding volcanic dust or detecting it early enough to evade it. Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, the eruption of which severely disrupted air travel...
Book Review: The Future in your Hands
The first rule of survival is to take a deep breath and to then take stock. Evaluate carefully the situation, analyse your options, make a considered judgement and go for it. The world we live in is undeniably dysfunctional. Worse, there is a frightening...
