Category: World

How Money Laundering Works

Money laundering is basically just deleting your money’s search history. Of course, one has to…

The Seven People Who Can Turn Off the Internet

There’s this group of nerds called ICANN—the Internet. Its a non-profit Corporation for Assigned Names…

The UFO Phenomenon: “If aliens revealed themselves, people would panic and hoard toilet paper”

From 7News Spotlight: It is now beyond doubt that strange, anomalous objects filling our skies…

How Google Built Its Dominant Web Advertising Business With Acquisition of DoubleClick

Google’s ad revenue is now north of $237 billion –more than the GDP of Greece….

The G20 Looks South

Bruno De Conti , Pedro Rossi, Arthur Welle, and Clara Saliba in Phenomenal World: In…

Geopolitics and the Geometry of Global Trade

McKinsey’s Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, January 2024) includes analysis of the changing geometry of…

Shockwaves in the Global Order

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the…

Hegel’s World Revolutions

Terry Eagleton at the London Review of Books: The​ Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he…

How Much Does the UN Really Cost?

UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq answers common questions about the UN’s budget, including how the UN…

Where Western and Indian Philosophy Meet

Schopenhauer is not a reliable guide to the Upanishads. Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad in IAI on Comparing Western…

War, AI and the New Global Arms Race

Lethal drones with facial recognition, armed robots, autonomous fighter jets: we’re at the dawn of…

Ten Key Takeaways From Davos 2024

We have to build new economic models, new businesses and possibly new lifestyles or humanity…