Ukraine

Help Ukraine Today – Save Europe’s Future!

On February 24, Russian troops invaded the territory of independent and free Ukraine and began bombing its cities. The attack took place in the...
Kyiv’s suburbs

Ukraine War: Evidence of Atrocities in Kyiv’s Suburbs Strengthens Case for a Harder Line...

orisbet By Dr Anastasiia Kudlenko When Ukraine learned on April 2 that the whole Kyiv region had been liberated from Russian troops, there was barely any...

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...
inauguration

Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive

By Daniel McNeil Over the past few months, I’ve been editing a book about soulful beliefs, practices and feelings that overflow from their religious and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Yemen – Appeal to President Putin

By Peter Koenig Dear President Putin, Yemen, a peaceful and extremely poor country is being slaughtered, literally slaughtered by the Saudis, with the full weapons, funding...

COVID vaccines: combining AstraZeneca and Pfizer may boost immunity – new study

By Professor Tracy Hussell Late last year, I asked: is it safe to have more than one type of COVID-19 vaccine? A trial has now addressed that question,...

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...

Internalised Racism in a World Filled with Color: The Case of Yellow-on-Yellow Racism

Racism has been in debate for so long, whether it actually exists, is justified or just downright play. However, in a world full of...

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...

Duped, Guilty Pleasure, Irony, and Camp: Consuming Fake News

By Roscoe Scarborough Drawing on forty in-depth interviews with self-proclaimed “bad TV” watchers about their media consumption, this research examines how people consume fake news....
David De Cremer

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...
US election 2020

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...

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...
Russian opposition

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...

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...
credit

Politicians challenge lenders over giving partial refunds

Some of the UK’s largest lenders are under fire from politicians and financial experts over how they are giving compensation to their historic customers. In...
2022 Headlines

Here are Some of the Political Events that Will Dominate Headlines in 2022

By Thomas Klassen Last year started out hopeful with the emergence of COVID-19 vaccines, but quickly proved to be a challenging year for governments and...

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...

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...

Will Africa Feed China? “Begging with a Golden Bowl” Food Security and Commercial...

By Deborah Brautigam In this excerpt from her book, ‘Will Africa Feed China?’, the author discusses China-Cameroon agricultural development and investment. On November 17, 2005, Yang...

Perceived as Normal

By Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman To be perceived as normal means to have power and privilege. Queer and feminist movements help us to see...

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...

The Coming War on China

By John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression...

Deconstructing And Dismantling The Rape Culture In India

By Parul Verma   Since the post-colonial era, India has witnessed a history of sexual assault, molestation, rape and violence against its women. On the rise...

Community Resistance In A Neoliberal Post-Truth Era: Is Self Care Becoming A Radical Political...

 By Ornette D Clennon In this article the author traces the colonial origins of “post-truth” politics, and ponders whether we are witnessing the final iteration...

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...
digital health care

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...

Life After Trump

By Boris Kagarlitsky Trump’s election is not just a separate random episode of current politics. It is also not an indicator of American exceptionalism. It...

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...

Zombie Politics

By Alexander Cohen and Chase Pielak Zombies mirror deep seated cultural fears of lack of control, lawlessness, and powerlessness. In the modern world, they are a...

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...

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...
rail travel

Five Innovations that Could Shape the Future of Rail Travel

By Saikat Dutta What will the future of public transport look like? The major projects being planned today, such as the UK’s HS2 high-speed rail...

Venezuela – The Bachelet Lie

By Peter Koenig When reading the Bachelet Report on Human Rights, following HR High Commissioner’s 3 day visit to Venezuela, published on Venezuela’s National Holiday,...
drones

Make Drones Sound Less Annoying by Factoring in Humans at the Design Stage

By Dr Antonio J Torija Martinez These days almost everyone has either flown a drone or listened to the nasty whining sound they produce. Although...

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...
cannabis

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...

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...

Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States

By Peter Koenig People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on...
trickle-down economics

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...
Vaccine Nationalism Is a Multilateral, Neocolonial Failure

Vaccine Nationalism Is a Multilateral, Neocolonial Failure

By Dr. Dan Steinbock In the coming months, vaccine nationalism is likely to compound COVID-19 economic damage and penalize more lives. It reflects the utter...
internet ban

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...

Conspiracy Theory – What Is It?

By Peter Koenig Being blamed for disseminating “conspiracy theories” and therefore being a conspiracy theorist, is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true...
Christmas Tree

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...

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...

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....

The Corona Crisis: The Rothschilds? Bill Gates? The Search for a Scapegoat Has Begun

By Rainer Zitelmann It is almost a law of human nature: In any crisis, natural disaster or epidemic, sooner or later people will begin to search...

Venezuela – A Tribute for Her Endless Pursuit of Democracy

By Peter Koenig Venezuela is again the shining light of Democracy – pushing ahead with the 6 December 2020 National Assembly (NA) elections – despite...

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...
Tokyo Olympics

The Olympics strive for political neutrality. So, how will they deal with surging athlete...

By Dr. Michelle O’Shea, Dr. Daryl Adair, Hazel Maxwell, and Dr. Megan Stronach The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has long tried to insulate itself from...

Unelectability, Sovereignty and Occupy

By Thomas Swann Highly popular candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn were deemed unelectable. In being described as unelectable, these politicians are being...

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...

Pandemic Debt and the Battle over MMT

By Graham Vanbergen Some governments around the world are making a strategic economic gamble to solve the problem of managing unsustainable debt. In a world...
Tim Cook and Facebook

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...
kpop

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....
work from home

Our Research Shows Home Working Didn’t Harm Mental Health at the Start of the...

By Jacques Wels One of the key changes to our daily lives brought about by the COVID pandemic was, for those able to do so,...
Lessons from around the world

Lessons from Around the World on Fighting COVID’s Second Wave

By Jimmy Whitworth As the northern hemisphere moves into winter, coronavirus rates are rising in parts of Europe and the USA. Experts are warning of...
world prediction

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....
mass shooting

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...

The Climate Crisis Dilemma

By Graham Vanbergen The climate crisis is now changing global finance – Graham Vanbergen asks the question do we want to pay for it now...

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,...
Paralympics

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...
Taylor Swift at Grammys 2021

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...

America’s first vampire was Black and Revolutionary – it’s Time to Remember Him

By Sam George In April of 1819, a London periodical, the New Monthly Magazine, published The Vampyre: A Tale by Lord Byron. Notice of its publication...

Approaching Global Shock Waves

By Graham Vanbergen The Covid-19 pandemic has reached every one of us and is a history-defining moment. It will act as a brake on unsustainable...

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...

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...

The Future of Film

By Holly Willis Cinema, the primary vehicle for storytelling in the 20th century, is in the midst of exciting transformation as the tools, practices, venues...

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...

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...

“Anti-Americanism” in the Philippines. President Duterte’s Subaltern Counter-Hegemony

By E. San Juan Jr.   Guerilla Incursions from the Boondocks “A howling wilderness” was what General Jacob Smith ordered his troops to make of Samar, Philippines....

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...

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”...

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...

Why People Trust Sharing Economy Strangers More Than Their Colleagues

By Mareike Möhlmann Trust is a crucial element in any relationship, not least when financial transactions are taking place. The rise of sharing economy platforms...

United Nations – Celebrating 70 Years of Human Rights – And Condoning 70 Years...

By Peter Koenig On 14 of May 1948 – Israel declared unilaterally her independence in a foreign land, called Palestine, supported by a UN Resolution sponsored...

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...

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...

“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...
artists and cultural industries

How to Help Artists and Cultural Industries Recover from the COVID-19 Disaster

By Louis-Etienne Dubois, David Gauntlett, and Ramona Pringle To say that 2020 has been rough for the cultural and creative industries is an understatement. More...
Defi

Decentralised finance calls into question whether the crypto industry can ever be regulated

By Dr Iwa Salami As stock markets around the world struggle through the pandemic, Bitcoin has seen a steady rise in its price. The...

Venezuela – Towards an Economy of Resistance

By Peter Koenig The Government of Venezuela called an international Presidential Economic Advisory Commission, 14-16 June, 2018 – to debate the current foreign injected economic...

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...
Social Influencers

Ten Reasons Why Majority Of Millennial Wants To Be Social Influencers

By Stella Lincoln Social media influencers have become significantly famous today. Here you become a blogger/influencer and have unique content; there, you gain thousands of...
climate change

Two Hundred Years Of Talking About Climate Change

By Joseph Mazur Back in the 1970s, when I was a graduate student at MIT, there were a few weeks of cafeteria conversations among earth...

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...
mental health

‘The Anniversary Effect’: What one full year in lockdown has done to our psyche

In every corner of the world, you are confronted with various media recapping the past year and dissecting exactly how the pandemic has radically...

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...

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”...

American Millennials and the World

By A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner The 9/11 attacks have been the defining event of the American millennial generation. The article discusses how American...

Dogged by Charges of Racism Where is Trump’s Concern for American Workers?

By Kim Petersen Hillary Clinton described half of Donald Trump’s base as “deplorables” holding racist attitudes. Indeed, many of Trump’s policies do negatively target people...

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...