17 April 2016 – CESRAN International

Post-COP21 Emission Reduction Pledges are Inadequate – Why?

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

For ten millennia preceding the Industrial Revolution the Earth has had a healthy carbon balance. Forests, soil and other vegetation roughly balanced the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering the...

CESRAN Blog

Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

Europe’s Islamist Legionnaires Come Home to Fight Introduction The terror bombings in Paris and Brussels have raised a cacophony of voices, ranging from state officials, Prime Ministers and Presidents, to...

Americas

American Establishment Is Sabotaging Sanders and Trump Insurgencies

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

As the forward march of the Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders primary campaigns continues to defy expert predictions, the GOP and Democratic party establishments, and their corporate-media allies are busily...

Europe

An IMF Plot, Greece, the EU and BREXIT

CESRAN Int.17 April 201625 April 2016

On 19 March 2016, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission team for Greece held a meeting on how to force Greece into further austerity measures. These would entail deeper wage...

Europe

Czechia – Is The Czech Republic’s New Name Real?

CESRAN Int.17 April 201625 April 2016

The Czech Republic wants to change its name. Czech foreign minister Lubomír Zaorálek has led calls for the country to be internationally known by the short, rather commercial-sounding name –...

Europe

How Brexit will Reduce Foreign Investment in the UK – and Why that Matters

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

Foreign investors love Britain, but Brexit would kill the vibe. According to new research colleagues and I have conducted at the Centre for Economic Performance, leaving the European Union could...

Russia and Eurasia

Russia: A Global Energy Powerhouse that’s much more than a Petro-state

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

Russia is not what you think. Most discussion about its energy influence has focused on oil and gas, particularly gas. Russia can be described, and is routinely described, as a...

Africa

Why Urban Agriculture isn’t a Panacea for Africa’s Food Crisis

CESRAN Int.17 April 201617 April 2016

Gareth Haysom, University of Cape Town and Jane Battersby, University of Cape Town Urban agriculture is widely promoted as the solution to the growing problem of urban food insecurity in South Africa...