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1. Eric Walberg

(Contacts / Writers)

... German, Spanish and Arabic and are accessible at his website ericwalberg.com. Walberg is author of Postmodern Imperialism Geopolitics and the Great Games (2011). A version of this article appeared at EricWalberg.com. ...

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2. Aetiology of Subversion: The Delhi Riots of 2020

(OPINION)

... to organise their exodus although some such initiative is now desperately required to rescue the remaining population who will otherwise disappear by forced conversions or by other means. Criticism of ...

Created on 13 October 2020

3. 'Fine Words Butter No Parsnips' — Behind Boris Johnson’s So-Called Liberalis

(OPINION)

... made a deliberate decision to pursue the hardest possible version of Brexit, eliminating any possible hope of maintaining individual freedoms. As a result, UK citizens have been stripped of rights to travel, ...

Created on 15 January 2021

4. The Politicisation of “White Victimhood” Nothing New to Trump’s Presidency

(OPINION)

... of English at Arizona State University The original version of this article entitled ‘Trump tapped into white victimhood – leaving fertile ground for white supremacists’ was published on The Conversation ...

Created on 14 January 2021

5. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

... version of Ronald Reagan, but with a totally different agenda and vision. His basic idea is not “America First” but “America Alone”. He has pushed Reagan’s idea of bilateralism versus multilateralism to ...

Created on 13 January 2021

6. Peace Prize for Humanitarian Work – Debt Dims Recovery – Better Times for Mental Health Groups

(Africa)

... are often no other existing programs to replace the services. Past versions of the global gag rule have shown that the policy does not reduce the number of abortions and has instead increased unsafe ...

Created on 28 December 2020

7. COVID-19 Worsens Human Rights Situation in Southeast Asia

(COVID-19)

... – 27 December 2020] The author is Director of the Asia Pacific Programme at Chatham House. This article first appeared on EASTASIAFORUM on 17 December 2020. An extended version of this article appeared ...

Created on 27 December 2020

8. Time to Ditch the Technocratic, Mechanical Vision of Government

(OPINION)

... Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield and David Blunkett is Professor of Politics in Practice at the University of Sheffield. The original version of this ...

Created on 19 December 2020

9. Welcome to the Anthropocene

(OPINION)

... – 17 December 2020] * Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams are both professors of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an ...

Created on 17 December 2020

10. The Southern Ocean an Ocean Like No Other

(Climate Action)

... is Associate Professor in Ocean Physics at National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand and Huw Griffiths is Marine Biogeographer on the British Antarctic Survey. The original version ...

Created on 10 December 2020

11. Effects of Global Warming Dramatic in the Arctic

(Climate Action)

... Director of ArcticNet at Université Laval. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views sourced from the academic and research community ...

Created on 10 December 2020

12. Disrupting the Atlantic’s Ecosystem Can Have Far-Reaching Effects

(Climate Action)

... Sciences at Wesleyan University and Pascal Le Floc’h is Maître de Conférences, Economiste, Université de Bretagne Occidentale. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an ...

Created on 10 December 2020

13. Pacific Ocean’s Delicate Ecology Under Threat

(Climate Action)

... Perikanan dan Ilmu Kelautan, IPB University and Mirjam van der Mheen is Fellow at the University of Western Australia. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent ...

Created on 09 December 2020

14. The Rich Historical Archive That Is the Indian Ocean

(Climate Action)

... African Literature at the University of Witwatersrand and Charne Lavery is Lecturer and Research Associate at the University of Pretoria. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation ...

Created on 09 December 2020

15. US Policing and Militarism Perpetuate Sexual Violence

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Olivia Pace* The original version of this article was published on Waging Nonviolence and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. PORTLAND, Oregon ...

Created on 07 December 2020

16. Children Born of War Remain Invisible Victims of Sexual Violence

(Africa)

... both at the University of Portsmouth. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and viewsAFR sourced from the academic and research community ...

Created on 02 December 2020

17. “All Time Low” for Democracy in Cambodia

(Asia-Pacific)

... is not positive. [IDN-InDepthNews – 30 November 2020] * Rhona Smith is Professor of International Human Rights at Newcastle University Law School. The original version of this article was published on ...

Created on 30 November 2020

18. Stunning Lack of G20 Responsibility for the World’s Poor

(Poverty)

... his feat in 2024. I apologise for this diversion. The real goal of this article is to show the stunning lack of responsibility of the leaders who met virtually , and besides making totally ritual declarations ...

Created on 25 November 2020

19. Legacy of Late Ghana President: A View from Nigeria

(OPINION)

... for office as civilian president his appalling conversion of Ita Oko an Island on the outskirts of Lagos into a black site, a mini forerunner of Guantanamo and his iron-fist in quelling student’s protests, ...

Created on 19 November 2020

20. Kilimanjaro Threatened by Fires Which Shaped It

(OPINION)

... Plant Systematics at Bayreuth University, Germany. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research ...

Created on 15 November 2020

21. The Evil That Men Do Lives After Them

(OPINION)

... Adviser to INPS-IDN. He is co-founder of Inter Press Service (IPS) news agency and its President Emeritus. This is an edited version of the original article. Photo: Screenshot of President Trump delivering ...

Created on 09 November 2020

22. Biden Is A Veteran Friend of Israel But Against Settlement

(Middle East)

... thing about you is you’ve never asked us to fight for you. But I promise you, if you were attacked and overwhelmed, we would fight for you, in my view There are various versions of that meeting. According ...

Created on 07 November 2020

23. The US Pastor Who Preaches Climate Change Denial

(OPINION)

... at the University of Glasgow. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views sourced from the academic and research community and delivered ...

Created on 19 October 2020

24. COVID-19: Europeans Can Learn from Developing Countries

(Health & Well Being)

... Ethics Advisor at the University of Oxford and Ifeanyi M. Nsofor is Senior Atlantic Fellow in Health Equity at George Washington University. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation ...

Created on 18 October 2020

25. Agribusiness Interests Hijack 2021 UN Food Systems Summit

(Food security, nutrition & sustainable agriculture)

... of ineffective input subsidies for seeds and fertilizers, and immediately cease the conversion of forests and farmland into large-scale monoculture plantations. Governments and international institutions ...

Created on 14 October 2020

26. Sri Lanka Bans Cow Slaughter, But Has Yet to Pass Animal Welfare Bill

(Asia-Pacific)

... stray cats and dogs are poisoned, and captive elephants (often in temples) are severely bruised due to heavy chaining. Thus, social critic Shenali Waduge believes that the cow slaughter ban is a diversionary ...

Created on 10 October 2020

27. Beware the Dangers of "Prozac Leadership

(OPINION)

... at Lancaster University Management School. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an  independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community ...

Created on 10 October 2020

28. Three Women: Stories of Indian Trafficked Brides

(South Asia)

... of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views sourced from the academic and ...

Created on 03 October 2020

29. The Boons and Banes of Technology – Is It Really Making Things Better?

(OPINION)

... the last few decades, and several of them within the last 20 years. Some of these problems have older antecedents, but the newer versions are worse. Climate change, for example, has been underway since ...

Created on 25 September 2020

30. Is Technology Really Making Things Better?

(OPINION)

... the last few decades, and several of them within the last 20 years. Some of these problems have older antecedents, but the newer versions are worse. Climate change, for example, has been underway since ...

Created on 24 September 2020

31. UN Releases Special 2020 Broadcast Calling for Collective Action

(Health & Well Being)

... Boy, and a new version of a previous UN performance by multi-Grammy award-winning artist Beyoncé UN Secretary-General António Guterres and UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed Julia Roberts is ...

Created on 20 September 2020

32. COVID-19: U.S. Deaths and Infections Several Times Higher Than Those in China

(OPINION)

... the blame on China is pure diversion. China contained the virus. The U.S. has totally failed to do so. The enormous number of U.S. deaths were ‘Made in Washington,’ not ‘Made in China.’ Measuring the ...

Created on 14 September 2020

33. Forest Degradation Is Outpacing Full Deforestation in the Amazon

(OPINION)

... original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered direct to the public – under ...

Created on 12 September 2020

34. An Increasingly Crowded Ocean Calls for a New Role for Transnational Corporations

(OPINION)

... is Research Fellow in Ocean Management at Stockholm University. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic ...

Created on 12 September 2020

35. Breaking the Law over Brexit: How the UK is Playing Dirty in EU Talks

(OPINION)

... and Business, University of York. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and ...

Created on 10 September 2020

36. Distinguished Diplomat Kohona Tipped to be Sri Lanka's Ambassador to Chin

(Asia-Pacific)

... Beijing’s rivals are trying to stem its further inroads saying that the Chinese projects have landed Sri Lanka in a debt trap. The US is coming up with its own version of Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Diplomacy. ...

Created on 06 September 2020

37. What Happens to the Plastic the UK Recycles?

(OPINION)

... and Strategy, University of Portsmouth. The original version of this article was published on The Conversation – an independent source of news and views sourced from the academic and research community ...

Created on 04 September 2020

38. Top Civil Rights Lawyer Questions Whether USA Gov can contain Trump and GOP Power Grabs

(OPINION)

... a charismatic leader.” 10. They embrace extreme nationalism. “Hitler’s strident appeals to the base invoked an extreme version of German nationalism, extolling a brilliant German past and promising to ...

Created on 01 September 2020

39. From Lotus Goddess to Holy Basil: Transnational Racio-scapes in US Presidential Politics

(USA and Canada)

... Vaishnavism, also allegedly the basis of the Hare Krishna movement, which arrived in New York in 1965. Gabbard’s father, a practicing Catholic, encountered fragments of the Hare Krishna movement’s version ...

Created on 21 August 2020

40. Feminism in The Spotlight at South African Book Fair 2020

(Quality Education)

... bodies filter their life experiences and can be tools for conformity or resistance. “Feminism was the portal through which I stepped into the highway version of myself,” said Dr Alma-Nalisha Cele. ...

Created on 18 August 2020

41. Chronic Underfunding of Public Health and Racist Policies Responsible for the Impact of COVID-19 in the US

(OPINION)

... the world are an inescapable consequence of our for-profit, pervasively oligopolistic health care system. The problems of a for-profit health care system are exacerbated by the diversion of resources and ...

Created on 16 August 2020

42. 5G Is Only One of Many Battle Arenas in U.S. Tech War in Which China Holds the Cards

(OPINION)

... version of Android, and its app store—App Gallery—as a replacement for the Google Play Store. How its users will cope without the Google Play Store remains to be seen. It would depend on how many of the ...

Created on 14 August 2020

43. Looking Back at the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Nuclear Attacks on 75th Anniversary

(OPINION)

... 2000. Personal views are expressed here. The following is an expanded version of comments made at the event, 'The 75th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing and the United Nations In the Time of COVID-19: Where ...

Created on 06 August 2020

44. Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the 'Global Economy' Is Not Coming Bac

(OPINION)

... is unlikely to presage a reversion to the status quo ante. Regionalization and multipolarity will be the order of the day going forward. Many will regard these developments as chiefly driven by geopolitical ...

Created on 31 July 2020

45. HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 Require Global Solidarity

(OPINION)

... poses a challenge to the HIV response, in that it affects the achievements gained thus far as a result of service disruption, constrained supply chain systems and diversion in financing of the response. ...

Created on 29 July 2020

46. Deployment of Federal Troops to Democratic-Run Cities Is Extreme Even for Trump

(USA and Canada)

... as the intruder enters her home, and we are only left to imagine the horror of what he does to her as the words “You won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America” appear on the screen. In this dystopian version ...

Created on 24 July 2020

47. Kenya Having Another Go at Passing a Reproductive Rights Bill

(OPINION)

... the look of it, this aspect of the bill has been watered down. For example, it is more abstinence-focused than the earlier version. This flies in the face of research findings that this approach denies ...

Created on 15 July 2020

48. Trump and Senator Cotton Embrace Enhanced Testing & Face Kilotons of Surprises

(OPINION)

... bang and assert dominance. A nuclear test would be done in the name of science. It is particularly ironic that the Trump administration would have an interest to test, given its aversion to scientific ...

Created on 14 July 2020