SINGAPURA: AVALIAÇÃO DE DESEMPENHO DE PROFESSORES, written 1 week ago, "Singapore has arguably the most developed career system for teachers, with a performance-based pay plan in place for about a decade. More recently, the government has created three career tracks for teachers: a leadershi...

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For the last several years I've gone from the small town of Camden, Maine to rural Florida, El Salvador, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia and back again.

As states weaken, the world finds a return to brigandage UPDATE: Somali Islam extremists to the rescue, written 2 days ago, I don’t quite get the modern love affair with pirates. I wonder if in 350 years there’s going to be some romantic notion of the global Islamic terrorist network - “Osaba ...

Mearsheimer and Walt Are Wrong....sort of, written 4 days ago, One of the most overplayed parts of M&W's argument has to be how supporting Israel's occupation of Palestine damages America's "national interest" (whatever that is). To be sure, it hurts America's image in the region and m...

Intelligence Report: U.S. Declines as Russia, India, China rise, written 1 day ago, November 21, 2008, NY Times and MSNBC Every four years the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) publishes an updated report on global trends. According to the newest NIC report, entitled Global Trends 2025, the...

The story of an Honest Pakistani, written 2 days ago, I recently bumped across this story appearing on The Consumerist website, an article tucked away in a section called ‘Above and Beyond‘. It is after reading this narration one is definitely overwhelmed by the fact, that despite all the nega...

Special Extra: The Final Countdown on the Russian Stock Market, written 3 days ago, For the 35th time since the August financial crisis began, the Russian stock markets were shut down on Thursday at 1:30 pm Moscow time.  At their low ebbs, the RTS dollar-denominated index was down over 8%, and the...

Maguire: UN should suspend Israeli membership, written 2 days ago, Maguire, in rally several months ago in Naalin (Photo: Activestyles) Associated Press ynetnews.com, November 20, 2008 Nobel laureate decries humanitarian situation in Gaza, accuses Israel of ignoring UN resolutions Nobel Peace P...

Mia's Message to the Bees, written 2 weeks ago, AS I PREPARED to pen this message for the Annual Conference of our great political party, I became acutely aware of how a number of seemingly unconnected coincidences have been perfectly aligned to position the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to once again...

Estonian Spy Scandal Shakes NATO and EU, written 2 days ago, For years an Estonian government official has apparently been collecting the most intimate secrets of NATO and the EU -- and passing them on to the Russians. The case is a disaster for Brussels. Communications between the suspec...

Prayer Camp Violations in Ghana, written 2 weeks ago, This is a guest post by Alex Young, a blogger, political analyst and postgraduate student. He writes at Global Justice: Tipping the Scales. This article was originally published by The Daily Guide of Ghana. The provision of services for those suf...

Calendrical & Time Manipulation (Part 1), written 2 days ago, Another subtle yet devastating aspect of the global conspiracy is their manipulation of calendars, clocks, and our perception of time. We are being enslaved by man-made mechanisms and systems for keeping time. Not only are we wage-s...

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Lindley-French on a new EU-NATO agenda, written 1 week ago, As Gideon Rachman recently pointed out on his blog, conferences can be hit or miss affairs. Using the examples of the two latest such events he has attended (on the futures of the EU and US engagement strategies respectively), he also remin...

It's over. Finally! Thought's on the US presidential election, written 1 week ago, There are so many reasons why I think Obama is the right person for the presidency, not that we can do much about it now. As Andrew Sullivan wrote back in December 2007 in the Atlantic (A highly recommended read): O...

Sweden ratifies Lisbon Treaty, written 2 days ago, After twelve hours of plenary debate, the Swedish Parliament (Sveriges Riksdag) approved the EU Lisbon Treaty at midnight local time, clearing the way for formal ratification by depositing the ratification instrument in Rome. Source: http://www.rik...

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To Amir Abdullah, written 2 days ago,

The Anti Americanism mindset, written 2 days ago, Confucius was right, “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star”. As I see it, a night clothed in a mistaken premise from which erroneous and foolhardy assertions are drawn. Consider a case in point, the London based ...