In recent years foreign direct investment in developing nations has come under threat by government policies seeking to expropriate or nationalize the assets of foreign corporations. A variety of political and economic motivations have given rise to expropriation activities. This paper examines both the political, economic and legal basis underpinning these expropriation activities and outlines a corporate risk management strategy designed to confront these emerging political/economic threats.
... objectives in the Middle East, South America and Africa. Arguably, Nasser's nationalization of ... America, the ideologies of populism, socialism, national liberation and the "countering U.S. impe...
Despite our current perilous times, Americans still have boundless reasons for giving thanks. True, our economy continues to falter, we face yet another national credit downgrade, and families suffer with high unemployment. The nation teeters precariously between free-market capitalism and European-style socialism. But fortunately, we have guidance from those brave Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower who, nearly four centuries ago, faced a choice similar to ours. Our modern Thanksgiving celebration and, in fact, the very prosperity that engenders it, are a testament to the difficult lessons those beleaguered Pilgrims learned. Today, we peddle sanitized, cartoonish versions of Thanksgiving to our children as we focus on feasts and football, Christmas purchases and parades. We may be genuinely ...
Biden, et al. are annoying To the editor -- When President Obama speaks at the podium in the House of Representatives, such as he did Sept. 9 regarding health care legislation, it is an annoying distraction to see Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sitting behind him doing their thing, such as standing, smiling, clapping, grimacing, etc. I do not see the purpose of them being constantly in view just above, and sitting on the left and right of the president.
...JOHN PUCCINELLI. Yakima. Predicted socialism nears. To the editor -- I have had a book on my sh... of what he recognized as a turn toward national socialism in America. In Germany, it thrived as Na...
A panel on "What is to be Done?" by National Political Committee members Theresa Alt (Ithaca), Michael Hirsch (NYC), and Joe Schwartz (Philadelphia) highlighted some issues and tactics not mentioned by the priorities resolution (such as the environment and solidarity economics), as well as the necessity for a global socialist movement to bring about and defend any truly progressive reforms. Hirsch reminded us that even the best reforms won't hold in this "rigged system" if the current disparities of power and wealth continue. Schwartz stressed that this means action, not just talk, for example around the imminent retirement crisis and the emerging social movement to resist foreclosures and to fight state budget cutbacks. Schwartz also emphasized the need to make taxes in this country tr...
...As San Diego's Herb Shore put it, "Socialism is on the agenda" again for many. But to really haave an impact on American politics and policy and to bring in resources that...
Introduction - II. What is the nation-state good for? - III. The nation-state and social integration - IV. The staying power of national identity - V. How nation-states destroy morality - VI. Economic globalization vs. the nation-state - VII. The political and military decay of the nation-state - VIII. Conclusion
The supposed American resistance to the professional game, a puzzle that's been chewed over for decades, is a phenomenon born of factors too complex to discuss here. The United States first fielded a national team in 1885 and there have been intercity professional soccer leagues since World War I. But the enduring image of soccer being somehow un-American is perhaps a question to be filed away with "Why hasn't socialism taken root in America?" (Maybe the word "soccer," derived from "association football," the sport's official name in England, sounds like "socialism"?) It's true, though, that one of the outstanding qualities of soccer is that it is a democratic game. Although the sport has its marquee attractions, like Portugal's gloweringly metrosexual Cristiano Ronaldo, it takes 1 1 pl...
On Feb 28, 2008, two months after unsuccessful negotiations between Evo Morales' Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS) and the opposition group PODEMOS, Bolivia's national congress approved the staging of two national referendums that were to be held on May 4, 2008. The opposition group, which still refuses to acknowledge the government-backed proposed constitution, is mainly composed of Bolivia's dissident-dominated eastern states. The political split has created turbulence and polarization in Bolivia
...Oxford University's Centre for Latin American Studies Research Associate, John Crabtree, listed ...
-The most prominent Black nationalist of the 20th century, Malcolm X, was assassinated on this day in Harlem, N.Y.'s Audubon Ballroom while giving a speech for Black unity. Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Neb. on May 19, 1925, he graduated at the top of his high school class but had his dream of becoming a lawyer crushed when a teacher told him that was "not realistic for a nigger.'' He gradually drifted into the underworlds of first Boston and then New York where he became a drug dealer and gangster known as "Detroit Red." He was friends with comedian and upcoming star Redd Foxx who at the time was known as "Chicago Red." Malcolm was arrested and jailed for robbery at age 20. While in prison he converted to Islam and after his release in 1952, he became the leading force of the Natio...
...African-American scholar and activist W.E.B. DuBois was the chief o...He turned to socialism around 1927 and despaired of the NAACP's legalisti...
The Obama presidency, 2 1/2 years in, has saddled us with a national debt equal to fully 69 percent of America's gross domestic product and an unemployment rate far above what it was when Mr. Obama took office. Home values, meanwhile, have plummeted nationally. One might suppose a sense of collective failure would now temper Democrats' appetite for tax-and-spend rhetoric. Yet reality and defections among their own caucus have had scant effect upon the Democratic leadership's obsession with socialism. A sense of entitlement, meanwhile, grows.
Two days after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, 26- year-old Dietrich Bonhoeffer delivered the first public condemnation of Hitler in the form of a radio address warning the nation against turning the Fhrer into a god. Bonhoeffer's opposition to National Socialism began in the early 1930s and escalated until he joined the German resistance and collaborated with others on several plots to bring down the Nazis by assassinating Hitler. Theaterwork's production of Emil's Enemies, which explores this aspect of Bonhoeffer's extraordinary but short life, has its New Mexico premiere on Friday, Feb. 19, at the James A. Little Theater. Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and theologian who was executed at Flossenbrg concentration camp at the age of 39, was the sixth of eight children born to ...
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