Africa’s missing Ebola outbreaks
During the fallout from the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which killed more than 11,000 people, one of the questions asked of the World Health Organisation (WHO) was why...
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...
The First Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)
Ten years after its establishment on June 15, 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), successor to the original Group of Five (Shanghai Five), is still in a state of flux....
An Analysis of Chinese Naval Deployments in International Waters
Our focus here is to try and explore China‟s previous naval deployments so as to gain a sense of this country‟s foreign policy themes when it comes to the navy....
Rare Metals Industry and Pollution: Assessing Chinese Authoritarianism in the 21st Century
While China‟s economic rise is to be commended the CCP elites have been growing concerned about how to properly manage the stark economic gap between rich and poor (Gini coefficient...
CAIRO “Ready to change its fortune…”
Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, who is under strong global impact has been examined in this volume. Egypt is a transcontinental country which is located at the intersection of...