“Fossil fuels must be phased out with legislation like the Green New Deal”

Noam Chomsky Meanwhile, the world watches as we proceed toward a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. We are approaching perilously close to the global temperatures of 120,000 years ago, when sea…

Byzantine Legend: The Icon of Panagia Eleousa

Venizelos G. Gavrilakis The icon of Panagia Eleousa from Büyükada (Pringipos), one of the Princes’ Islands of Istanbul, represents a remarkable case in Byzantine and post-Byzantine art: a bilateral portable…

Gold is the ultimate belief asset

Joe Wiggins Although it could have easily escaped your attention, as it has received such little fanfare, the price of gold has been rising sharply – recently surpassing $4,000 per…

Waging a battle against sexual and domestic violence

Susan J Brison Women will never achieve equality as long as they are treated as “the frail sex in need of strong men to protect” them. Women in combat isn’t…

Chomsky – The long, shameful history of American terrorism

Noam Chomsky “It’s official: The U.S. is the world’s leading terrorist state, and proud of it.” That should have been the headline for the lead story in the New York…

UN warns of climate catastrophe if no action is taken

Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, warned at the start of the COP30 climate talks that governments failing to transition to a low-carbon…

Legitimacy

Can Baydarol I previously wrote an article about the remarks made by US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria Barrack regarding President Erdoğan, which were along the lines…

The stance against the ‘artificial’ attack must be based on the International

Osman Şenkul Assistant Professor Morgan Frank from the Department of Computer and Information Systems at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computer and Information Sciences, who studies the unemployment risk…

Inflation surged, social assistance increased, and the number of people in poverty reached 11.8 million

Levent Gürses As inflation erodes purchasing power, impoverishment is accelerating. Families have begun selling their assets, taking on debt through credit cards and consumer loans, and migrating from cities to…

CBDC? Computer says no …

Chris Skinner I find it so interesting the debate about CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies), stablecoins (a digital currency backed by real world assets) and cryptocurrencies (a digital currency backed…