First came the Panama Papers, then the BahamasLeaks, and now it’s the Paradise Papers. Journalists continue to shed light on and raise a public outcry over the offshore financial...
Politics
How the Super Rich Conquered London
Over cups of tea in his ramshackle London home, I chatted with a novelist. It felt a valuable opportunity, given his multiple fictional treatments of London, to discuss the city’s rapid changes that...
Who is More Powerful – States or Corporations?
Who holds the power in international politics? Most people would probably say it’s the largest states in the global system. The current landscape of international relations seems to affirm this...
Guns, Drones and Poison: the New Age of Assassination
Nobody has officially claimed responsibility for deploying the satellite-controlled machine-gun with “artificial intelligence” used to assassinate Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen...
The Taliban are Megarich – here’s where they get the money they...
The Taliban militants of Afghanistan have grown richer and more powerful since their fundamentalist Islamic regime was toppled by U.S. forces in 2001. In the fiscal year that ended in March 2020, the...
Coronavirus: Governments Knew a Pandemic was a Threat – Here’s...
Most people think or at least hope their government is doing a good job in the face of COVID-19, according to the polls. But there can be no doubt that governments around the world were ill-prepared...
What it’s Like to Lose a Presidential Election?
The American public may have only recently found out who won the presidential election last month. But now they know that Republican Donald Trump hasn’t been elected to a second term and that...
This Century Will See Massive Shifts in the Global Population...
A lot of the predictions we hear about the future involve a hot, crowded planet, one where we need some serious science to figure out how to feed everyone and control rising global temperatures...
Is Democracy Sacred?
When record numbers of votes were still to be counted and the election was far from being decided, President Trump falsely claimed victory and was calling for a halt to vote-counting. His...
Right-Wing Extremism: The New Wave of Global Terrorism
In April 2020, the United Nation’s Secretary-General, António Guterres, addressed members of the Security Council by warning them that the COVID-19 pandemic could threaten global peace and security...
Tweets Reveal Trump’s and Biden’s Competing Views of Masculinity...
Shortly after news networks called the presidential race in favour of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, posted the following tweet: Screen Shot, Twitter. More than a...
What Lies Behind the War in Tigray?
At the core of the current war between the Ethiopian central government and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front is the realignment of politics and the contest for political hegemony. In my view...
Prioritising Home Ownership Hurts Everyone – Owners as Well as...
The quest to own a home has become a mainstay in UK society. Successive governments of all stripes have prioritised home ownership over other forms of tenure. In August 2020, following Boris...
Peru ‘Coup’: Public Fury Forces Resignation of Interim President...
Peru is in deep crisis. The week-long regime of interim president Manuel Merino has been brought crashing down in the face of mass protests by tens of thousands of angry protesters. Three...
Saint or Sinner: Rawlings was Pivotal to Ghana’s Political and...
Twenty years after he left political office, probably nothing divides Ghanaians more than their opinions regarding Flight-Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings who has died. His lingering political...
The Foreign Policy Legacy that Donald Trump Leaves Joe Biden
Donald Trump promised the American people that he would “Make America Great Again” by pursuing an America First foreign policy as president. The pledge, made on his inauguration day, stemmed...
Biden’s Win isn’t the End of Trumpism. It is the Start of a...
After four long days, the Associated Press (AP) finally called America’s controversial and chaotic 2020 Presidential Election. Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected, to quote commentator...
‘New Zimbabwe’ Remains Elusive Three Years Later
Three years ago, Zimbabweans wildly celebrated what they saw as a change for the better, but now they regret this change that has sadly turned out to be a change for the worse as the ‘New Zimbabwe’...
Are Mercenaries the Answer to Mozambique’s Deadly Insurgency?
As Mozambique faces the growing security problem of an Islamist insurgency in the gas-rich northeastern province of Cabo Delgado, will the deployment of mercenaries solve – rather than exacerbate –...
How Emerging Threats are Changing Strategic Thinking About the...
Ever since nuclear weapons became a part of the USSR’s arsenal, American policymakers have strived to preserve what is known as “strategic stability”. According to Carnegie Moscow Centre, the term...