Mel Gurtov

  • A needless provocation

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was intent on visiting Taiwan and did so despite President Biden’s misgivings and criticisms from many China experts....

  • Powerful spyware

    We have just learned about a powerful spyware known as Pegasus, manufactured and leased by the Israeli company NSO Group and capable of extracting...

  • New world disorder

    After the demise of the Soviet Union and the US intervention that crushed Saddam Hussein’s attack on Kuwait in 1991, President George H W Bush...

  • Report card

    As Americans see the evidence of climate-influenced destruction, they’re on edge: Seventy-two percent of those polled late last year considered...

  • While Rome burns

    By now we’re accustomed to learning that every year brings record high temperatures around the world. Extreme weather, says Prof Michael Mann of...

  • Trump’s war on the environment

    As has been widely reported, the resignations, retirements, and constraints placed upon government scientists crimp the executive branch’s...

  • Reaching Paris

    History may record that the planet’s climate crisis was avoided thanks to the efforts of three countries: China, Germany, and France. Or not....

  • Creeping threat

    Donald Trump’s presidency has gotten so much attention that the latest threats to climate stability have received only passing notice. To be...

  • In the times of Donald Trump

    Those of us who appreciate the unconventional have to have second thoughts after watching Donald J Trump in action. All the more so when it comes to...

  • Bad day in court

    The Permanent Court of Arbitration under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea ruled on July 12 in favor of the Philippines’ suit to...

  • The one percent

    One of the many tools at the disposal of multinational corporations for maximising profits and undermining state sovereignty is moving operations...

  • Terrorism, American style

    As the popularity of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and other race-baiting antidemocratic politicians attest, a significant portion of the American public...