Russia’s Aughinish alumina refinery faces environmental protests in Limerick
Rusal, the international mining and metals giant headquartered in Moscow, Russia, which owns the huge Aughinish alumina refinery in the Shannon Estuary, is facing...
Thomas L. Hogan: “The Fed is bankrupt – and I don’t just mean intellectually”
“The Fed is bankrupt — and I don’t just mean intellectually”, Thomas L. Hogan, Ph.D. writes, a senior research faculty at American Institute for Economic...
‘Survival’ is very powerful motivator to drive US-China cooperation
There have been debates of whether China and the US have entered a new cold war, and there has been much hype of a...
The quest for hypersonic and hydrogen-fuelled air travel
While flying is a major contributor to the climate crisis, behind the scenes scientists are designing cleaner and faster airliners.
By Tom Cassauwers
The passenger planes...
Taiwan highly vulnerable to Chinese air attack, leaked documents show
Taiwan is unlikely to thwart Chinese military air superiority in a cross-strait conflict, while tactics such as China’s use of civilian ships for military...
Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East
A potentially consequential meeting in New Delhi went conspicuously unnoticed in much of the West. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai...
United States and the West are no longer ‘examples’ for UAE
It started with Saudi Arabia. President Biden was met with cool, if not cold, greetings during his visit to Riyadh last July. Then the...
International Business Partnerships Enhance Montenegro’s Economic Climate
Following the establishment of the US-Montenegro Economic Dialogue in September 2021, the first US Trade Mission was successfully completed at the end of last...
Fake climate solutions that are making climate change worse
“We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction,” notes Vijay Kolinjivadi, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp, at...