Trump's gangster tactics: The war on Huawei
The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by US President Donald Trump's administration in its intensifying conflict with China. If, as Mark Twain reputedly said, history often rhymes, our era increasingly recalls the period preceding 1914. As with Europe's great powers back then, the United States,...
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Big business capturing UN SDG agenda?
Over the last two decades since the Global Compact, the United Nations has increasingly embraced the corporate sector, most recently to raise finance needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), i.e., for Agenda 2030. But growing big business influence has also compromised analyses, recommendations, policies and programme implementation, undermining...
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SNIPPETS (13-12-2018)
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DT: Articulating the gloom
Given that there are three possibilities to the outcome of this month's general election one can only hope whoever lands up with the Finance Ministry portfolio has nerves of steel. There's an awful mess out there through a combination of massive bank default, shortfall of...
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