Environment
Saeed Bagheri: The Silent Victim of Israel’s War on Gaza
More than 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been destroyed in Gaza since October. Read HERE Photo: RafahKid Kid/Creative Commons
Articles by David Shirreff
Sustainability
Middle East Eye: Saudi Arabia ‘scales back’ goals of megacity project Neom
Straight-line desert city The Line was scheduled to have 1.5m living there by 2030, but officials now expect less than 300,000 residents Read HERE Photo source Neom
Geopolitics
Patrick Mazza: A World going in the Wrong Direction
The converging crises facing our world today shout out the fact that their roots are systemic. Tinkering around the edges won’t solve these problems, because they are embedded in the systems logic itself. Read HERE […]
National Politics
Middle East Eye: ‘A tsunami’- Why Erdogan lost Turkey’s local elections
AKP supporters wanted to ‘punish’ the government for economic and political failures, say analysts Read HERE Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – Photo: US State Department
Economics
Payal Arya and Fred Ledley – The Global Pharmaceutical Industry Isn’t Investing in Products for the Greatest Burden of Human Disease – Are Non-Profits a Solution?
The greatest disease burden is associated with conditions prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, where the available market is typically inadequate to justify the investment cost; a classic instance of market failure. Payal Arya is […]
Lobbying
Sonali Kolhatkar – Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge
The price of corporate compromising on safety is usually paid with taxpayer dollars and immigrant worker lives. Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up […]
Finance
Dominic Caddick – Ending stealth subsidies to UK banks is vital – but so is scrapping our borrowing rules
The Bank of England shouldn’t pay interest on all the UK bank reserves deposited with it, as it has since 2008 Quantitative Easing. Dominic Caddick is an economist specialising in fiscal and monetary policy in the UK […]
Geopolitics
William J. Astore – Pentagon Spending and National (In)Security
Making major cuts to military spending would increase U.S. national security. William J. Astore is a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), has taught at the Air Force Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School. He currently teaches at the […]
Geopolitics
Daniel Bertossa – The targeting of Gaza’s essential workers and civilian infrastructure is an attack on us all
Across Gaza, public service workers face scenes of unimaginable devastation: 392 educational facilities destroyed; 132 water wells out of service; 24 hospitals knocked out with the remaining 11 only partially functional. Daniel Bertossa has been the […]
Lobbying
Lynn Parramore – Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments. Lynne Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking Cross-posted from the […]