An excerpt from Richard Florida’s recent article from Utne Reader:
Obviously, this shift has come about with the changing of the political guard in Washington, from the internationalist Bill Clinton to the aggressively unilateralist George W. Bush. But its roots go much deeper, to a tectonic change in the country’s political-economic demographics. As many have noted, [...]

Within 10 years I hope to speak Japanese and Chinese fluently in addition to English and Spanish. I’m super surprised to see neither Hindu nor Urdu in the statistics. (via Brianstorms)

For everyone interested in information about and resistance against the FTAA, Indymedia.org has put together a very informative site with almost all articles available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. Make sure to chose your language at the upper left.
I’ve got too much going on right now, but I hope to write a few posts about [...]

Note: This is a something I wrote nearly a month ago after reading a Jakarta Post article in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. For whatever reason I didn’t post it, but Elenita’s recent comments inspired me to.
Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the internet as we know it as well as HTML – the markup language with which we [...]

I have long been interested in how remittances effect both sending and receiving communites of migrant workers. The amount of money sent to the developing world by immigrants (nearly 10 billion dollars each to Mexico, India, and the Philippines) has received scant attention despite its potential in development as well as its need for reform.
So [...]

It’s not so often that I find myself in agreement with NY Times Op-Ed writer Thomas Friedman and his heavily biased writings about globalization, but he couldn’t have said it better about the meaning behind last month’s Indian Elections:

I don’t know where I am. I mean … I do … I’m at The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf inside of a mall. I’m drinking a double Americano with that vanilla powder stuff I like so much. But I don’t know if the world still exists. Could be that it blew up. I think [...]

Almost every traveler through the deveoping world spends a disprortionate amount of money on some special convienence or vice. For most it is alchohol and cigarettes. Here in Thailand, for example, a good meal should cost you somewhere between fifty cents and a dollar. Accomodation runs about a dollar or two a night. (I am [...]

Via this article, I learned today that the White House will “impose tighter restrictions on so-called “educational travel” to Cuba by American groups, which have increased in recent years and are widely considered de facto tourism.” Bush said in a meeting today that the new restrictions were part of “a strategy that says we’re not [...]

Just after posting that last bit I found a very interesting exchange of letters and a response by Huntington here on the FP website. (they annoyingly ask you to register)
Here is what my old advisor, Wayne Cornelius wrote: