Environment
Transport & Environment: Mining waste – time for EU to clean up
A new legal analysis makes the case for a revision of the EU Extractive Waste Directive. Read HERE
Articles by David Shirreff
Geopolitics
Arvind Dilawar – Israel Is Holding Thousands of Palestinians Captive — Including Children
More than 10,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been arrested by Israeli forces since October 7. Held indefinitely without charge they are essentially hostage to the Israeli prison system. Arvind Dilawar is an independent […]
Environment
Howard Lisnoff – The Feeding Frenzy of Consumerism and Environmental Destruction
As a society we need to pay attention to the big-ticket consumer items that would slow climate destruction. Howard Lisnoff is a freelance writer. He is the author of Against the Wall: Memoir of a Vietnam-Era War […]
Inequality
Maxim Pinkovskiy, Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Kasey Chatterji-Len, William Nober – Inequality within countries is falling
The authors find that not only has overall global inequality fallen, but within-country inequality has stopped rising and has been falling for the better part of a decade, if not more. Maxim Pinkovskiy is an […]
National Politics
Common Dreams: Is the US Ready to Defend Democracy From Rogue Election Officials?
In 2020, the election deniers were improvisational and slapdash; now they are systematic, organized, and well funded. Read HERE Photo: TapTheForwardAssist/Creative Commons
Geopolitics
Responsible Statecraft: Symposium – What does Ukraine’s incursion into Russia really mean?
Ten experts gauge the short and long term effects of Kyiv’s bold invasion on the war. Read HERE Photo: Военный Осведомитель/Creative Commons
Geopolitics
Marnie Lloydd – The Geneva Conventions at 75: do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world?
In theory, these rules of war are universally agreed by every nation. In practice, they are routinely violated everywhere. Marnie Lloydd is Senior Lecturer in Law and Co-Director New Zealand Centre for Public Law, Te […]
Geopolitics
Bill Kissane – Taking warnings of civil war seriously
Elon Musk, the social media tycoon, has not been the only one to bring warnings of civil war to western democracies. Bill Kissane is an Associate Professor of Politics in the Government Department at the London […]
Economics
Angela Dalmonte and Tommaso Frattini – Skilled but struggling: The ‘brain waste’ dilemma of migrants in Europe
Although a similar share of immigrants and natives have a university education, tertiary-educated immigrants have a lower employment probability. Angela Dalmonte is Junior Researcher Centro Studi Luca D’Agliano, Tomaso Frattini is Professor of Economics in the […]
Economics
Bernie Sanders: Democrats should run on a progressive economic agenda – Americans are ready
Campaigning on an economic agenda that speaks to the needs of working families is a winning formula for Kamala Harris Read HERE Bernie Sanders Photo: Shelly Prevost/Creative Commons