Like Indiana Jones, I hate snakes, and so doing this post (and especially the picture at the right) was a bit unsettling, but the story was just too good to pass up. According to an article in today’s Wall Street…
ABOVE: Robert Mugabe A report in the Zimbabwe Herald, the state-owned mouthpiece for the Mugabe dictatorship, provides an entertaining, if somewhat fictive, account of the recently concluded Zimbabwe Diamond Conference in Victoria Falls. The purpose of the conference was to…
The recently passed Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Human Rights Act of 2012 eliminated a loophole that permitted foreign subsidiaries of U.S. companies to trade with and in Iran as long as no U.S. persons were involved in the transaction. On…
The Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) is running out of countries to flag its ships in its increasingly futile efforts to avoid U.S. sanctions on the company. Even Tuvalu, the fourth smallest country in the world, deregistered 44…