Global South Youth Flocks to ‘Isolated’ Russia

By any metric, the World Youth Festival running in the Sirius federal territory (Sochi, southern Russia) on March 1-7 is a stunning achievement: a sort of Special Cultural Operation (SCO) encompassing the young Global South….

Water – The Abundant Scarcity

“Water, Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink….” These are the lines from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The speaker, a sailor on a stranded ship, is surrounded by…