Expanding the Canadian Dollar: Unique Opportunity or Loonie Idea? – Update

Continuing my revisiting of my past writing, the following was a piece that I wrote in June of last year. Unfortunately there really isn't much to update other then a missed opportunity. In last March the Canadian Ambassador to Iceland made a comment to a local broadcaster about the Canadian Government being willing to discussion … Continue reading Expanding the Canadian Dollar: Unique Opportunity or Loonie Idea? – Update

Could the Syrian Civil War Redraw the Map of the Middle East? – Updated

Political Geography has always been a topic that interested me and I wrote this article back in July 2012 and posted it on a former colleague of mine website called Informing Opinions.  That of course was 10 months ago and the civil war in Syria has dragged on and the toll of death and destruction has continued to … Continue reading Could the Syrian Civil War Redraw the Map of the Middle East? – Updated

Russia’s Green Light

Written in the hours after the Boston bombing my short blog post Russia's Green Light was finished before any thorough or thoughtful examinations of motives or background of the bombing and its suspects had occurred, Since then, the connections between the Tsarnaev brothers, Chechen violence, Russian politics and radical Islam have become some of the primary avenues … Continue reading Russia’s Green Light

Argentina’s Bondage – (UPDATED)

The following is blog post I made over at theriskyshift.com. Although recently published, it was written at the end of March/start of April. Since the writing of this piece the US Appeals Court ruled that the Bond holders must respond to Argentina's offer of restructuring by the 22 of April. On the 20th of April the bondholders … Continue reading Argentina’s Bondage – (UPDATED)