Posts Tagged America
Caution: Penalty for burning bridges is solitary confinement
Posted by Stephen Clarke in Foreign Affairs, Politics on 01/11/2011
By Emily Clarke
The vote that granted Palestine full membership of the UN Cultural and Educational Agency (UNESCO) could potentially have wide-ranging consequences for the role of international organisations within international affairs and their relationship with the United States.
Homeward bound?
Posted by Stephen Clarke in America, Economics, European Union on 23/05/2011
Earlier this month the Boston Consulting Group reported that the United States could witness a ‘manufacturing renaissance’ with businesses returning to the country, as the wage gap between America and China shrinks. Can other developed economies expect a similar renaissance?
What’s so scary about the NHS?
Posted by Laura Brereton in Health on 18/05/2009
As President Obama pushes ahead with his plans to reform healthcare in the United States, announcing a proposal that would vastly expand federal regulation of insurance and the healthcare industry as a whole in order to guarantee all Americans access to affordable coverage, he is facing some equally determined opposition. Conservatives for Patient Rights (CPR), a right-wing advocacy group, last week launched a $500,000 television advertising campaign to promote free-market health care. The campaign’s message? Obama’s proposals could turn the U.S. healthcare system into…the NHS!