UN Found Wanting By Global Leaders – OpEd
The UN tasked with maintaining international peace is repeatedly failing to ensure world peace. UN Security Council is the UN’s most powerful political body. The UN Charter, Article 2(4) enunciates:...
View ArticleNorway: Northern Lights Facilities Completed And Ready To Store CO2
TotalEnergies and its partners, Equinor and Shell, announced Thursday the completion of the CO2 receiving and storage facilities of Northern Lights Joint-Venture in Norway. The facilities consist in a...
View ArticleIndia Woos Addu Islanders In The Maldives For A Strategic Foothold – Analysis
Aim is to stem China's expansion in the Western Indian Ocean India is assiduously wooing the people of the Addu atoll in the Maldives to get a foothold in the strategic island to be able to stem...
View ArticleLeveraging Digital Innovation – Book Review
The book “Leveraging Digital Innovation” presents ten concrete case studies, illustrating both the challenges and successes of integrating digital innovations across various industries. It focuses on...
View ArticleClimate Change: Heat, Drought, And Fire Risk Increasing In South America
The number of days per year that are simultaneously extremely hot, dry, and have a high fire risk have as much as tripled since 1970 in some parts of South America. The results are published in a...
View ArticleESO Telescope Captures Most Detailed Infrared Map Ever Of Our Milky Way
Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA...
View ArticleMysterious Orca Group Near Chile Tracked Down, Revealing Newly Discovered...
Off the coast of Chile, in waters filled with krill and anchovy by the Humboldt Current system, live an elusive and little-known population of orcas. Thanks to citizen science and years of dedicated...
View ArticlePresence Of Bacteria In Soil Makes Flowers More Attractive To Pollinators
Bacteria that live in soil and help roots fix nitrogen can boost certain plants’ capacity to reproduce, according to an article published in the American Journal of Botany describing a study of this...
View ArticleBiden’s Executive Order: Backdoor To Gun Control Or Campaign Event? – OpEd
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Thursday, September 26, to put a stop to gun violence and heal the trauma it has caused in America – a task much easier said than done. The president...
View ArticleUS Inflation Remained Below Target In August – OpEd
By William J. Luther When the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to lower its federal funds rate target last week and thereby begin the process of un-tightening monetary...
View ArticleWhat Iran’s Regime Tries To Achieve By Kicking The Can Down The Road – OpEd
The principle reason Iran’s regime is not reformable is mainly because according to the regime’s own constitution, the Supreme Leader is above the law. Everything must pass through the Supreme...
View ArticleSri Lanka: A Political And Policy Tightrope Awaits New President – Analysis
By Devaka Gunawardena and Ahilan Kadirgamar Anura Kumara Dissanayake has emerged victorious in Sri Lanka’s presidential election, held on 21 September 2024. Dissanayake, who obtained 42.3 per cent of...
View ArticleMurray Rothbard On Forced Fluoridation – OpEd
Economist and philosopher Murray Rothbard was my mentor and friend. He died in 1995 but his writings continue to inform the world. As with other such great thinkers, the question in the midst of a...
View ArticleThe Fog Of War Is Lifting In Ukraine – OpEd
The alignments of the endgame in the Ukraine conflict are surfacing as never before. If much remains in the realm of speculation still, that is largely due to the inflection point concerning the...
View ArticleThe Lobito Corridor: Washington’s Answer To Belt And Road In Africa – Analysis
The ascent of China’s economic influence in Africa is undeniable, with Chinasurpassingthe United States as the continent’s largest trade partner in 2009 and more recentlyquadruplingthe US-Africa trade...
View ArticleAre Rwandan Troops Becoming Cabo Delgado’s Main Security Provider? – Analysis
In three years, the Rwandan contingent in Mozambique has grown dramatically and expanded its operations across five districts. By Borges Nhamirre In July 2021, around 1 000 personnel from the Rwanda...
View ArticleRussia Legalizes Cryptocurrency Mining To Circumvent Western Sanctions –...
By Luke Rodeheffer In August, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation formally legalizing cryptocurrency mining (RBC, August 8). The law establishes a registrar, to which each mining...
View ArticleAn Armed Russian Drone Shakes Latvia’s Defense System – Analysis
By Māris Andžāns (FPRI) -- On the morning of September 7, an armed Russian kamikaze unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landed in Gaigalava parish in Eastern Latvia. The UAV was a Shahed 136-type drone of...
View ArticleIran Cofirms IRGC General Killed In Beirut
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps confirmed that its senior commander Brigadier General Abbas Nilforooshan was killed along with the secretary general of Hezbollah in an Israeli airstrike in...
View ArticleUkrainian Drones Reach Deeper Into Russia As Biden Says Kyiv ‘Will Win This War’
(RFE/RL) -- Ukraine's military reported that heavy fighting continued on September 29 following a night of air strikes that included penetration deeper inside Russia by Kyiv's drone arsenal, while...
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