Using The Kurds Again: Will the Iranian Kurds Enter The Iran War on The Side of The United States and Israel?
The United States has a long record of using the Kurds as auxiliaries when fighting against its enemies in the Middle East. The formula is deceptively simple. Promise the Kurds their autonomy or even independence if they will support the U.S. Usually this...
To understand the stance of Turkey’s political class and society regarding the attacks on Iran, two main points must be examined: the fact that Turkey’s secularist circles were raised within an anti-imperialist discourse, and the Palestinian and Islamic sensitivities of the political Islamists. Additionally, both groups share a common sentiment: the belief that the United States and the West are trying to divide Turkey,...
Overview of COP30
The 30th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is being...
Coffee, one of the world’s most traded commodities and a daily ritual for billions, faces an existential threat from climate change. Rising temperatures, erratic...
Pharmaceuticals in the environment: The global challenge of pharmaceutical pollution and how governments, industry, prescribers, and patients can respond
Ever wonder where all our medicine...
What comes after growth? Reimagining our economies for people and planet
Self-proclaimed radical economist, Kate Raworth, has remarked that the only thing in nature that...
Nature underpins the global economy in fundamental yet frequently overlooked ways. While certain natural resources, such as timber or rare metals, are traded with...
