The memorandum: a bitter internal reaction
Xi Jinping’s visit to Italy in late March resulted in the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and Italy: a roaring success for the Chinese President, but a little less for Conte. The memorandum formalises Italy’s long-time announced intention to take part in China’s belt road…

Saving America – Saving Capitalism. Start with the Truth. Ray Dalio is a Patriotic Genius – Can Lionel Inspire the President & the Public? Robert David Steele Bottom line up front: no amount of truth is going to get past the White House Deep State filters unless we can mobilize a special channel. Lionel of LionelMedia.com is that channel…

John Brenner, a member of British Pugwash, has prepared the below review of last year’s Sir Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture: On 21st November, British Pugwash was co-organisator with the Polish Embassy, the Sir Joseph Rotblat Memorial Lecture. The guest speaker was Sir Rodric Braithwaite, a distinguished British diplomat, now retired. He shared his…

TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE: Social Engineering the Masses by Daniel Estulin (Trine Day, 2015) 6 Stars – A Seminal Work Integrating Deep Looks from Others – A Mind-Altering Soul-Enhancing Book Given the author’s past as a former Russian intelligence employee, I have considered the possibility that this book is an active disinformation treatise. While…

Brexit is a calamity. For the Irish border, Brexit is a travesty. Brexit creates uncertainty about the continued peace in the north of Ireland. For the Republic of Ireland, Brexit also means complications for trade, not only with Northern Ireland but also with the Republic of Ireland’s largest market and trading partner, the island of Britain…

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…