Marketing Responsible Finance The Convenient Choice: Investing in Solutions for a Better Future Sustainability Paris Climate Summit: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Stormy Forecast for Nuclear Energy Future Capitalism How to Defeat Western Neo-Colonialism The West is Built on Corpses, but it is Unrepentant Learning to Live in the World Instead of Ruling It Race and Politics Archaeology Finance Luxury Taxation, Good for Economic Development?
The End of Europe (As We Know It)?
Dan Steinbock
The Strategic Role of Marketing-Related Technology in Politics and What Business can Learn from It
Bruce Newman
Should Economists Care About Ethics
Jonathan Wight
Interview with Sasja Beslik, Nordea
Sustainable Palm Oil Production is the Way Forward
Interview with Datum Darrel Webber, RSPO
Steve Breyman
Linda Pentz Gunter
The Problems of Unfree Trade: Various Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Binoy Kampmark
Financial Oligarchy vs. Feudal Aristocracy
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh and Anthony A. Gabb
Andre Vltchek
John Grant
We Will Not Stop Talking About Racism
Lawrence Ware and Rebecca Martinez
Ancient Amazons: Warrior Women in Myth and History
Adrienne Mayor
From Hyper-Finance to Secular Stagnation & Mass Unemployment
Michel-Henry Bouchet and Robert Isaak
Patrick Imam
March – April 2016
A Disunited United States: What the 2016 Election Says About America
The 2016 election may be focused on the rise of Donald Trump, but the Trump candidacy is possible only because America is a nation deeply divided culturally and politically. On issues, values and even the meaning of the American Dream, Democrats and Republicans see different realities. Who wins will depend on which vision of America captures the majority.
The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2016
The Keys to the White House, a prediction system that correctly forecasted the outcomes of all eight presidential elections since 1984 demonstrate that neither the choices of the party nominees nor campaign events will affect the outcome of America’s 2016 presidential election. The election will turn on the performance of the party controlling the White House. Although prospects look bright for another Democratic victory, the Keys indicate how circumstances could shift to favour the Republicans.
The Strategic Significance of Central Asia
By David Denoon
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the creation of five newly independent states in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Each of these states had been conquered by Imperial Russia and, subsequently, was tightly controlled by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The process of establishing themselves as truly autonomous states has been the central enterprise for these five countries in the last twenty-two years.
Why Selling the SDGs Isn’t As Easy As ABC
Amid much hype and expectation, the 193 member states of the United Nations last September agreed on a new ambitious set of global goals that are designed to tackle poverty, inequality, and climate change over the next 15 years. But while celebrated in political and development circles, the hard-fought Sustainable Development Goals have so far failed to spark much media or public interest. Why have the SDGs been such a tough sell – and how important is it to the success of these goals to win public and media engagement?
The Dirty War on Syria: No Popular Uprising
By Tim Anderson
The world has been deceived over the conflict in Syria. It was always a ‘regime change’ dirty war and never a popular uprising. The root of the deception was a cabal of western governments, media and NGOs on a war footing and using partisan sources linked to their proxy armies.
The Responsibility to Participate: The Problem of Global Engagement in Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis
By Charles H. Camp and Theresa Bowman
Despite the unanimous agreement of United Nations member states to commit as an international community to global humanitarian relief, many countries are reflecting the discomfort their electorates have with offering asylum to the recent Syrian refugees. In this article, the authors discuss the Responsibility to Protect doctrine and argue that if the doctrine is to mean anything, the “international community” obliged to protect should be understood to include more than simply the U.N. member states themselves.
How Can Brazil Restore its Growth Trajectory?
Only a few years ago, Brazil exemplified the BRIC dream of rapid growth. Now it is coping with its longest recession, loss of confidence, possibly a lost decade. Dan Steinbock explains what happened, and how and when Brazil could restore to its growth.
Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design
Barry Katz’s book Make it New: The History of Silicon Valley Design sets out to answer the question of how ‘design’ evolved from a marginal service to a strategic imperative. Drawing upon a vast array of original, primary-source materials it explains the role of design in transforming the fragrant orchards of Santa Clara County into the most powerful economic engine in the world.
Harvesting The Biosphere
By Vaclav Smil
Humanity has been harvesting an increasing share of the Earth’s photosynthetic productivity. This has already resulted in a new world where the two species – cattle and people – dominate in mass terms but further losses lie ahead.
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