Trump on the warpath: Why provoke a nuclear war?
TRUMP THREATENS NORTH KOREA WITH TOTAL DESTRUCTION AT UN ON SEPT 19,2017: "There is a better path: negotiations with Iran and North Korea… And there is a venue for this: the UN Security Council, created in 1945 to negotiate solutions when the world hovers between war and peace."
Fifteen years...
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Growth addiction and practical limits
Economic growth is always good for a country with the caveat that it doesn't become an addiction and results in unplanned growth. Bangladesh has enjoyed its rapid inclusion into the global economy since late 80s and early 90s. The country needed to grow and it did not have the freedom...
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Johann Galtung—the Pied Piper of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Johann Galtung of Norway is not a household name, certainly not outside academia and specific peace groups. Even if he was selected as the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize-winner, many would still be asking Johann who? Given the excoriation of Aung San Suu Kyi's Nobel Peace prize in the last Scopus...
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