Category: World
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…
IMF’s Summer of Discontent?
Argentina’s latest tango with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a stress test for the…