By Dada Jitendrananda Most people share values of fairness and justice. We want everyone to be able to lead a happy and fulfilling life. The…
By Andy Douglas Audio Version: Is Prout a form of socialism? Socialism with a spiritual face? Or is it something completely different? Anyone who critiques…
By Dada Jitendrananda This reflection on history was prompted by the vexed debate on the teaching of history that flares up from time to time…
By Roar Bjonnes As many as 70 countries are due to go to elections in 2024. In many of these countries, the choice is simple…
By Dada Jitendrananda I arrived in Japan in 1984 at the height of Japan’s booming economy. Japan’s post-war project had been reconstruction, and development of…
A company from Dubai, UAE, called Blue Carbon is buying control over vast areas of land in Africa. Why? On the surface it looks like…
By Andy Douglas Off a winding northeastern Missouri county road in the middle of the US, a patchwork expanse of houses, fields and community buildings…
By Dada Vedaprajinananda An August 21, 2023, article in The New Yorker magazine by Ronan Farrow paints a disturbing picture of Elon Musk’s powerful role…
By Antii Kivivalli. Eucalyptus trees are native mostly to Australia, but as they seem to grow well and fast and provide therefore an effective source…
By Howard Nemon. In 2001, the term BRIC was conceived by a Goldman Sachs economist as a way to keep track of the largest developing…
By Andy Douglas. Hiphop is fifty! Fifty years ago a musical style was born when African-American youth gathered to create and explore a new way…
By Antti Kivivalli. Back in 1945 George Orwell published his novel, Animal Farm, where animals have taken power and and “all animals are equal” –…
By Howard Nemon On August 11, Russia launched its Luna-25 mission that will attempt a soft-landing on the south pole of the moon. In 2019,…
As the film “Barbie” breaks box office records, now is a good moment to reflect upon the role of corporations in the toy and entertainment…
By Shriraksha Mohan As I sat down in a movie theater to watch Christopher Nolan’s movie, Oppenheimer, I had expected to be entertained by Nolan’s…
If ever there were an instance of the need for local control over resources, this is one. In Arizona in the drought-stricken western United States,…
Does Finland want to be known like Wuhan? Are the Finnish officials and fur farmers gambling with bird flu? Finland is still a country of…
The other day I was visiting a friend in another city and we had an interesting conversation. We wanted to go to the grocery store…