Category Archive: Africa

• How America Builds Its Way Back to Balance

  Michael Moran April 11th, 2012

  The following is an excerpt from The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power, with a forward by Dr. Nouriel Roubini, available in the United States on this week from Palgrave Macmillan and in Europe on 17 May. Moran, a former RGE vice president and geostrategy analyst, is now Director and Editor-in-Chief of [...]

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• Stop Paying the Egyptian Ransom

  Michael Moran January 27th, 2012

  It is winter again in Cairo. Amid continued civil disobedience, backsliding by the military “transitional” government and souring attitudes, people rightly took time this week to celebrate the rising that ejected Hosni Mubarak’s despotic regime a year ago. But the country is in crisis. While political activists and military men debate the direction of the [...]

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• Europe’s Fire Sale: Begging Former Colonies for a Bailout

  Michael Moran November 24th, 2011

  Buried amid reports about unrest in Egypt and Syria, Obama’s trip to Asia and the jobs versus deficits debate in Washington was the latest evidence of a disturbing trend: a piece by the New York Times’ Adam Nossiter on Portugal begging its former colony, Angola, for a bailout. With little fanfare, Angola, once a bountiful source for [...]

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