In looking back on Donald Trump’s rise to power, there is something much larger at work here that transcends human understanding. History can point to one single factor for Trump’s miraculous ability to withstand multiple blows from numerous adversaries in the political ring while blindly throwing and landing knockout punches with little to no…

Financial Technology is the provision of financial services and products through the most advanced information technologies (ICT). FinTech is a subset of "financial innovation"; it is defined by the Financial Stability Board as “technologically enabled financial innovation that can result in new business models, applications, processes…

On 3 and 4 March 2019 a small team from Pugwash held a number of consultations and meetings in Ramallah and Jerusalem on the situation in Palestine. The impetus was to better understand the challenges of day-to-day life for Palestinians living in the West Bank, particularly what may have changed since the election of Trump in the United States, and…

It is not a thankful job to write an analytical blog amid the din and noise of media cacophony, which we have been witnessing for more than a month now since the Pulwama suicide attack in Jammu & Kashmir on St. Valentine's Day killing over 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force – the Indian equivalent of Russian National Guards, evoking…

Student / Young Pugwash UK held its fourth Annual Conference in February 2019, titled ‘Pugwash Peace & Disarmament Conference‘. It explored the prospects for arms control and disarmament over the coming years, with focuses on nuclear weapons and emerging technologies. The conference brought together over 70 participants, including young…

INTERVIEW Review of the New Book Kushner Inc. – Greed, Ambition, Corruption. Q. You are the top non-fiction reviewer that we know of, with over 2,500 reviews posted across 97 categories of non-fiction. Last month we did an interview entitled “Understanding Donald Trump and the White House: A few books” (Tehran Times, 13 February 2019). Two…

Too much ink has been spilled on US-China trade war and its ramifications on both countries and its rippling effects on the world. “Rejecting the idea of globalism and embracing nationalism” American trade policy is meandering through a path that leads US to isolation and a situation which creates a void for new alliances which are not lead by US…

This article should be noticed in Russia: China Unicom’s big bet on open source It is a huge mistake by China to pursue 5G technology. Developed in Israel, it is forbidden in Israel because this is a genocidal and ecocidal technology that demands a localized infrastructure that is unaffordable and unsustainable. 5G @ Phi Beta Iota The emphasis…

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You live in any corner of the world, your origin may be French, German, British, Russian, Middle Eastern, African, Chinese, New Zealander, Australian, American, Italian, Spanish, Singaporean, Pakistani and his native India, people know name of this Super Star after telling a couple of lines about him if not instantly. And there is fairly good reason…

Have you ever been brought down to the depth of your chaotic heart and soul that you feel so broken, lost and alienated in all that surrounds you? A place where the heart never feels at home, or at peace, or in synch with all that others say identifies with you as a being. Only those who have been there will know how broken this place is. How endless…

Hackers from Pakistan attacked over 90 Indian government websites and critical systems within hours of the Pulwama suicide strike by a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist in which 40 soldiers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) were killed, senior officials in the security establishment said on condition of anonymity. ‘There was an unusual surge of…