Biden Won’t Reset U.S. Foreign Policy On His Own
By John Feffer
Joe Biden’s foreign policy team will have to navigate this new world. Their intentions — good, bad, indifferent — may end up mattering very little as they come up against the new geopolitical realities.
US Election: A Beginning to the Fall of Autocrats
By John Feffer
Authoritarianism has been on the march for years, but people powered revolutions are pushing regimes toward democracy on nearly every continent.
Nobel Peace Prize Spotlights the Links Between Hunger and Conflict
By Jessica Eise
The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the United Nations World Food Program for its efforts to combat hunger, foster conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war.
The Global Obsession With Cheap Migrant Workers
By Randall Hansen
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable migrant workers. Additionally, in a poorer world suffering major virus-inflicted structural damage, the demand for cheap labour – and cheap migrant labour – will only be stronger.
Trump’s Anti-Military Rhetoric: A Master Plan Or Political Suicide
By John Feffer
Trump’s anti-military remarks reported in the recent Atlantic article by Jeffrey Goldberg — “Trump Calls Americans Who Died in War ‘Losers’” — are no surprise. Because they are blunter than even what the president blurts in public, the alleged remarks are causing a larger-than-usual frisson of schadenfreude among anti-Trumpers.
The ‘Great Game’ between China and the United States
By Conn Hallinan
For China, the global war for influence is about trading partners. To the Americans, China is a fast rising competitor that doesn’t play by the rules and threatens one of the important trade routes.

Posts published in “Ideas”

Don’t take life so seriously: Montaigne’s lessons on the inner life

By Dorian Rolston on July 30, 2020

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92) lived a good, long life for a man in early modern France. By all accounts, it was a happy one, at least if his Essais (1570-92) – rangy discourses on varied subjects from thumbs to cannibals to the nature of ‘experience’ itself – are anything to go by.

Could ‘love hormone’ oxytocin help treat Alzheimer’s disease?

By Eleftheria Kodosaki on July 27, 2020

How CBD is Changing the Beauty Industry?

How CBD is Changing the Beauty Industry?

By Alex Pritchard on July 26, 2020

Talent, You’re Born With. Creativity, You Can Grow Yourself
Talent, You’re Born With. Creativity, You Can Grow Yourself
By Jyoti Mishra
Creativity, it is said, is intelligence having fun. It’s the ability to generate ideas, solutions or insights that are strikingly original, and yet feasible: in cognitive terms, a compelling creative idea doesn’t break down if one were to systematically tease apart its logic.
Weight Loss Or Muscle Gain: How Calories And Macros Reshape The Anatomy?
Weight Loss Or Muscle Gain: How Calories And Macros Reshape The Anatomy?
By Emma Kinrade
While reducing calorie intake is a proven way to reduce your weight, there’s no shortage of diets promising the same results but with more flexibility.
Weight Loss : Is body weight influenced by when you eat?
Weight Loss : Is body weight influenced by when you eat?
By Alex Johnstone and Leonie Ruddick-Collins
Eating most of your calories in the morning may also lead to greater weight loss. This weight loss seems to occur despite similar daily food intake and activity levels to those who ate more calories in the afternoon or evening.
Why Do Some People Remain Unscathed From Coronavirus Infection?
Why Do Some People Remain Unscathed From Coronavirus Infection?
By Emily Laber-Warren
Asymptomatic cases are not unique to Covid-19. They occur with the regular flu, and probably also featured in the 1918 pandemic, according to epidemiologist Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London. But scientists aren’t sure why certain people weather Covid-19 unscathed.