We can deduce certain trends about Egyptian painting and the nature of its buyers.
The health news that made the headlines
December 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In November came the news that the Global Fund to fight Aids, TB and Malaria was in a financial crisis, because of declining donor commitments and failure by donors to honor existing commitments. The Fund’s board cancelled Round 11 of its funding applications, which was supposed to provide money for 2011 to 2013.
Africa is a Country
June 28, 2011 By 2 Comments
Must be our blog title. Someone named STONE decides to vent on The Hill’s Congress Blog about US foreign aid in a piece about policing the already shrinking foreign aid budget that’s currently only 1.5% of all federal spending: It does not matter how little the amount sent to foreign countries, it is the principal of […]
Geronimo
May 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
I wondered why initially few, if any mainstream news outlets, pretended to not care why the code word for terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden, among his Navy Seals executioners was that of native American leader, Geronimo. A 19th century Apache leader, born Goyahkla, Geronimo led defensive wars against illegal encroachment on native land by separate […]
The American President’s Mother
April 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Reporter Janny Scott in The New York Times, and the author of “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” writing about Stanley Ann Dunham: The president’s mother has served as any of a number of useful oversimplifications. In the capsule version of Obama’s life story, she is the white mother from Kansas […]
