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PODCAST: What the super committee lost, Egypt's revolutionary flare up
by
Mary Dooe
Nov 22, 2011
We speak to the President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli about how the debt crises in the U.S. and Europe are affecting his country, and how Panama is continuing to grow. Reporter Mitchell Hartman shows us one place that was shaken to its core by the housing crisis. And what does the OWN network need to do to succeed?
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Egyptian Stock Exchange put on hold in wake of protests
Nov 22, 2011
Protests in Egypt continue today, causing the stock exchange there in Cairo to shutdown trading.
Protests continue in Egypt over government handover
by
Kai Ryssdal
Nov 22, 2011
The country is set to have elections next week, but tens of thousands of protesters have been gathering in Tahrir Square for four days to demand a quicker transfer of power to civilians.
Google's driving the GBus in Egypt
by
John Moe
Sep 29, 2011
Starting this week, a Google-branded bus will begin a trek across Egypt looking for entrepreneurs. The idea is to find young people with big ideas,...
Daily roundup of social media and jail: England and Egypt edition
by
John Moe
Aug 17, 2011
Actually, if it's England, I guess we're talking about gaol....
A Private Sector for the Public Good in Egypt
Jun 22, 2011
The World Bank may not have anticipated the Arab Spring uprisings, but they claim to have a plan for the future. They've announced billions of do...
In Egypt, Affordable Housing is the Price of Love
Jun 21, 2011
Think affordable housing is just a matter of number crunching and government regulation? How about sex?
OK, so maybe not just "sex," but in Egy...
For public good, not for profit.
Hernando de Soto on the Middle East's 'Informal' Revolution
by
Stan Alcorn
Jun 20, 2011
Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto is best known for the big, paradigm-shifting idea of his 2000 book: The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Tr...
US funding secret internet access
by
John Moe
Jun 13, 2011
The New York Times is reporting that the United States government is building internet and phone access systems that can be used even in the event...
UN declares internet access a human right
by
John Moe
Jun 6, 2011
This is a more important story than anything Apple or Nintendo announces. Apple will have a new product, it will succeed or it won't, lives will be...