by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 22, 2016 | News Briefs
TURKISH PRESIDENT, RECEP ERDOGAN announced on October 22 that Turkey will continue to support the rebel Free Syrian Army against the Islamic State-who occupy Al-Bab in the Aleppo province of Syria. The Free-Syrian Army has clashed with Kurdish People’s...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 22, 2016 | Africa, News Briefs
ON OCTOBER 19 MAITE NKOANA-MASHABANE, South African Minister of International Relations formally withdrew his country from the International Criminal Court (ICC) located in the Netherlands. Masganbane indicated that the ICC is overreaching by forcing compliance...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 19, 2016 | Eastern Europe, Slovakia
IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE COMMUNIST COLLAPSE of 1989, Slovakia, like other Eastern European countries, fell under the sway of aggressive secularism, the dominance of foreign investors, and the political, social-cultural, and economic rhetoric of neoliberalism,...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 17, 2016 | World Bank
THE WORLD BANK International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank (WB) was created in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference held in the United States at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The WB is an...
by Dr. David Marzak | Oct 17, 2016 | Poland, Spark
POLISH DEMOCRACY HAS UNDERGONE a series of changes from the time of its modern inception during the exciting days of Solidarnosc back in 1989. Since then it has moved from a nascent democracy, birthed under Lech Walesa, to an unforeseen reversion back to socialism,...
