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,...
Confucian Culture and the International Trend of Legalising Same-Sex Marriage
By Karen Lee
Steeped in centuries-old Confucian family order, China appears to be an unlikely place for same-sex marriage. A growing sense of activism, however,...
“Comfort Women” and History
By Dan Steinbock
Empirical evidence for the truth-seeking rationale for freedom of expression – the assertion that truth prevails in a free marketplace of ideas...
Buzzfeed News: Sad Demise of a Clever, Innovative Site that Led the Way in...
By Sean Dodson
Buzzfeed News, once a shining star of digital journalism, has announced it will shut its award-winning news division for good, laying off about 60...
Transforming to Hybrid Work: The Importance of Cloud-Based Solutions
By David De Cremer
With the arrival of the pandemic, a new way of working also arrived: working remotely. Companies were forced to keep their...
Mass Shootings in the US Have Risen Sharply in 2020 – Why?
By Craig Jackson
Despite the US response to the coronavirus pandemic using sporadic stay-at-home orders and lockdowns, as at November 26 2020 there have been...
Is a Cashless Society Realistic? The Rural Challenge to the Post-Pandemic “New Normal”
By Aaron van Klyton and Juan Fernando Tavera-Mesías
Mobile banking and digital payments (“m-payments”) were already core features of government development policies aimed at beefing...
Cannabis: the problem with defining products around THC content
By Jessica Steinberg
Cannabis policy is undergoing a global revolution. Around the world, laws are changing. In the US, there are now 15 states in which cannabis...
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...
Trump’s Next Target: World Trade Organization
By Dan Steinbock
In the past few months, the Trump White House has started trade wars against its major trade partners, particularly China, and...
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...
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...
Is Crypto Trading Like Forex Trading?
Both fiat money and digital tokens are called currency, but comparing forex trading to crypto trading is like comparing apples with freight trains. In...
Cannabis: How it Affects Our Cognition and Psychology – New Research
By Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley, Martine Skumlien, and Tianye Jia
Cannabis has been used by humans for thousands of years and is one of...
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...
How to Deal With Visual Misinformation Circulating in the Israel-Hamas War and Other Conflicts
By Paul Morrow
In the three weeks since war began between Israel and Hamas, social media has been taken over with images and stories of...
Rebuilding Infected Economies: Without Deficits, Debt or Taxes
By Dr Shann Turnbull
European national and local governments possess the power to rebuild their infected economies with self-liquidating “Stamp Scrip” money. This could be achieved...
Playing Genocide Politics: The Zenz-Xinjiang Case
By Dr Dan Steinbock
Recently, the Trump and Biden administrations have initiated a genocide case against China. Like during the Cold War, some European leaders...
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...
The Iran Sanctions Act by US Congress – Versus the Multilateral Iran Accord
By Dan Steinbock
In a broad interview with Iran’s leading international news agency and international daily, Dr. Steinbock takes a critical look at the at...
A Change Must Come: Race and Reform in Workplace Law
By Phillis H. Rambsy
Racial minorities seeking legal recourse for racial discrimination in the workplace often find that, if the law offers any remedies at all,...
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,...
Nigeria’s Twitter ban could backfire, hurting the economy and democracy
By Jeff Conroy-Krutz
bbetra.com
Nigeria’s decision to suspend Twitter indefinitely could backfire for the government and cost the country economically in terms of new investments into...
International Law in a Multipolar World
By Charles Camp And Theresa Bowman
From a bipolar world marked by the Cold War between the two major powers, the United States and the...
Race Against Race
From the Editors
Dubois said that the enduring problem of the 20th Century would be race.
He probably meant that the enduring problem for the...
Facing the Shadow of Colonialism in Trump’s America
By Nozomi Hayase
From Muslim bans to attacks on LGBTQ communities and immigrants, the Trump presidency is regressing civil society with a colonial hierarchy. In...
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...
COVID Vaccines Rollout are Starting to Arrive – Here’s How Everyone will Get Them
By Sarah Schiffling and Dr Liz Breen
The first batch of COVID vaccine has arrived in the UK, and the NHS has embarked on the largest...
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...
The Plight of Children in a Neoliberal World
By Peter Koenig
The NYT wrote yesterday, Christmas Day, that an 8-year old Guatemalan boy died in US Border Control custody. The circumstances are not...
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...
Decentralised Finance and UNSDGs – How should regulators respond?
By Dr Iwa Salami
This article looks at what Decentralised Finance (DeFi) is and its potential to facilitate the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development...
The Dark Plight of Immigrants in the Racist Era of Trump
By Alvaro Huerta
This essay argues that President Donald J. Trump represents an existential threat to immigrants in the United States. Trump’s immigration rhetoric and...
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 Covid-19 Global Pandemic: How Africa Should Respond
By Mills Soko and Mzukisi Qobo
Global Context
The coronavirus global pandemic has caused significant harm to the global economy. With two-thirds of the world’s population located in developing...
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...
Snowden – Just a Clever Ruse? Propaganda, Empire’s One of the Key Strategic Weapons
By Peter Koenig
This is not about Snowden, the movie. This is about Ed Snowden, the by now 33-year-old NSA whistleblower and hero for hundreds...
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...
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...
Ukraine War: What Are The Risks That Russia Will Turn To Its Nuclear Arsenal?
By Mark Webber and Nicole Fasola
Is Russia now led by someone who would contemplate using nuclear weapons without any great concern? Over Ukraine, Vladimir Putin...
The Dark Forces behind American Insurrectionists
By Dr Dan Steinbock
On January 6, 2021, a mob of white supremacists stormed the U.S. Capitol, presumably to overturn Trump's defeat. Their final goal...
The Problems of Unfree Trade: Various Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
By Binoy Kampmark
How free is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? Covering a region spanning 40 percent of the world’s GDP and 12 signatory states, an argument...
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...
9 reasons you can be optimistic that a vaccine for COVID-19 will be widely...
By William Petri
As fall approaches rapidly, many are wondering if the race for a vaccine will bear fruit as early as January 2021.
I...
Cheap and Clean: Attitudes to Energy in a USA Concerned with Climate Change
By Stephen Ansolabehere and David Konisky
In light of the recent agreement between the US and China to cut greenhouse gas emissions, US climate policy...
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...
Agile Anarchy is the Name of the Future
By Guido Stein and Alberto Barrachina
To build agile organizations you must understand human relationships
1. Change> Transform Your Approach to Transformation
This technical note explores some...
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...
Turkey-Syria Earthquakes: a Seismologist Explains What Has Happened
By Jenny Jenkins
An extremely large earthquake has occurred in the southeast of Turkey, near the border with Syria. Data from seismometers which measure shaking...
Yemen – Prisoner Swap and What May be Behind it.
By Peter Koenig
Background
The fourth batch of Yemeni detainees has arrived the in Sana’a as part of the largest prisoner swap between the country’s warring...
The 2016 Elections: “The Bad Losers” and What They Fear Losing
By Diana Johnstone
If the 2016 presidential campaign was a national disgrace, the reaction of the losers is an even more disgraceful spectacle. It seems...
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...
How Green is your Christmas Tree?
By Professor Ian D. Rotherham
There’s no way around the fact that Christmas has a large carbon footprint, from the travelling we do to the presents...
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,...
On the Symphony of AI and Humans in the Work Context
By David De Cremer
“AI and human employees will form the teams of the future and will have to be led in such ways that...
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...
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...
Russian ‘Cyberattacking’ – When the Most Flagrant Lie Becomes the Truth
By Peter Koenig
Democracy, what was left of it, has been gradually eviscerated throughout the world by Washington and its handlers. The New Future over...
Brexit and Immigration: The Looming Labour Market Crisis
By Erica Consterdine
With Brexit little more than a year away, one of the most pressing issues remains unresolved – immigration. Policymakers are grappling with how...
Why Gender Inequality Persists
By Mary Evans
Gender inequality persists throughout the world. Even if the forms of that inequality differ from those of the past, there are still...
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...
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...
How Cryptocurrency Can Help Non-profits and Investors Thrive in the ‘New Normal’
By Thomas Cauley
A decade ago nonprofit leaders were talking about the ways donors could change the world through social media. Today we’re talking about cryptocurrency.
The...
Technology to Fracture Global Trade and Relations
By Graham Vanbergen
The article "Data Overtakes Oil as Leading (Geopolitical) Global Commodity" published three years ago became the subject of much debate and deliberation....
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...
Capitalism in Intensive Care
By Graham Vanbergen
As the COVID crisis grips the world economy, Graham Vanbergen concludes that capitalism itself has suffered a near-fatal heart attack and that the...
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...
Tokyo 2020: Does the Paralympics Empower Disabled People?
By Christopher Brown
The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are being used as a catalyst for a new global campaign aimed at removing discrimination faced by disabled people. Entitled...
ICC debacles – and the Philippines
By Dr Dan Steinbock
After the Philippine withdrawal from the ICC, the battlelines against the Duterte government are politicized – and messy.
In the first half...
Cosmopolitan Conceptions? Biopolitics and Emiratisation in Dubai’s IVF “Reprohub”
By Marcia C. Inhorn
Despite the political tumult in the Arab world, Dubai continues to draw medical tourists from around the globe, including infertile “reprotravellers”...
Beyond The Story: BTS Biography is a Humanising, Literary Portrayal of K-pop’s World-leading Stars
By Jenessa Williams
In a climate of ever-increasing competition, it’s a real feat when any band makes it to their tenth anniversary bigger than ever....
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...
Global Economy on the Brink as Davos Crowd Parties On
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
At Davos, Switzerland every year the global capitalist elite gather to party…and to prepare for the year ahead. This year more than...
Jerusalem – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?
By Peter Koenig
When President Trump on 6 December 2017 declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to where the US Embassy shall...
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...
The Most Comprehensive Predictions Guide to 2021
By Graham Vanbergen
The year 2020 will inevitably be etched into our memories no matter how forgettable we want it to be. It was a...
Ukraine: Russian Opposition To The Invasion Is Giving Putin Cause For Alarm
By Ben Noble
Vladimir Putin’s military aggression against Ukraine is meeting more opposition from Ukrainians than he expected. The Russian president also saw widespread condemnation of his military’s...
Is a Languages Strategy Essential for Britain’s Economy to Prosper Post Brexit?
By Gabrielle Hogan-Brun
Britain hopes to draw on the trade relationships of the former Commonwealth to grow its economy post Brexit. Could this place too...
US Election 2020: How the Rival Candidates Have Used Music in Their Campaigns
By Adam Behr
A 74-year-old man dancing half-heartedly and without much rhythm to the Village People’s YMCA while a host of other people complain about...
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...
The Rise of Dark Web Design: How Sites Manipulate You into Clicking
By Daniel Fitton
The vast majority of websites you visit now greet you with a pop-up. This annoying impediment to your seamless web browsing is...
The Story of Trump’s Perilous Iran Escalation
By Dan Steinbock
The Trump assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani reflects regime change efforts - withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, new...
Five Things That Explain Donald Trump’s Stunning Presidential Election Victory
By Anthony J. Gaughan
A populist wave that began with Brexit in June reached the United States in stunning fashion on Tuesday night. In one...
What You Need to Know About Tim Cook and Facebook
"If a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve...
China’s Pioneering Effort to Contain Virus Outbreak Economic and Human Costs of the New...
By Dan Steinbock
Chinese government has used strong measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. The human costs and economic impact...
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....
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...
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...
The Outlook For The Global Economy
By Graham Vanbergen
It really would be nice to think that Putin’s attack on Ukraine will be short-lived and the world begins its recovery from the...
Financialisation, Neoliberalism and Economic Crises in the Advanced Economies
By Dr Kalim Siddiqui
Financialised capitalism emerged in the advanced economies during the last four decades. It has opened wider avenues to wealth formation and speculation,...
What moments of uncertainty mean for war – and peace – between global rivals
By Douglas B. Atkinson
The coronavirus pandemic has inflamed existing tensions between China and the US. China blamed the US for spreading the virus across international...
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...
North Korea – an Agent of Peace?
By Peter Koenig
The false alarm on a ballistic missile attack on Hawaii last Saturday from North Korea did not help the Peace Talks which...
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...
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...
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...
Italy and France need more capitalism
By Dr. Rainer Zitelmann
The coronavirus pandemic is not the reason for France’s and Italy’s current poor economic health, it simply exposes pre-existing conditions that...
What Are The World’s Most Traded Currencies?
The forex market is a deceptively complex and busy entity, with an estimated 170 currencies available within the space.
However, not all of these are...
6 Discussions To Have With Your Employees When Coming Back To Office
By David Kelly
The current COVID-19 situation drastically changed the way we perceive a traditional workplace and remote working. Due to government-imposed restrictions and measurements,...
From Taylor Swift to BTS: Grammys 2021 Was a Much-needed Spectacle of Artistic Glory
The 2021 Grammy Awards held last March 14 was, by all means, unconventionally spectacular on all accounts. From showcasing household names like Taylor Swift...