The Canadian Parliament is sometimes at the cutting edge of genocide recognition and human rights. It has labelled China’s treatment of the Uyghur’s as genocide but what about...
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Is It Time To Give Up On Consciousness As ‘The Ghost In The...
As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It’s that intimate sense of personal awareness we carry around with us, and the accompanying feeling of...
What Happens When Governments Deny Racism Exists?
Britain, apparently, does not have a problem with racism. The millions of Britons who experience racial slurs; discrimination at school; unequal access to jobs, housing and public services; and who...
Early Humans Used Fire To Permanently Change The Landscape Tens...
Fields of rust-colored soil, spindly cassava, small farms and villages dot the landscape. Dust and smoke blur the mountains visible beyond massive Lake Malawi. Here in tropical Africa, you can’t...
Reparations Would Shake Up American Capitalism – And That’s A...
Paying compensation to the descendants of slaves would not just right a historic wrong, it would transform the US economy for the better When I was a child, I used to visit my Viennese grandmother in...
One Incredible Ocean Crossing May Have Made Human Evolution...
Humans evolved in Africa, along with chimpanzees, gorillas and monkeys. But primates themselves appear to have evolved elsewhere – likely in Asia – before colonising Africa. At the time...
Black Swans And Other Deviations: Like Evolution, All Scientific...
Discussions about the nature of science and scientific theories are often confused by the outdated view that such theories are rendered false when anomalies arise. The notion of a scientific theory...
Drugs ‘Trilemma’: How To Halt The Deadly Trade While Still...
The deaths of 25 people in a police raid on drug gangs in Rio de Janeiro have brought the “war on drugs” in developing countries into sharp focus once again. The raid on a favela in the...
What’s Next For Cuba And The United States After Raul Castro’s...
Cuba’s Castro dynasty has officially ended. On April 16, 2021, Raul Castro – younger brother of longtime Cuban leader Fidel Castro – relinquished his position as first secretary of the Communist...
The UK Is Losing The Fight On Money Laundering But We Can Still...
Britain’s white-collar professionals would wince at the thought that they are enablers of global corruption. New research suggests that corruption in the UK is not only structural but cultural, too...
Rethinking Politics, Populism and Platforms
How can we create a progressive ‘popular force’ in an era of digital media platforms dominated by the innovations of right-wing populism? Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a powerful 18th-century polemicist and...
US-Backed Vaccine Patent Waiver: Pros And Cons Explained
The Biden administration has agreed to back a proposal to introduce a patent waiver for COVID vaccines. What are the pros and cons? The Biden administration has now agreed to back a proposal...
All Hail Q! The Forging of a Right-Wing Religion and its Extreme...
QAnon will be a threat to security for months, if not years, to come. The challenge of QAnon is only exacerbated by its growing synergy with organised religion as they seek to infiltrate wider...
Tucupi, A Spicy Sauce To Stop Amazon Deforestation
Stopping the deforestation that is advancing over the La Asunción reservation, in the department of Guaviare, Colombia, is becoming increasingly urgent. Nancy del Pilar Padua Palacios, an Indigenous...
Can SADC’s Military Intervention In Mozambique End Its Raging...
As an insurgency in northern Mozambique continues to worsen, SADC members recently resolved to intervene, raising fears that this intervention may not only worsen the situation but may even inflame...
In Russia, Navalny is Stealing Back the Agenda – by Putting His...
Last Wednesday, Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny declared a hunger strike – one that threatens to develop into a protracted struggle, including for improving conditions across Russia’s...
American Environmentalism’s Racist Roots Have Shaped Global...
The United States is having a long-overdue national reckoning with racism. From criminal justice to pro sports to pop culture, Americans increasingly are recognizing how...
The US is Paying for Letting Dark Money and Disinformation Run...
Billionaires such as Charles Koch spent a fortune convincing ordinary Americans to doubt everything – they shouldn’t be surprised that violence and division has followed in the wake of...
Nature Versus Nurture: How Modern Science Is Rewriting It
The question of whether it is genes or environment that largely shapes human behaviour has been debated for centuries. During the second half of the 20th century, there were two camps of scientists –...
Football in Europe is Being Transformed by US Private Equity...
Football is changing, again. Many fans who have spent years watching their teams, either live in a stadium or on the television, have long had to face the fact that their teams are (more often than...