If you’ve never walked along Africa’s sandy beaches, enjoyed a breezy night under the stars or bumped along in a three-wheeled bike now is you chance to grab the experience. As one of the most diverse continents on the planet, Africa boasts of hundreds of languages, cultures and people groups. It is the second most…
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Reevaluating the Economic Significance of the Levant in a Changing World
For hundreds of years, the Levant has been a regional hot zone for Europe. It has been an important part of European, Arab and Persian history and as a result of past Western hegemony, it had to be an important region for others states who derived no gain or significance from the land. In this…
Content Migration and Targeted Access
If you read this blog often, you know that we cover some pretty intensive topics. Many generally underscore my expertise and research in the field. However, I want to make things easier for readers. How you may ask? Simple. I am segmenting the blog and its content offerings for readers to find the content they…
Free World Rising: Resurrgence of the Fighting Turks
It is without wonder that the Turks of southeastern Europe are known as a stout population. In 1923 the Turks won a fierce war against a host of allies and Western European powers to secure its ancestral homeland. Many are wondering why Turkey and its tenacious leader has come to the fore. While economic and…
Queen’s Gambit Accepted: Perception and Influence in Micro Public Relations
Data from IBISWorld indicates that the Public Relation industry has been growing presumptively over the past five years. The 14 billion dollar industry declined just 12 percent due to Covid-19 in 2020. Increasingly the use of Perception marketing and PR and outreach continues to grow. Social media has become a big part of that as…
Sensitizating Local Populations Through Visual Media
The human eye processes more images per second than some human technology. Humans have the capacity to translate complex data in microseconds. Visual media is able to communicate ideas quickly and effectively because it engages two of our most powerful senses: sight and sound. From the days of word-of-mouth to today, media has continued to…
The Covid-19 Escape Hatch
Never in recent history has their been an opportunity to huge for nations to reset themselves and balance power. The Covid-19 Pandemic has helped to shift already decadent world powers and rising stars. Some nations took the opportunity to pay themselves handsomely, through clever sleight of hand by their central banks. Others, mostly developing nations…
Re-Orienting the Philippines
Despite the worldwide boom in Covid-19 cases in the early part of the year, the Philippines infection rate remained relatively flat. Only in recent times has the archipelago seen an increase in cases, spiking in August with over 55,000 cases. Those are still conservative numbers, even for a nation with a population of just over…
Five African Proverbs for Balance in A Changing World
Usually, every year around this time, I like to release a list of African Proverbs that business owners can use to support their endeavors. Good solid advise to help them navigate their market and persevere through all circumstance. However, given the major changes to markets around the world, and particularly here in the USA with…
The Center Cannot Hold: Economic Aftermath
September 11, 2001. It is a day that no living American will ever forget. The crashes happened in a matter of minutes, but the reverberations from the fallout continues to this day. It was the first time it ever occurred to anyone that the United States could be toppled–that a nation of grandiose democratic ideals,…
A New Independence
In April, 1775, the United State, then only 13 small colonies, embarked upon a national quest to secure independence from the United Kingdom. Despite the many years it acted as a vassal state to the Crown, the new colony sought to secure its own military and socioeconomic destiny. That movement resulted in a years long…
2019 Year In Review
With just days before the new year, everyone is preparing their resolutions, taxes and end of year party plans. While we are eager to look forward, let us also learn the lessons of the past with a brief look back as we close out the year with the 2019 Year in Review: US-China Trade War…
