In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development; he offered an
Twenty months after Hamas launched the most atrocious attack on Jews since the Holocaust on October 7th, Gaza is destroyed. The Iran Axis is defeated. More than 20 thousand terrorists are dead,
MoreThe importance of Latinos living and working in the US is enormous: if they were in a separate country, it would be the world’s fifth largest economy, bigger than even India. President
MoreIsraelis do not see the images of skeletal corpses of Palestinian children who they have starved to death as a curse. They do not see the slain families they gun down at food hubs — designed not to
MoreThirty years have passed since the first Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was held in Berlin (Germany). Since then, successive agreements, targets,
MoreI use the term ‘struggle’ in the title of this article to mean ‘work,’ and not ‘fight.’ The advocacy for peace in the world is old as the history of war and
MoreMicrosoft was caught with its pants down in a brilliant exposé by Propublica that said that a major part of the Defense Department’s Cloud Computer system was run by Chinese engineers and monitored by
MoreBlind terror and hatred of Arabs and Islam fuel the American and Israeli plans for the so-called “Greater Israel” — a catastrophic aberration taking shape with no real deterrence. Despite international law,
MoreIn 2022, BYD executive Lian Yubo publicly praised Elon Musk, calling Tesla a model for all Chinese carmakers. At the time, Tesla was widely considered the technological leader in electric vehicles (EVs),
MoreThe refusal by the Trump administration to release the files and videos amassed during investigations into the activities of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, should put to rest the absurd idea, embraced by
MoreWhen the history of the genocide in Gaza is written, one of the most courageous and outspoken champions for justice and the adherence to international law will be Francesca Albanese, the United
MoreThe laboratory of developmental biologist Michael Levin at Tufts University, with its dozen or so postgrads, is a hub of ideas, experiments, and discoveries. Most exciting is the focus on cognition as
MoreEditor’s note: This essay is based on excerpts from the full academic paper “The Latent Maritime Potential of BRICS+: A Time for Realignment” by the suthor, published in the Strategic Review for
MoreThe geographic terms “Israel” and “Palestine” have a long history and specific connotations for Jews and Arabs with respect to their competing claims to the same land. The only way forward for
MoreWar is a business. So is genocide. The latest report submitted by Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, lists 48 corporations and institutions, including Palantir Technologies Inc., Lockheed Martin, Alphabet Inc.,
MoreIsrael’s weaponization of starvation is how genocides always end. I covered the insidious effects of orchestrated starvation in the Guatemalan Highlands during the genocidal campaign of Gen. Efraín Ríos Montt, the famine in southern
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