The most dangerous lesson of the war with Iran may not be about Iran.
It may be about the bomb.
Would the US and Israel have attacked Iran if Tehran ...
Recently I have been writing about financial matters and the risks associated with rising interest rates in the US. For sure, the phenomenon is not limited to the United States. ...
Decades of emergency governance, patronage and institutional barriers have weakened civic participation and left Cyprus facing a deepening crisis of political legitimacy.
The collapse of civic participation and institutional authority ...
His book raises questions about chronology, memory and motive
Earl Spencer’s Swan Song: Diana, My Sister was published last Tuesday after it was trailed in an interview he gave ...
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
The summer continued to be a parade of hidden defects within my home. A man with a detective device had to be summoned to trace the invisible ...
Cyprus’ competitive electricity market completes its first year of operation on October 1. Technically, it is functioning. Electricity is traded through day-ahead, intraday, forward and balancing arrangements broadly aligned with EU’...
The return of acute geopolitical risk to global energy markets is changing the way energy security is understood. The central question is no longer simply how to deliver energy as ...
In an anarchic international system devoid of overarching authority to guarantee collective security, small states situated along the maritime perimeter of a regional power inhabit an inherently perilous universe. Because ...
In May 1968, weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Marlon Brando appeared on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Brando – arguably the most influential dramatic actor ...
When Troy Meink, the chief of the US Space Force, announces for no obvious reason that the United States “now has on-orbit space-control weapons”, people naturally assume that something is ...
For decades, international markets treated US government bonds as a zero-risk asset and safe haven during times of crisis. However, the escalating US national debt is causing concern, broadly affecting ...
Democratised market systems in most Western countries, including the diverse economies of the United States and Cyprus, are failing society in that wealth has become increasingly concentrated among the very ...
There has been much doomsday talk recently following a claim by AI experts that unless its progress is curtailed there is a 10 per cent possibility it could destroy humanity in ...
Dolly Parton and Donald Trump are same generation American entertainers. Self-made, a generous philanthropist, Dolly was smart, prolific musically, warmly loved. Trump, born to wealth, a wily taker, a prolific ...
Somebody was bound to sound the alarm eventually. In this case it was a young British artificial intelligence researcher called Jacob Coxon, who quit his job at the AI company ...
The geopolitical contest for strategic primacy across the Levantine Basin has now converged upon the seabed, centred on the execution of the Great Sea Interconnector.
Conceived as a 1,208-kilometre high-voltage ...
It has been a year since Canada, France and the United Kingdom officially recognised the State of Palestine (under Israeli occupation, final border to be determined). The killings by Israelis ...
What if Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not as chaotic as it looks?
Last year, I argued that beneath the spectacle, contradictions and unpredictability, Trump’s foreign policy had ...
Like an old dog barks now and again to remind himself he is a dog, an old Cypriot scribbler feels the need to write about the Cyprus problem now and ...
By Dina-Perla Portnaar
A society reveals its moral temperature through the order it imposes when the guilty are placed behind bars. Justice doesn’t rise from the ashes of neglected ...
“El Niño is being supersized before our eyes,” said United Nations Secretary General António Guterres. “The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, ...
The debate over Cyprus’ high electricity prices has increasingly focused on renewable energy producers and, in particular, whether commercial solar parks are earning excessive returns. This is a legitimate question ...
Last week I wrote about the possibility of a financial crisis in the United States. Given that the three indicators I identified were grounded in fact rather than speculation, I ...
Traditionally, economics and political science were regarded as distinct disciplines. Economic analysis was grounded primarily in the benefits of free competition and countries’ comparative advantages in determining patterns of trade, ...