Intelligence agents working for the United Kingdom have employed “dirty tricks” including sexual “honey traps” to ensnare rival agents, hackers, suspected terrorists, arms dealers, and other criminals, according to documents leaked by Edward Snowden. Documents…
Category: Global Issues
The United States increases its pressure on Ukraine while preparing sanctions against it. It sends a high-level Foggy Bottom official to visit the country only a month after her previous visit. US Assistant…
Get the cure before you become part of the swarm. Antidote #1: The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Astra Taylor, Metropolitan Books, 2014. Antidote #2: The Massachusetts Institute of…
On Sunday, January 26th ,the former NSA contractor, whistleblower, and US fugitive, Edward Snowden gave a candid 30 minute interview for the German television network ARD. The problem with this interview is that in…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stands now at a crossroads of his people’s national struggle for liberation and independence as well as of his political life career, cornered between the rock of his own…
Cecilia MalmstroemEU Home Affairs Commissioner: “The political commitment to really root out corruption seems to be missing” “Price of not acting is too high” The extent of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it…
The Munich security conference is a unique podium to address the problems of world politics. Once a year politicians, heads of international organizations, diplomats and security experts get together. No binding decisions are…
This strategy aims to replace American hegemony, regionally and globally, with a more multi-polar distribution of power and influence. The United States is not the first imperial power in decline whose foreign policy debate has…
China’s demographic landscape is rapidly changing, and the government has responded by launching ambitious social and health service reforms to meet the changing needs of the country’s 1.3 billion people. This week, officials approved a…
On 24 January, a senior officer in the Israeli military intelligence held a special briefing, at which it was reported that there is «the possibility» of Israel rethinking its strategy in the Syrian conflict. The reason?…