UN GEO Report: Food & fossil fuel production cause $5bn damage to the environment hourly
According to the UN Global Environment Outlook (GEO) Report, ending harm could play a key role in global transformation. If this is not done, ‘global collapse is inevitable.’ The Global…
Contraction in agriculture and industry could accelerate inflation
Osman Şenkul The deterioration in operating conditions in Turkey’s manufacturing sector continued through the end of the third quarter of 2025. With the ongoing slowdown in new orders and production,…
Going for a drive with a genius
Dr Alexander Elder In almost every generation, there is a genius who changes the course of society. Do you recognise the men in these photos? It would be easier to…
Allocating a small portion of the “net errors and omissions” to farmers would reduce food inflation
Osman Şenkul Germany’s largest bank, in terms of both turnover and number of employees, the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank, drew attention to the “mysteries” in the “net errors and omissions” category…
“We will be able to foresee financial collapses in a year or two”
Hilal Sarı Making the economy as predictable as the weather… Oxford University professor, complex systems scientist, and former physicist J. Doyne Farmer makes precisely this claim in his book Making…
What would happen if the world stopped shopping?
J.B. MacKinnon The 21st century has brought a critical dilemma into sharp relief: we must stop shopping, and yet we can’t stop shopping. At the turn of this new millennium,…
The economy of those who rejoice in weak growth and inflation stubbornly holding at 30%
Levent Gürses Two important figures were announced; one was the third quarter growth figure: 3.7 per cent annually. The other was November’s inflation: according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK),…
The Bhopal disaster and agricultural poisons
Tayfun Özkaya In the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, in Bhopal, a major gas leak occurred on 2 December 1984 at an agricultural chemical factory owned by the American company…
Has the CHP changed?
Can Baydarol Last weekend, starting on Friday and lasting three days, we witnessed the 39th Congress of the CHP. While we thought we would be watching a clash between the…
The greatest threat to “World Peace”
Noam Chomsky As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is…