Transatlantic Times: Covering All the Bases
By Dan Austin, Publisher, Transatlantic Times
We live in a rapidly changing world where events in one region can trigger a totally new series of issues with increasingly significant impact elsewhere. For this reason, it appears as though the era has come for a magazine presenting views from both sides of the Atlantic...Continue
China’s Tiger Economy
By Ian Cochran
As is widely known, there is a general economic slowdown worldwide, which at the time of this writing is just beginning to affect China. Nonetheless, the vast country with its 1.3 billion population, of which some 900 million are described as peasants, is still driving world trade....Continue
NASCAR Popularity: Moving in the Fast Lane
By Leonard Blasso, Transatlantic Times
“Drivers start your engines!” was the command given to ignite a multitude of fuel hogging machines fired up at the start of the Daytona 500 last February. Making the startup announcement on that occasion was none other than US President George W. Bush, thus marking how seriously NASCAR racing is taken....Continue
African Community Abroad Should Help Those Back Home
By Dan E. Austin, Publisher, Transatlantic Times
A community of people is evolving to reflect the diversity of the African continent including Arabs from North Africa, Eastern Africans of Ethiopian descent, dark African Nigerians and Ghanaians, as well as Kenyans, Ugandans, and a South African mix featuring both blacks and whites...Continue
Is Islam Compatible with Western Ideas?
By Christopher Walker
Once a small European country noted mainly for tulips and cheese, Holland - with its population of 940,000 Muslims - has recently moved to the heart of the increasingly violent struggle between Islam and the West. The cause was ....Continue
CIA Chief Tenet Not Forced Out, sources say
By Richard Sale
Amid a massive and mounting scandal in U.S. intelligence, CIA Director George Tenet resigned this past May, citing “personal reasons,” according to administration officials. Former and serving U.S. intelligence officials denied reports by former CIA Chief Admiral Stansfield Turner....Continue
Knee Pain
Continuation of the series “Aches and
Pains We Can Afford to Live Without”
By Dr. Achutha Menon, MD, M.Ch.Orth., F.R.C.S., F.R.C.S.Ed
Although the knee joint may look like a simple joint, it is one of the most complex in the human musculo-skeletal system. Moreover, the knee is more likely to be injured than is any other joint in the body...Continue
