The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British prime minister’s former chief...
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Bolsonaro Falters as his COVID Disaster Becomes Impossible to...
Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options. The increasingly isolated Brazilian president faces a destabilising political crisis that appears to have alienated his supporters, as well as a pandemic...
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...
Prehistoric Cave Painters Might Have Been ‘High’ On Oxygen...
Long before the emergence of writing, palaeolithic cave paintings represent the very first examples of human visual culture. They provide a shadowy glimpse of a prehistoric world in which signs were...
India’s Staggering COVID Crisis Could Have Been Avoided. But The...
India reported 314,000 new cases of COVID-19 on April 22, the highest-ever infection tally recorded by any country on a single day. Many hospitals across the country are unable to cope with...
EU Urged to Take Action Against ‘Dark Money’ Targeting Women’s...
Funding for right-wing ‘anti-gender organisations in Europe has increased dramatically over the past decade – but there is little transparency about where the money comes from. This was one of the...
New Malaria Vaccine Proves Highly Effective – and COVID Shows...
Coronavirus vaccines have been developed and deployed in record time, but as global rollout has progressed, too few doses have been made available in low-income countries. It’s a stark reminder that...
In 2008, We Bailed Out The Banks. In 2021, We Need To Bail Out...
The COVID-19 pandemic is not a random event. It is a symptom of a global economic system that is destroying the living planet. The COVID-19 pandemic has been a nightmare for all of us. As vaccines...
Galapagos: How to Protect the Islands’ Amazing Marine Life from...
More than 300 foreign fishing ships, almost all Chinese, have been sitting in international waters surrounding the Galapagos Islands since late July. The islands, nearly 1,000 km from the coast of...
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...
COVID-19 Vaccines are a Victory for Public Research, Not ‘Greed’...
Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, reportedly attributed the success of the COVID-19 vaccines to “capitalism” and “greed”. But he is wrong – the idea that private ingenuity and naked competition...
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...
Farming Fish in Fresh Water is More Affordable and Sustainable...
A tidal wave of interest is building in farming the seas. It’s part of a global rush to exploit oceanic resources that’s been dubbed the “blue acceleration.” Optimistic projections say that smart...
Blood Clot Risks: Comparing the AstraZeneca Vaccine and the...
By the end of March, 79 cases of rare blood clots had been reported in those who’d received the AstraZeneca vaccine in the UK, with cases occurring more frequently in younger women. Because of...
How to Stop Psychopaths and Narcissists from Winning Positions...
One of the human race’s biggest problems has been that people who occupy positions of power are often incapable of using power in a responsible way. In the past, this was mostly due to hereditary...
COVID-19 Has Made The Super-Rich Richer. It’s Time For a...
The US’s billionaires have amassed democracy-distorting concentrations of wealth and power as millions have been thrown into poverty What should good societies do when a wealthy few reap enormous...
The EU And UK Are Releasing The Money Of Deposed Dictators
On 12 March, the EU lifted sanctions against nine Egyptians responsible for the misappropriation of Egyptian state funds and unfroze the suspected proceeds of corruption, claiming that “the...
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...
How to Build a Moon Base
Half a century after humans first walked on the moon, a number of private companies and nations are planning to build permanent bases on the lunar surface. Despite the technological progress since...