By TAN SRI HASMY AGAM and ANIS BAJREKTAREVIC The COVID-19 situation is a very worrying, indeed, alarming matter, not just as a global health and biosafety issue, but potentially as a global security challenge, as well. While the pandemic is being dealt with by the World Health Organisation (WHO), along with other relevant United Nation specialized agencies, the situation
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A look at the freshly released IMF’s World Economic Outlook brings no comforting picture to anyone within the G-7, especially in the United States and European Union: The World Trade Organization (WTO) Round is dead, trade wars are alive, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is rapidly Pakistan-izing while Asia’s core and its Far East are slowing
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By ANIS H. BAJREKTAREVIC A major new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was just released in Korea on Oct. 8, and although it is nearly 800 pages long and includes more than 6,000 scientific references, it can be summarized in few sentences: The average global temperature is now 1 degree Centigrade above its pre-industrial levels. That increase is already
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By JACQUES GOODLOE Special to Pulse News Mexico The idea of an “axis of the willing against illegal migration” composed of Italy, Germany and Austria has been proposed by Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s right populist leader. He spoke about this with German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, a Bavarian conservative who shares the Austrian chancellor’s views on tighter border controls. Kurz said fighting illegal
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By WANG LI Special to Pulse News Mexico On April 21, one week after the U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia would sell S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria unconditionally. Since Moscow denounced the recent U.S.-led missile strikes as an “aggression” against Syria that violated international law, selling S-300 missiles to Syria seems to be
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By AARON DENISON Special to Pulse News Mexico Ever since 1987, when Turkey’s eighth president, Turgut Ozal, first submitted an application, Ankara has been courting European Union (EU) membership. But, until now, Turkey has failed to convince the EU and its member states that it is fit to be a part of the European community. There are many factors that
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By ANANYA BORDOLOI Special to Pulse News Mexico The Brexit choice by British voters to leave the European Union and the electoral victory of U.S. President Donald J. Trump both demonstrate a drastic incongruity with Karl Marx’s prediction of a “proletariat revolution” that would “destroy all previous insecurities for, and insurance of, individual property.” Clearly, Marx stands corrected
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By ÉLIE BELLEVRAT and KIRA WEST Special to Pulse News Mexico Industrial heat makes up two-thirds of industrial energy demand and almost one-fifth of global energy consumption. It also constitutes most of the direct industrial CO2 emitted each year, as the vast majority of industrial heat originates from fossil-fuel combustion. Yet despite these impressive figures, industrial heat is often missing
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