Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media Open Letter to the...
By Peter Koenig
To the Editor in CHIEF
NYT - 18 May 2019
Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say
Subtitle:
Butchers have stopped...
Anarchy in the USA: Five Years On, the Legacy of Occupy Wall Street and...
By Ruth Kinna, Alex Prichard and Thomas Swann
It was a turning point in the story of a new kind of democracy – and how...
The Delusions of Counterinsurgency
By David Martin Jones and Michael L.R. Smith
The theory and practice of counterinsurgency, ‘COIN’, preoccupied Western military thinking after 9/11. In the Political Impossibility...
Bigotry for Profit and “Fun:” Traversing the Wasteland of U.S. Election News
By Anthony DiMaggio
By now, many Americans are familiar with CBS President Les Moonves’ infamous comment that journalists’ sensationalistic fixation on the Donald Trump “circus”...
Neither Wanting Nor Seeking Truth
By Bruce Fein
The media brims with false, misleading or distorted news. But it is not primarily their fault. Their largely segmented audiences covet...
The Demise of Global Britain
By Graham Vanbergen
The almost universal collapse of British foreign policy could not have been timed any more accurately than right now – a time...
Donald Trump is the Presidential Candidate the Republican Party Deserves
By Lawrence Ware
Republicans have had no problem using bigotry, often in subtle ways, to win elections. White supremacy is a well-established part of Republican...
Understanding the Sustainable Lifestyle
By Steven Cohen
A sustainable environment and economy are possible only if they provide support to a sustainable lifestyle. This is a way of life...
Hate Crime Laws Are a Form of Discrimination
By James Jacobs
In a hierarchy of victims, where do murdered police officers belong? The move to conceptualise attacks on police as hate crime is...
Emoji: New Language or Trend?
By Marcel Danesi
As societies change and grow, language too, evolves. In this article, the author analyses the rise of the emoji as a means...
Hindu Nationalism and the Consolidation of Hate Politics in India
By Kalim Siddiqui
When we look back, since the demolition of the Babri Masjid a quarter of century ago, it seems a well-planned and well-thought...
Why Have Politicians Abandoned Economic and Financial Policies to Non-Elected Bankers?
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Since 1999, non-elected bankers have been in charge of economic policy in the US and other countries, with questionable results. Are we...
Immigration, Food Justice and the Fierce Urgency of Now
By Julian Agyeman, Alison Alkon and Sydney Giacalone
Food justice recognises that one’s experience of the food system is determined by and is inseparable from...
Sri Lanka – Candidate for a New NATO Base?
By Peter Koenig
Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to...
WHY DO I LIVE HERE?: On Muslim youth growing up on the front lines...
By Reva Jaffe Walter
Denmark has some of the most restrictive immigration and refugee policies in Europe. Muslim youth are at the front lines of...
Lessons from the Vietnam War
By John Marciano
Forty years after the American war in Vietnam ended in 1975, the central and most critical issue is the “struggle for memory”,...
Know Your History! Why Historical Awareness Makes You a Better Leader
By David De Cremer
The truism that you learn from the past can be applied in almost all aspects of life, even in business so...
What Do We Know About Mass Shootings?
By Frederic Lemieux
In this article, the author examines key elements defining mass shootings and the evolution of definitions over time. The article also scrutinises...
Revisiting The Anthropology of Trump: Ethnography and the Power of Culture
By Paul Stoller
Two days ago the election of Donald J Trump as our 45th President shocked millions of Americans. How could a man so...
Culture, Power and Applied Anthropology in a Corporate Setting
By Amitai Touval
Businesses rely on experts to intervene in situations in which organisational culture intersects with problems of power and control. While anthropologists are...
Recognition of Arbitral Awards in the US – US Courts Explore Two Sides of...
By Theresa Bowman and Charles Camp
Charles Camp and Theresa Bowman share their assessment of two important US District Court disagreements regarding the appropriate procedure...
Is Inequality a Clear Infringement of the Human Right to Health?
By Claudio Schuftan
Inequality in health is a morally significant fact in itself. Yet the current status of health inequality trends among and within countries...
“Empowering Women Makes Economic Sense”
Interview with James Zhan
Foreign investment holds enormous potential for women’s empowerment through the creation of formal jobs and business linkages – and this is...
A 100% Renewables Future: Green Utopia or Planetary Disaster?
By Steffen Böhm
Recent studies suggest that the global advocacy on converting to 100% renewable energy generation by 2050 is feasible. However, as people ignore...
Children – Civilization’s Future, Victims of Western Brutality
By Peter Koenig
The United Nations Universal Children's Day – 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that...
The Good, The Bad, and The Rational
By Deborah Heikes
Enlightenment thinkers tell us “all men are created equal” while simultaneously owning slaves, disenfranchising women, and supporting colonialism. The article offers solutions...
Black Elite: Reductio ad absurdum
By Houston A. Baker and K. Merinda Simmons
Reductio ad absurdum is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a “method of proving the falsity...
Gender Confessions and Postmodern Auto Da-Fé
By Julian Vigo
Transgender politics today function very similarly to auto da-fé where the subject must not only have something to confess, she is obligated...
Donald Trump and the World: Five Challenges
By Simon Reich
The election is finally over. It has resulted in the most stunning political upset in the modern era.
But that is really...
Enduring Gender Inequality in Politics: Where to from here?
By Emma Dalton
Women political leaders are no longer anomalies. But gender parity in politics is still a long way off. This paper considers why...
The Rise of Shenzhen and BYD – How a Chinese Corporate Pioneer is Leading...
By Taylor Ogan and Xiangming Chen
While the world is focusing on if the Chinese government can be a trusted and reliable leader in dealing...
Why the Media is a Key Dimension of Global Inequality
By Nick Couldry and Clemencia Rodriguez
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network....
Women Warriors: Sex, Violence, and the Media
By Kelly Oliver
Women’s violence is given more media attention than men’s because of the connection between sex and violence in our cultural imaginary. Stereotypes...
Learning to Live in the World Instead of Ruling It
By John Grant
So how should Americans live in this new world? That’s the crossroads we’re at, the question at hand. Some advocate a very...
2016 Elections: The Political Process as a Mechanism of Control
By Vince Montes
This article examines the US political process and the duopoly party system within a vast array of state strategies and elite manipulation....
US-China History and Where We Are Today
By Ann Lee
The direction of US-China relations under the Trump Administration has been a popular topic of speculation. While forecasts are by definition a...
Chile: The Capitalist Alternative to Venezuela in Latin America
By Rainer Zitelmann
Chile and Venezuela are the two counter-models in Latin America. Chile embodies the capitalist path, while Venezuela the socialist path. But Chile has...
How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism
By Andre Vltchek
The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents of...
Why Greater Gender Equality in Male-Dominated Sectors is Good For Women and Industry –...
By Tessa Wright
This article explores the working lives of women in manual and professional construction and transport occupations, finding that lesbians and heterosexual women...
How the Fear of Racial Dialogue Divides Us
By Kupiri Ackerman-Barger
Conversations about race have become more explosive and polarised – meaning that it is necessary to begin constructive interracial dialogue. For many,...
The Rise of the Petroyuan and the Slow Erosion of Dollar Hegemony
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
For seventy years, one of the critical foundations of American power has been the dollar’s standing as the...
Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
By Henry A. Giroux
Trump’s election has unleashed a brand of savage capitalism that not only has and will continue to have horrible consequences, but...
Japan’s “Comfort Women” Asian Protests and Imperial Japan’s Sexual Slavery
By Dan Steinbock
Recently, another Philippine statue commemorating Filipino “comfort women” has been removed. As international pressure is rising, it is time for Abe...
Selling Illusory Joy: Emotions, Big Data and the Coming Retail Renaissance
By Christopher Surdak and Ed King
Today the world is awash in massive amounts of context-rich data. Whether it’s GPS position information, social media posts,...
The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the...
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman
Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global humanitarian...
America at War with Itself
By Henry A. Giroux
As the United States has moved from a welfare to a warfare state, it has militarised every aspect of society. This...
America’s Shale Revolution and the Dangerous Myth of Energy Independence
By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
Proponents of energy independence enshrine America’s so-called “shale revolution” as a geopolitical game changer, enabling the United States...
How to Understand Syria’s “Proxy war” – And Who’s Fighting For Whom
By Simon Mabon
As another attempted ceasefire falls apart, the destruction of the Syrian people and state goes on. The country’s economy has been annihilated, and...
Chosen Leaders, Proven Failures And Political Debacles – OpEd
By James Petras
The concepts, symbols and signs of the ruling class determine who will be the political “choices” for leaders and officials. Political elites...
Why is Gentrification so Gay?
By Dana Collins
What exactly does “gay” have to do with gentrification? Looking at a case study of gay urban community in a global South...
A Magna Carta for Inclusivity and Fairness in the Global AI Economy
By Olaf Groth, Mark Nitzberg and Mark Esposito
Machine meritocracy is here. In this article, the authors elaborate on questions of inclusivity, fairness, and governance....
Duterte’s Global Impact
From the Editors
On 1st July 2016, Rodrigo Duterte will begin his term as the President of the Republic of the Philippines.
Mr Duterte has formidable...
Lesbian Culture Is Being Erased Because Investors Think Only Gay Men (And Straight People)...
By Marcie Bianco
Money is an ideology. It has value because we believe it does. Similarly, consumer confidence–the quintessential barometer for investors–holds incredible sway in...
Cuba – “The Equilibrium of the World” – and Economy of Resistance
By Peter Koenig
The Forth International Conference for “The Equilibrium of the World” took place in Havana., Cuba from 28 to 31 January 2019. The Conference,...
How the Brexit Referendum was Trumped: Personality, Protest and Patriotism
By Glyn Atwal and Douglas Bryson
In this article, the authors contend the electioneering style of what they label “Trumpism” was distinctly manifested and a...
After the Election: Don’t Panic, Think!
By Diana Johnstone
In 2016, the fundamentally undemocratic U.S. two-party system presented the public with the two most hated candidates in history. The choice was...
Food – Wars and Pharma – Trailblazing the Way to Human Demise
By Peter Koenig
In this article, Peter Koenig connects the dots and sheds light on how food, drugs, and bombs all play together in the...
Trump’s Other Wall
By Jack Rasmus
Trump brags about the ‘wall of money’ now flowing into the US from abroad–from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies–as the global economy...
Tokyo 2020 in the Face of Hardship
By Robert Hunziker
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics reflects a sense of optimism to the world community and has become a centerpiece of the Abe administration’s...
Popular Music as an Avenue for Coping and Mental Health Awareness
Popular music is a collective term for music that has a huge appeal to a large-scale audience from around the world. It has a...
Weaponising the World Bank and IMF – PressTV Interview
By Peter Koenig
Are these so-called financial institutions guilty of that, and how do they do it? – If so, this would point to the...
Usury in the 21st Century
By Richard Westra
Neoliberal deregulation commencing in the closing decades of the 20th century put into play a global financial system which operates as a...
Are We on the Verge of Becoming Western Money Slaves?
By Peter Koenig
Masked by economic “innovations”, the New World Order continues work its way to total world manipulation. In this article, Peter Koenig elaborates...
What the West Can Learn from the ASEAN Way
By Edgardo Angara
The rise of ASEAN shows how consensus-building, more than the rule of the majority, can help nations overcome religious and racial...
Security, Safety, Security! – Dictatorship by Democracy
By Peter Koenig
The other day, checking in at a European airport for an international flight – within about an hour it took to deposit...
The New Tyranny: A Preface to the 2016 Elections in the United States
By Timothy K. Kuhner
Democracy in the United States has been replaced by a rival form of government premised upon the power of wealth. Not...
Japan’s Politics is Opening Up to Women, But Don’t Expect a Feminist Revolution Yet
By Emma Dalton and Mari Miura
Three women have in recent months been appointed to politically powerful positions in Japan. But even as seeing...
Right to be Disconnected – The Wave to Catch On
By Jasna Čošabić
This paper analyses the possible influence of the French labour law reform – the “right to be disconnected” – on other countries and the benefits...
Wikipedia as Illustration of the Truth-Seeking Rationale for Freedom of Expression
By Mark Cenite
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
The Rise of the Corporatocracy
By Graham Vanbergen
Transnational corporations are wreaking havoc on financial, economic, social and ecological systems in a creeping colonisation of public life where just 147...
North Korea – Killer Sanctions Imposed by the Foremost Institution of Peace and Justice...
By Peter Koenig
The United Nations was created to safeguard peace, justice, and security at a time when the “world was in ruins”. In this...
Identity Politics: Diversion from the Growing Economic Crisis?
By Ghada Chehade
Despite the reality of ever-increasing economic despair – including, and perhaps especially, for minorities – no one is willing to talk about class...
Nuclear Power and Public Fear in the Era of Climate Change
By Scott Montgomery
To discuss nuclear power requires discussion of public anxiety, particularly fear of radiation. Such fear exaggerates levels of actual risk and poses...
Anti-Asian racism during coronavirus: How the language of disease produces hate and violence
By Paula Larsson
Self-isolation. Quaratine. Lockdown. The outbreak of COVID-19 and its subsequent dissemination across the globe has left a shock wave of disbelief and confusion...
Keeping Resilience in VUCA era: The Organization Should Learn from the Water’s Wisdom
By Weixu Ding and Jianhua Mao
The COVID-19 outbreak started at the end of 2019 that has hurt the world's economy, cultural exchanges, people's healthy...
Why every celebrity is suddenly obsessed with bitcoin
From A-list celebrities to social media personalities, the highly engaging nature of the bitcoin community is ever growing.
It wasn’t until recent years that the...
Assad Adviser Says We Are In A Time That Will Determine The Future Of...
By Brandon Turbeville
As the war in Syria continues to rage on, it is becoming more and more obvious that the battle taking place...
Sound as Popular Culture
By Jens Gerrit Papenburg and Holger Schulze
Sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analysed in an innovative way. From the roar...
NATO – 70th Anniversary of the Most Murderous – and Legal – Organization on...
By Peter Koenig
On 4th of April 2019 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) “celebrated” the 70th Anniversary of its murderous existence. This horror organization...
The Structural Changes in a Post-Pandemic Global Finance
By Chan Kung and Wei Hongxu
In many ways, COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the world. Under the presence of increased global trade...
Why another lockdown might be needed in February 2021
By Dr Peter Sivey and Dr James Gaughan
England recently emerged from a four-week lockdown into a series of tiered restrictions, and there is good...
Is this the end of trickle-down economics?
By Graham Vanbergen
The global pandemic has changed everything, highlighting the failures of economic policy that has dominated the Western world for the last 50...
Race and Caste: Worlds Apart But Closer Than You Think
By Rajesh Sampath
Combining historical knowledge and awareness of the present situation in America and India, one can deduce that racial and caste-based discrimination are...
Pay Secrecy
By Adrian Furnham
Even with today’s rapidly progressing society, there still exists a certain stigma towards the topic of salary or compensation. Employees have taken...
The New Global COVID-19 Threat: Misguided Policies, Virulent Strains, New Waves, and Lost Years
By Dan Steinbock
As the COVID-19 epicenter has moved from the Americas to India and poorer economies and G20 countries remain severely affected, the...
Growing up in lockdown: young people give their perspectives
By Professor Barry Percy-Smith
Throughout the pandemic, decisions made by adults have had a significant impact on all aspects of young people’s lives, yet...
Tokyo Olympics: no spectators is bad for business, but hosting could still bring long-term...
By Mike Duigan
Japanese Olympics minister Tamayo Marukawa has confirmed that, due to COVID, no spectators will be allowed to attend Tokyo 2020. This comes after initial announcements in...
Food and Fuel Excess: The Dark Side of America’s Exceptionalism
By Robert Paarlberg
By a wide margin, the United States leads the rich countries of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) both in...
The Frighteningly High Human and Financial Costs of War
By Rami G Khouri
The ravages and costs of war can persist for generations after the fighting and bombing stop.
We have always known that war...
Popular Culture and Social Justice: Desegregating Popular Culture for Equal Representation
By Yuya Kiuchi
Popular culture reflects who we are. Today, so-called “mainstream” popular culture excludes the minority population and their voices. In order to truly...
Brexit – How the British People were Hacked
By Graham Vanbergen
In today’s context, social engineering has now moved on – dramatically. It refers to the manipulation of people into performing actions they wouldn't normally...
“The COVID-19 Crisis” as an Opportunity for Introspection: A Multi-level Reflection on Values, Needs,...
By Simon L. Dolan, Mario Raich, Anat Garti and Avishai Landau
The current period of misery and even despair surround us. It is perhaps an opportune moment to reflect on...
As the world watches US election, the appeal of America is diminished
By Liam Kennedy
A US presidential election always draws intense worldwide interest, in part due to the spectacle, but also because the leadership of the...
Good governance is the missing prescription for better digital health care
By Linying Dong
Recently Ontario released its Digital First for Health strategy — aiming to further digitize health care and end the problem of overcrowded hospitals and “hallway...
Communities, Not Countries, are Best Equipped to Fix the World’s Economic Woes
By Peter Block
As anxieties about an economically unstable future grow globally, there is an alternative mindset much closer to home–literally just around the corner,...
Feed the Future of Agriculture with Vertical Farming
By Mark Esposito, Terence Tse, Khaled Soufani and Lisa Xiong
One big misconception is that produce grown from nontraditional methods is of lesser quality, and...
The Six Most Overrated Factors In Getting Rich
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
Oprah Winfrey came from a simple background, inherited nothing, didn’t study at an elite university, and probably only bought stocks long...
What psychology can tell us about why some people don’t wear masks – and...
By Helen Wall, Alex Balani and Derek Larkin
While the world is eagerly waiting for COVID-19 vaccines to bring an end to the pandemic, wearing...
Superforcasters: What Pandemic Planners Can Learn From The World’s Best Predictors
Experts got it catastrophically wrong, according to Dominic Cummings, UK prime minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser. Cummings has argued that the UK government’s official scientific...
Naturally Selected? Clues about Leadership from the Animal World
By Mark van Vugt
When thinking of a “successful executive”, we often use the description of an “alpha”, most of the time a male one,...
