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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

COVID-19: United Nations on a ventilator

The writing on the wall suggests that COVID-19 is fast consuming the United Nations.  The increasing global ineffectiveness and sluggishness is hammering down the...

The Arctic: Great powers & their geopolitical interests

Climate change, global warming, and new trends of power politics have brought the Arctic into unique geopolitical limelight. The melting ice-cap is altering conditions...

Death of Capitalism: Re-emergence of Socialism & Rise of Welfare States

Dr. Adil Najam, the Ex-Vice Chancellor of LUMS and currently a Dean at Boston University, has compiled views of intellectuals to compare the world...

Covid-19 disaster: Will US shift its focus from imperialism to healthcare system?

The greatness of the classical Greek tragedies lies in their humanising effect on the spectator or reader — “catharsis”, the purification or purgation of...

With US sanctions intact, China emerges as Iran’s lifeline

The Covid-19 pandemic has become a political testing ground for Iran and the US. Whether or not US should lift sanctions on Iran, is...

How New York surpassed Europe’s worst-hit countries in coronavirus deaths?

New York has more coronavirus cases than any country and accounts for around half of all deaths in the United States. Why was is...

Corona fight: It’s about time bureaucracy showed its performance

Faced with an unprecedented situation from the moment Chinese authorities began fighting the outbreak of Corona Virus in Wuhan city a high measure of...

COVID-19 pandemic: 2 best ways to win the fight!

Governments across the globe are scrambling to contain the spread of Covid-19. Developed countries with near universal healthcare such as the UK, Italy and...

Is COVID-19 a biological weapon?

Jumel Gabilan Estrañero/Ma. Kristina Decena Siuagan Can something as transmissible and fatal as Sars-CoV-2, which causes the now dreaded COVID-19, be the next chemical and...

Saudi vs US? Oil price war hurt US more than Russia

A decision by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC producers like Russia to temporarily end a price war and cut production,...

Rising xenophobia: Are Chinese responsible for pandemic?

Amid Covid-19, another pandemic xenophobia has also enveloped the world. As per reported incidents so far, racism is surging at an exponential rate across...

There will be no Universal Health Care in the US: Bernie Sander’s is out of the race!

Bernie Sanders' socialist ideals and calls for universal health care and higher wages have long been mocked in US politics, but he tapped a...