Yearly Archives: 2011
September 11th Ten Years Later: A Personal View
By: Daniel Nardini There have been documentaries about where people were on September 11, 2001, during the Al Qaeda attacks. In my case I was at a train station waiting… Read more
The Throw Away Workers
By: Daniel Nardini Having been on the unemployment rolls myself, I know how the U.S. Labor Bureau can and does manipulate the unemployment statistics. They report the unemployment by those… Read more
Make Everyday A Labor Day
By: Daniel Nardini As we pass this year’s Labor Day, the employment numbers do not make it look like much of a holiday to celebrate. Job growth in August was… Read more
The Lost American Economic Decade
By: Daniel Nardini One has to wonder how the United States, which had almost completely eliminated its national debt in 2000, and was registering monetary surpluses, could suddenly become the… Read more
Puerto Rican Children at Risk
By: Daniel Nardini According to a report put out on its 2011 KIDSCOUNT databook by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, children in Puerto Rico are especially at-risk from a number… Read more
Simple, Delicious Salad Meals
As the school year approaches, days seem to get busier even as the heat of the season stays with us. One bowl dinners are great year round as time savers,… Read more
Ensaladas sencillas y deliciosas como plato principal
Como el año escolar se acerca, los días parecen ponerse más atareados incluso aunque el clima no haya variado mucho para nosotros. Las cenas de un solo plato principal son… Read more
The Fight for Malaysia’s Soul
By: Daniel Nardini Most Malay women, who are Muslim, typically wear the hijab or headscarf. There is no law in Malaysia that requires women to wear the hijab. Nevertheless most… Read more
The Mennonites and the Drug Cartels
By: Daniel Nardini The drug war is doing more than killing tens of thousands of people and destroying the whole fabric of Mexican society. It is starting to create refugees… Read more
When the Dollars was as Good as Gold
By: Daniel Nardini Forty years ago in 1971, then U.S. President Richard Nixon took the United States out of the Bretton Woods Agreements. Under these agreements all countries that traded… Read more »