On Earth Day 2017 I Ask What Will It Take to Not Have to Have an Earth Day 2100?
Today we honour the Earth in a tradition that is now going on almost 50 years. The first Earth Day was instituted during the administration of President Richard Nixon as…
Sundays Referendum: Electoral Implications
After a heated campaign period, the “yes camp” claimed victory on Sunday night in Turkey’s referendum which changes the political system from a parliamentary system to a presidential one. The…
Constitutional Referendum in Turkey: Victory vs. Great Divide
According to the early results of the referendum, held on 16 April 2017, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ruling Justice and Development Party, or AK Party, have claimed victory.…
Artificial Intelligence: ‘Frankenstein’ or Capitalist Money Machine
Introduction The Financial Times’ Special Report (2/16/2017) published a four-page spread on the ‘use and possible dangers of artificial intelligence (AI)’. Unlike the usual trash journalists who serve as Washington’s…
How to think clearly about North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction
Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of current North Korean strongman Kim Jong-un, passed away under circumstances as bizarre as they were suspicious. As in a game of Cluedo, we now have just…
Is There Another Way to Achieve Sustainable Nuclear Fusion Energy?
A paper describing a “new path” to fusion energy has been published in the latest edition of Chemical Physical Letters. Entitled, “Quantum controlled fusion,” it proposes an alternative to thermonuclear fusion as…
North Korea, the US and the Status Quo
In the age of “fake news” and President Donald Trump claiming that Sweden was riddled with terror attacks which of course never took place, and of perpetual corporate and state-media…
CESRAN International named the World’s #86 “Best Independent Think Tank”
CESRAN International is pleased to announce that it has been named the world’s number 86 "Best Independent Think Tank". The ranking was announced in the 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index…
Auschwitz to Rwanda: the link between science, colonialism and genocide
When the Soviet army liberated the Auschwitz death camp on 27 January 1945, among the prisoners left behind were a number of young twins. The surviving children and many more…
Spirited Away: A Glance at Hayao Miyazaki
Spirited Away (the original title: Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) is Hayao Miyazaki's animation which was made in Japan in 2001. The movie made a huge success all over the…
