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The heartbroken news surfaced from Singapore in multiple media outlets, which shocked the people of Assam in grief, but also in instant outrage among the young generation, who were born in eastern India and brought up with the melodious voice…

Fortunately, nobody could read my mind, especially when I am hungry.   “Just order something, anything, I’m paying!”  I grumbled with my mouth shut.  I saw stars swirling as I listened to the back-and-forth chatter between the China-born owner waiting…

“The world is moving toward decarbonization, but the promise of clean energy has become a battlefield among powers, corporations, and peoples who guard the raw materials.” The 20th century was ruled by oil. Wars, dictatorships, empires, and corporations grew in…

“Europe, China, the United States, and the Gulf are competing with subsidies and megaprojects. Behind climate discourse lies a struggle for energy hegemony and the promise of a new industry that can become a lever of sovereignty or an extractive…

The global balance of power is undergoing a profound and accelerated transformation, shifting its economic and strategic center of gravity from the West toward the East. This realignment, echoing Hegel’s dialectic view of history, is being dramatically hastened by recent…

by Dimitra Staikou Two regions of the world, Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean and Kashmir in South Asia, have been transformed into bloody hotbeds of division. Although the causes, actors, and geopolitical conditions differ, both cases show how history, ethnic composition,…

After having seen it happen multiple times in my own country and other European countries how Jewish organisations, not-Jewish organisations and Jewish and not-Jewish individuals scream anti-semitism when people denounce and condemn Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza,…

by Dimitra Staikou “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” With these words from the Gita, Robert Oppenheimer realized that his creation, which began as a promise of scientific progress, had been transformed into an instrument of mass…

“The continents are drying, freshwater availability is shrinking, and sea level rise is accelerating… Combined, they send perhaps the direst message on the impact of climate change to date.” (Unprecedented Continental Drying study, see below) Human-generated climate change, the result…

One of the main issues that may take center stage at the upcoming UN General Assembly is the ongoing devastating war in Gaza, and the international outcry for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state to end the plight of…