Op-ed

Gufron Gozali From Ukrainian intelligence reports, Russia has 127,000 troops stationed near the Ukrainian border. Not only the army, Russia then sent tanks to tactical missiles. The US side says that Russia will carry out an attack in February in 2022. This is based on the preparations that …

Guillermo Abio In the first days of 2022, the Biden administration withdrew its support for the EastMed gas project, which aims to connect the gas fields in the Eastern Mediterranean to Greece, and then to Italy and potentially to the rest of the European peninsula. This pipeline is …

Arshad Khan Almost forever, the element of surprise has been a key to victory in human warfare.  Therefore, for Putin to declare his troops on the borders of Ukraine indicates not war but a ploy. What does Putin want?  Well, he wants status for Russia.  He wants it …

Giancarlo Elia Valori The recent discussions on the Monroe Doctrine in European and US academic circles and in the media have mainly focused on George W. Bush’s and Trump’s Administrations. Although both Administrations were ruled by the Republican Party, foreign policy often conflicted. In the English-speaking world most …

Desmond Lachman If the Fed does not raise interest rates aggressively, it risks both allowing inflation to become entrenched and adding further froth to already bubbly asset price markets. Yesterday, in reviewing his administration’s economic challenges, President Joe Biden did Americans a great service by finally recognizing that …

Alexandra Hall Now, more than ever, disinformation has the ability to influence policy decision-making. If it was not already evident that disinformation campaigns should be taken seriously as a security threat, the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election brought this reality into clear …

In a milestone for the environment, Europeans purchased more electric cars than those powered by diesel last month. According to recent data, over 20 per cent of new cars sold in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) in December 2021 were electric. Meanwhile, the sale of diesel vehicles …

Food insecurity is soaring across 20 countries and regions – “hunger hotspots”, where conflict, economic shocks, natural hazards, political instability, and limited humanitarian access, are putting millions of lives at risk, UN agencies highlighted on Thursday. According to the Hunger Hotspots Report from the World Food Programme (WFP) and Food …

A new report released today from the Deloitte Economics Institute shows that the United States economy could gain $3 trillion if it rapidly decarbonizes over the next 50 years. This once-in-a-generation transformation could add nearly 1 million more jobs to the US economy by 2070, according to the …