A grain truth lurks inside this way of thinking. The net really does seem to be tightening around a thriving but largely unregulated market. Lately the…
Technology• US
Facebook Under Pressure: A Whistle blower Provides the Needed Evidence to the Senate to finally Request Radical Changes on the Platform
October 2021I clearly remember in Facebook’s early days, its motto was “move fast and break things”. Little did they know at that time that the company would…
Coronavirus• Economy
Climate Change and Covid-19 is the Result of a Last decade for Emerging Markets – BRICS is in the need of an Overhaul and Multinational Development Banks (MDBs) Need Urgently to Press the Recovery Button by Softening Their Credit Ratings
September 2021The economic crisis induced by the Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the most serious setback to development progress and poverty alleviation in recent memory. There is…
Middle East
We are just One World Now. From Afghanistan to Pakistan, from India to China – from climate change to Covid-19 – these are all lessons we should have learned from
September 2021The Afghan civil war of the 1990’s gave birth to the Taliban. The Taliban played host to Osama Bin Laden who returned to the site of…
Economy
From Climate Change to Climate Action-Climate Skepticism Will Not Achieve Net Zero
August 2021We have come a long way along. Policies to green the economy, such as carbon taxes and emissions trading, are well understood, and getting to net…
Brexit• UK
UK’s Freedom Day – Isolation at Chequers and the Political Difficulties for the Prime Minister Johnso
July 2021Monday, 19th July 2021, was Freedom Day in England. It was a day when all of the pandemic measures were finally lifted, a time for rejoicing…
Brexit• UK
Brexit Referendum – Half a Decade has passed, and Global Britain is Weaker than ever before
July 2021Ever since the nation of Brexit was conjured up by English nationalists’ intent on cutting the United Kingdom’s ties with the third largest trading bloc in…
US
Facebook vs. Apple and the fight over our user data and our privacy; New opportunities ahead of us
June 2021It was a grenade lobbed into the tenuous peace between Apple and Facebook – a software update that explicitly asked iPhone users whether an app should…
After a volatile week, a Bitcoin was still worth about 40,000 USD last month. That is still quite valuable, something Bitcoin enthusiast have been eager to…
Brexit• Economy• Europe
Europe’s Recovery Fund – No Rush as Brussels needs the right design for holding members to commitments
May 2021It is almost a year since French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Angela Merkel threw their weight behind the idea of an EU recovery fund…