If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War

"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."-W.H. Auden Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Corona virus - grievous...

Contemporary China: Polit-economic, Socio-cultural Challenges & Prospects

Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, all eyes, yet again, are on China, which many expect, equally enthusiastically and alarmingly, to become the world’s largest...

Kashmir Lockdown Continues Amid Pandemic

On 5th August 2019 India revoked the special status of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Since then the IOK has been under strict inhuman security...

Nurturing Africa’s Monsters and Sustaining the Dystopian Narrative

A recent concern amongst some African intellectuals has manifested in the question; why is the West so enamored with Africa’s poverty porn? There has...

Singaporean Daren Tang Appointed as the Next WIPO Director General

On May 8, Daren Tang, Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) was officially appointed as the next Director General of...

Europe must emerge stronger from this crisis

Authors: President Sassoli, President Michel and President von der Leyen In 1950, Europe was in crisis, still devastated physically and economically by the effects of...

Coronavirus: What Germany Did Right and the U.S. Did Not

If the US effort has been characterized by a daily presidential news conference, the German response has distanced itself from politics.  Local and apolitical,...

The fundamental problems with the Iranian system of government

Iran Islamic republic was established in 1979. From the formation of religious government until now, the Iranian country has been run by sharia rules...

“War” in peacetime and the day after

For a few months now, humanity has been experiencing a new situation that is nothing similar to anything it had experienced during the last...

Return of the Wir wussten nicht: The equation of Communism with Nazism

“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism” –I quoted West Germany’s Max Horkheimer just few months...

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