Tadatoshi Akiba: “The Goal of The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is...
A conversation with the former mayor of Hiroshima on nuclear weapons By Joseph Mazur
The city of Hiroshima will forever live in the memory...
Humbling Perspectives: Kimberly Gire’s Journey Focusing on Vulnerable Communities as Co-Chair at the Centre...
With an extensive career operating in the fields of banking, finance, and strategic philanthropy, Kimberly Gire brings an impressive skill-set to the role of...
How the World Press Freedom Index Was Politicized – Long Before the New Cold...
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
For years, the press freedom index by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been widely quoted, even though its methodology is...
The Impact Of Covid-19 On The Global Economy
By Kalim Siddiqui
Introduction
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered the sharpest and deepest contraction of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) in the history of capitalism as globalisation...
Hope, Wisdom, Advocacy: An Interview With Toronto’s Deborah Morrish
Cicero wrote that all great achievements require “reflection, force of character and judgment.”
Today’s world certainly needs more of those qualities. In her role as...
How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism
By Andre Vltchek
The West managed to build its wealth, including the social nets, on plunder, deception, slavery and countless holocausts on all continents of...
Gearing Corporate Reporting to Promote Sustainable Development
By James X. Zhan
The post-2015 sustainable development goals (SDGs) currently being devised by the international community cannot be fulfilled under the auspices of the...
Finding Relief In Leveraging Relief Benefits Amid America’s Covid-19 Recovery
By Andrea Adkins-Hutchins, Thomas P. Miller & Associates (TPMA)
As America steadily acclimates herself with the new Biden administration, a certain grace period has allowed...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
The World Bank and Neoliberalism: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Making of an Agenda
By Howard Stein
Since the latter part of the 1990s the World Bank has increasingly claimed its main focus is on poverty reduction and development. Among other things, the Bank introduced poverty focused loans, a...
