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Afghanistan
What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

What my 20 years in Afghanistan taught me about the Taliban – and how the west consistently underestimates them

The Conversation

By Sippi Azarbaijani Moghaddam | – It was April 1995, and I was preparing to travel to Afghanistan for my first volunteer post with a UK charity. I had travelled to London to meet the Afghanistan director for the non-governmental organisation (NGO) I was going to be working for and now sat in their tiny […]

Banking
Turkey’s currency crisis is a textbook example of what not to do with interest rates

Turkey’s currency crisis is a textbook example of what not to do with interest rates

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By Gulcin Ozkan | – Central banks around the globe are currently staring at inflation rates unseen in more than 20 years. Supply chain problems and labour shortages arising from the pandemic, combined with sharply rising food and energy prices, have pushed prices up by as much as 6.2% in the US, 4.2% in the […]

Displaced and Refugees
Channel deaths of Middle Easterners: the UK has clear legal responsibilities towards people crossing in small boats

Channel deaths of Middle Easterners: the UK has clear legal responsibilities towards people crossing in small boats

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By Mariagiulia Giuffré | – At least 27 people have drowned in the English Channel attempting to cross in a small boat. There were three children, seven women, one of whom was pregnant, and 17 men. Although a joint search and rescue operation was seemingly launched in the narrow maritime area between the UK and […]

Climate Crisis
Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

Electric cars aren’t enough to hit climate targets: we need to develop better public transport too

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By Vera O’Riordan | – Transport is responsible for 24% of energy-related carbon emissions worldwide. Half of those emissions are from carrying goods and services, and the other half are from carrying people from A to B – also known as “passenger transport”. Passenger transport has a huge impact on our surroundings, and it’s one […]

Epidemics
What we know about the Omicron Corona Variant So Far

What we know about the Omicron Corona Variant So Far

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By Prof. Wolfgang Preiser, Cathrine Scheepers, Jinal Bhiman, Marietjie Venter, and Tulio de Oliveira | – Since early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa has been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2. This was a valuable tool to understand better how the virus spread. In late 2020, the network detected a […]

Climate Crisis
Whether Gov'ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

Whether Gov’ts like it or not, Coal Plants are doomed by Cheap Solar and Wind Power

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By James Ha and Alison Reeve | The international climate summit in Glasgow aimed to “consign coal power to history”. But while some major coal-consuming countries have agreed to phase out the fossil fuel in the 2030s, Australia is not one of them. Under its recently released plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, the […]

Militarization
No, Modern Warfare is not "Accurate" or "Accountable" and dead Innocents are not "Collateral Damage"

No, Modern Warfare is not “Accurate” or “Accountable” and dead Innocents are not “Collateral Damage”

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By Lauren Gould, Jolle Demmers, and Nora Stel | – The US military is facing allegations it covered up civilian casualty cases in the US-led coalition war against Islamic State (IS). It’s an issue that has drawn attention to one of the most worrying aspects of US and coalition involvement in the Middle East: the […]

CO2
Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary "Carbon Capture"

Climate Emergency: Big Oil wants to go on drilling while greenwashing with imaginary “Carbon Capture”

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By June Sekera and Neva Goodwin | – After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now shifting to a new strategy: presenting itself as the source of solutions. This repositioning includes rebranding itself as a “carbon management industry.” This strategic pivot was on display at the […]

Climate Crisis
Forget the Hype about Cutting Methane -- Carbon Dioxide is the Real Enemy

Forget the Hype about Cutting Methane — Carbon Dioxide is the Real Enemy

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By Michelle Cain | – Leading an alliance of more than 100 countries, US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have launched the Global Methane Pledge – an agreement to cut methane emissions by 30% between 2020 and 2030. Methane is a greenhouse gas which has caused about 0.5°C of […]

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