Category: World

CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT in Egypt: What Must COP27 Deliver?

Compensation for loss and damage caused by climate change has developed into a major, pressing…

Chile’s Rejection of 2022 Draft Constitution

Camila Vergara in SideCar: Pinochet and his legacy have proven hard to kill. The 2022…

Melting Greenland ice sheet could cause devastating sea level rise of nearly a foot

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet could cause a devastating sea level rise of…

Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World

Arthur Brooks in The Atlantic: If you are a parent, your greatest fear in life is likely…

IMAGINEERING Houses Amid Climate Change Challenges Home & Abroad (Pics, Videos)

The Pakistan floods 2022 have woken the world up (including me) to the country’s acute…

WATCH Some ‘Floating’ Ideas: A Hospital in Pakistan, A City in the Pacific, Iqbal Solar Park, Water From Ocean, Etc.

Curated by Irshad Salim (2020~) Honorary contributors to DesPardes: Ajaz Ahmed, Ammar Jafri, Anwar Abbas,…

COMMENT: ‘International Relations Theory Suggests Great-Power War Is Coming’

According to IR textbooks, the United States, Russia, and China are on a collision course,…

Anywhere But Here: Where Did the Pandemic Start?

Jon Cohen in Science: When Alice Hughes downloaded a preprint from the server Research Square in…

CONVERSATION: Western Hegemony is Nearing its End

UPDATED: The French President’s recent internal speech “foretells the future events that are likely to…

COVID-19: Ye Hai Covid Meri Jan (Videos)

Select COVID-19 WhatsAppshares curated by Irshad Salim (Aug. 21, 2022)

Toward Understanding New World Order, as the World Turns

Illustrations By Irshad Salim (May 2021 – Aug 2022):

The World Is Seeing How the Dollar Really Works

Adam Tooze in Foreign Policy: 2022 has been a year of dollar power—power that manifests…