Iftar at Lord’s Cricket Stadium in UK (Video)
Mosques in Moscow are overflowing during Ramadan. Iftar held at Lord's cricket stadium in UK. (WhatsApp share by DesPardes.com reader)
Month: April 2022
Ethno-Populist Policies and Sri Lanka’s Economic Meltdown
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram: Once deemed a basic human needs success story, Sri Lanka (SL) is now...
Why India Did Not Go to War With China
IRSHAD SALIM - "Because they could not," a Pakistani defense expert says. "Militarily, China has outpaced India by decades in...
Hepatitis B and the Liver Cancer Endgame
Kristina Campbell in Nature: Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths globally — and although rates of death...
How Substack Might Replace The New York Times
Tomas Pueyo in Uncharted Territories: The New York Times is obsessed with Substack. A few months ago, it published Why We’re...
The World Can Stop Capital Flight Now
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram: Capital flight is widespread, with resource-rich countries more vulnerable. ‘Mis-invoicing’ exports and embezzling export earnings of...
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
Trevor Quirk at Bookforum on Justin E. H. Smith’s Philosophical History Of The Internet: The first four nodes of ARPANET—the...
A Guide To Putin’s Inner Circle, According to The Onion
The Onion ("America's Finest News Source") publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. Most (if not all) its...
How Hypersonic Missiles Work and the Unique Threats They Pose
Hypersonic missiles threaten to upend the relative stability of the current era of nuclear weapons. They are not as fast...
Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History
Arundhati Roy’s Lecture at the University of Texas: Before I begin, I would like to say a few words about...
