Op-ed

Giancarlo Elia Valori The Covid-19 pandemic triggered a crisis or rather a real collapse in the oil barrel price, down from approximately sixty US dollars just before the coronavirus spread to the current twenty dollars – with downward peaks before the end of April 2020, still significantly lower …

Farzad Ramezani Bonesh Senior Researcher and Analyst of International Affairs  Pakistan is one of the first countries established diplomatic relations with the UAE since 1971. Also, the meetings of political officials between the two countries have increased in the past year, and we have witnessed many developments in …

Giancarlo Elia Valori Despite the “phase one” trade agreement signed between the United States and China in January 2020, the coronavirus issue has greatly distorted the Chinese economy. It should be recalled that China had pledged to buy 200 billion U.S. dollars of U.S. goods and “specific products” …

The current biased pressure about the coronavirus and the Wuhan lab has multiple costs. It is likely to impede public understanding of what is known and unknown about the origins of the pandemic. It is an additional needless complication in U.S. relations with China, especially if the hypothesis …

A new letter published on Monday lays out their top priorities. A group of fifty-one organizations led by Demand Progress sent a letter on Monday listing “key” foreign policy priorities of the progressive movement for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Biden had defeated insurgent progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders …

What makes the virus so pernicious and difficult to eradicate is how it attaches itself to U.S. fears and insecurities regarding China but inflates them enormously. There is a China virus ravaging the world, preying in particular on Americans of all stripes. Its symptoms are clear: a feverish, …

Biological outbreaks have been a fear among experts for decades. The ever-increasing encroachment upon natural habitats has resulted in zoonotic disease spillover to humans. There is no scientific evidence that the virus that causes the coronavirus was bioengineered. However, that does not mean that humans do not bear …

Sajad Abedi  Why is Sydney Bristow in the television show “pseudonym” the worst spy in history? She is always arrested. Why is she arrested? Because she is entering a good coping action. She fled to the guards. Video cameras record their image. She turns on motion detectors, whenever she …

Prof. Louis René Beres “I warn the reader that this essay requires to be read very seriously and that I am unacquainted with any art which can make the subject clear to those who will not bestow on it their  serious attention.”-Jean Jacques-Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762) More …