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Conflict Worsens Global Food Insecurity

Enterra Insights

The first thing that must be acknowledged is that when a nefarious leader, like Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, are hellbent on committing atrocities, little can be done to stop them. Al-Assad deliberately used starvation as a military tactic in Syria’s on-going civil war. Footnotes. [1]

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve in the United States is expected to raise interest rates this week , the first increase since cutting the rate to near zero following the Great Recession in 2008. percent in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014 in the United States). Of course, what happens in the U.S.

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Export Compliance 101

Arena Solutions

The other jurisdiction is the State Department, the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, DDTC, and they manage and promulgate the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or the ITAR. The DDTC controls 15% of those items that are exported out of the United States. Syria, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba? by-11-inch binder.

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Profiles in Leadership: Volodymyr Zelensky

Enterra Insights

141 countries condemned the invasion; only North Korea, Syria, Eritrea, and Belarus — dictatorships all — voted with Moscow. At the U.N., Major companies pulled out of Russia en masse, erasing billions in revenues. Financial, material, humanitarian, and military support came pouring in. This battle cannot be frozen or postponed.

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I Will Be Wrong Again: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2017

Talking Logistics

Other examples: The United States Postal Service (USPS) published a report in May titled Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Interest Rates : The Federal Reserve of the United States did not raise interest rates this year — that is, until this week when it raised its short-term rate to a range of 0.5%-0.75%

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Is Your Supply Chain Prepared for War?

Enterra Insights

What if there is a second civil war in the United States? Realist IR theories focus on power, and for decades, they maintained that the bipolar world of the Cold War and the unipolar post-Cold War world dominated by the United States were relatively simple systems not prone to wars of miscalculation.