Mahdi, Messiahs Plus A Fast Melting Planet – OpEd
Tropical cyclones, known as hurricanes and typhoons in other parts of the world, have caused huge damage in many places recently. The United States has been hit byHurricane Milton, within two weeks of...
View ArticleThe Saudi Religious Discourse: Moderation In The Face Of Extremism – OpEd
By Dr. Mohammed Al-Sulami The religious landscape in Saudi Arabia might appear somewhat ambiguous to some within Arab communities, necessitating a closer look at the characteristics, roles and recent...
View ArticleOn The Murder Of My Sister And Israel’s War On Hope – OpEd
“Your lives will continue. With new events and new faces. They are the faces of your children who will fill your homes with noise and laughter.” These were the last words written by my sister in a...
View ArticleAfrican Women’s Contributions To Peace And Security In The Great Lakes Region...
The African Union (AU) recognizes that women's participation and leadership must be considered a primary element in the quest for peace and security on the continent. In recognition of the importance...
View ArticleGeorgia: Watchdog Group Documents Use Of Political Violence And Intimidation...
By Brawley Benson (Eurasianet) -- A prominent rights group in Georgia is sounding the alarm over the use of political violence and intimidation during the run up to the country’s October 26...
View ArticleAre We Delivering New HIV Prevention Tools With Speed, Scale And Equity? – OpEd
Imagine failing 1.3 million times in a year: Failure to ensure that everyone has access to prevention options to protect oneself from HIV acquisition, has resulted in at least 1.3 million new HIV...
View ArticleIsrael’s War On The United Nations – OpEd
The United Nations is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and...
View ArticleIsrael Does What It Does; It Was Always Planned This Way – OpEd
With the assassination of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah and a number of the Hizbullah senior leadership in Beirut – expressly without prior warning being given to the Pentagon – Netanyahu fired the start gun...
View ArticleIndia: Terror Disrupted In Jharkhand – Analysis
By Deepak Kumar Nayak On October 10, 2024, two top cadres of the Tritiya Sammelan Prastuti Committee/Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TSPC/TPC) – a splinter group of the Communist Party of India...
View ArticleFrom High Noon To Steadfast Noon – OpEd
By Tariq Rauf As the ink dried on the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 to Nihon Hidankyo, the grassroots movement of the Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and...
View ArticlePakistan: Balochistan Boiling – Analysis
By Tushar Ranjan Mohanty As Pakistan gears up for the forthcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit scheduled for October 15 and 16 in Islamabad, in which nine full members, including...
View ArticleThe Paradox Of Land Disputes In Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts – Analysis
At the root of the tension in the Chattogram hill districts is the long-standing land disputes between the tribal and non-tribal people. The nature of land cultivation, ownership and possession is...
View ArticleWould Trump Abandon Taiwan? – Analysis
By David Sacks Donald Trump’s foreign policy convictions — that US allies and partners are free riders that do not contribute enough for their defence, that the outsized role the United States has...
View ArticleThe Largest Study Ever On UBI Was Just Conducted: The Results Are...
By Peter Jacobsen In the 2020 election, an interesting candidate made his way onto the scene for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Andrew Yang. Yang made a splash in particular for his...
View ArticleDoes The Central Bank Determine Interest Rates? – OpEd
By Frank Shostak Most experts agree that, through the manipulation of the short-term interest rates, the central bank can also determine the direction of the long-term interest rates. Some popular...
View ArticleChina’s Strategic Concerns Amid Bangladesh’s Political Turmoil – Analysis
By Antara Ghosal Singh China closely observed the high-level courtesies extended to Muhammad Yunus, head of the interim government of Bangladesh, by the United States (US), during the former’s visit...
View Article2024 Presidential Election In Sri Lanka – Analysis
By Gulbin Sultana In the Sri Lankan presidential election held on 21 September 2024, Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as the ninth Executive President. The challenge for the new president is to...
View ArticleProfessions And Occupations Of The Jews Of Morocco – Analysis
There has been a Jewish presence in Morocco for a very long time, (1) fuelled by the arrival of Jewish refugees who were victims of persecution throughout history, as well as by the conversion of the...
View ArticlePRC At 75: Did Hu’s Bailout Cause China’s Current Economic Woes? – Analysis
By Wang Yun Former Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Premier Wen Jiabao have been making headlines again this week, along with their massive fiscal stimulus package that kickstarted the Chinese...
View ArticleCan South Africa’s Prosecution Finally Achieve Independence Inder The GNU? –...
Efforts to secure the NPA’s operational and financial independence have stalled, exposing the justice system to bureaucratic bottlenecks and executive interference. By Martin Schönteich For decades,...
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