Aviation
Transport & Environment: Only Ten Airlines have Serious Plans to Transition to Green Fuels
Half the airlines in the T & E ranking score zero for their lack of uptake of sustainable aviation fuels. Read HERE
Articles by David Shirreff
Geopolitics
Alon Ben-Meir – Has the United Nations outlived its usefulness?
The UN, which was established to foster global peace and stability, has now become a paralyzed institution that inadvertently contributes to raging conflicts because it is constrained by an archaic structure that no longer meets […]
Food Production
Helena Norberg-Hodge – The Globalized, Industrialized Food System Is Destroying the World: We Urgently Need to Support Local Food Economies
Our food system is linked to an economic system fundamentally biased against what’s good for people and the planet. Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures. She is the author of Ancient Futures (Chelsea Green, […]
Economics
Glenn Sacks – A Planned, Socialist Economy Works: The Economic Success of China
The American political establishment can’t bring itself to acknowledge that a planned, socialist economy works. Glenn Sacks teaches social studies at James Monroe High School in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He was recently […]
Geopolitics
Middle East Eye: Armed Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, cars and olive trees across West Bank
Israelis destroyed ancient trees that were older than Israel itself say residents of Burqa after a wave of attacks on towns and villages Read HERE Photo: Mahmoud burnat 2005/Creative Commons
Geopolitics
Turkish Minute: EU criticizes Turkey for continued deterioration of democratic standards and rule of law
The European Commission in its yearly report on Turkey said there are “serious concerns” about the continued deterioration of democratic standards, the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights Read HERE Photo: Hilmi Hacaloğlu/Voice of America
Geopolitics
Binoy Kampmark – Crippling UNRWA: The Knesset’s Collective Punishment of Palestinians
The campaign against UNRWA by the Israeli state has been relentless and pathological. Binoy Kampmark was a Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He lectures at RMIT University, Melbourne. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photo: Eliran t/Creative […]
Food Production
Shonil Baghwat – How a Trump election win could hit the US food industry and leave millions of Americans hungry
Amid all the noise about these key issues however, food has received only marginal coverage in the campaigning despite the country’s high cost of living. Shonil Baghwat is Professor of Environment and Development, The Open University […]
Economics
Ian Proud – Georgia: Election was just as much about the economy
Closer ties to Europe have not helped Tbilisi on the fiscal front, just look at the numbers Ian Proud was a member of Britain’s Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023. He served as the Economic […]
Finance
VoxEU: Currency denomination of foreign exchange reserves – from taboo in the past towards disclosure and exciting research nowadays
There has been a growing trend towards more disclosure by central banks on the currency denomination of their foreign exchange reserves. Read HERE