Former BB&T CEO: Current Policies Will Push U.S. to be a Third-World Country in 25 Years

By Jeff Poor
Created 2010-01-09 00:36

While countries like China, Brazil and India are on the path to ascendency, the United States appears to be heading in the opposite direction, according to the former CEO of a major U.S. bank.
In a segment on the Jan. 7 broadcast of the Fox Business Channel’s “Stossel,” John Allison, the former [...]

Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony

The Arab states of the Gulf region have agreed to launch a single currency modelled on the euro, hoping to blaze a trail towards a pan-Arab monetary union swelling to the ancient borders of the Ummayad Caliphate.

By Daniel Spelzmann
Published: 7:12PM GMT 15 Dec 2009
“The Gulf monetary union pact has [...]

U.S. Envoy Protests Violence in Guinea

By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: October 6, 2009
CONAKRY, Guinea — The obama administration has injected itself into the crisis in Guinea, taking the unusual step of sending a senior diplomat to protest the mass killings and rapes here last week.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called for “appropriate actions” against a military government that she said “cannot [...]