2013: The World | National Catholic Reporter

2013: The World | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Actually, continuing the war on drugs is what is killing the Mexican nation.  As for the Arab states, like the small states in our hemisphere, unification into larger regional states under a Hashemite figure head would be a fine idea (and could absorb the Palestinian regions as well).  In states where there is rationing and hunger, decontrolling the economy seems like an expedient.  In Europe, the answer is more fiscal federalism, with a unified debt and tax system to back their unified currency.  North Korea has a set of oligarchs backing their new great leader who will die off.  We will see what happens to him when the sham is over.  All of the solutions are essentially to adopt principles like those practiced here.  Of course, there are very real forces in American industry that hope this never happens (and you did not even mention Africa) - because an empowered world is American industry's worst nightmare.