ወደ ቤተመንግስት የዞረው አፈሙዝ፤ እነ ብርሀኑና ይልማ እንደ ጀኔራል ሚን (ETHIO FORUM)
Video about Myanmar oppression.
Month: November 2024
Ukraine Policy: the Big Win: We win a lot if we pull Russia toward us and leave China out in the cold where it belongs. (Russell Berman and Kiron Skinner)
President Trump rightly points out that America did not engage in new wars during his first term in office. The world was indeed a more stable place before the Biden administration engineered a disastrous exit from Afghanistan. That catastrophe signaled weakness and incentivized the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the Hamas attack on …
How Biden Can Salvage Middle East Peace—and His Legacy: A Lame-Duck Agenda to Save Palestinian Lives and Bolster Israel’s Long-Term Security (Jonah Blank)
When U.S. President Joe Biden leaves office in January, the already faint prospect of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may follow him out the door. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the very concept. Biden’s successor, President-elect Donald Trump, spent his first term actively promoting Netanyahu’s most expansionist dreams. Biden has so far …
Israel’s Trump Delusion: Why Netanyahu’s Ambition to Remake the Middle East Is Unlikely to Succeed (Shalom Lipner)
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election could not have come at a better time for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. More than 13 months since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, terrorist attack, Israel finds itself on a roll. Since the beginning of the year, Israel has assassinated much of the senior leadership of both …
How the ‘Lucy’ Fossil Rewrote the Story of Human Origins (Dave Roos)
The stunning 1974 discovery oered proof that ancient hominins were walking around on two feet some 3.2 million years ago. On November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson was looking for something very specic in the gravel-strewn landscape of northeastern Ethiopia. A year earlier, Johanson and a colleague had made a thrilling discovery in the very …
How Global Public Investment Should Work (Mariana Mazzucato and Jonathan Glennie)
Addressing problems like climate change and biodiversity loss calls for new thinking about how to mobilize the huge volume of financing that will be needed. International cooperation must be re-framed as a collective endeavor in which all countries benefit, contribute, and make investment decisions together. LONDON – Following the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Colombia …
Nicholas grass More… (Nicholas Agar)
This week in Say More, PS talks with Nicholas Agar, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, and the author, most recently, of How to Think about Progress: A Skeptic’s Guide to Technology. Project Syndicate: You recently wrote that the “horizon bias” – the belief that what could happen will happen soon – “is most consequential in …
Human Progress in the Trump Era (Tawakkol Karman, Saul Perlmutter, and Brian Schmidt)
In the face of existential threats like climate change, we have a responsibility to improve our decision-making radically. Since cooperation has always been humanity’s superpower, the first step must be to rebuild a global culture of cooperation, underpinned by a shared, fact-based understanding of reality and trust in institutions. Read More
Trump’s Inflationary Triple Threat (Maurice Obstfeld)
With unified Republican control of the White House and Congress, US President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pursue radical economic policies. By undermining the independence of the Federal Reserve, enacting massive tax cuts, and loosening cryptocurrency regulations, he risks triggering an inflationary surge. Read More
Should Ukraine Have Nuclear Weapons? (Slavoj Žižek)
The situation in Ukraine is becoming increasingly absurd. While American isolationists and the media treat Ukraine’s use of longer-range missiles against Russia as a dangerous escalation, Russia’s fresh wave of attacks on civilian infrastructure is treated as par for the course. Read More