By Anna Bisignano
Chad is a country rich in oil and raw materials, but it is also rich in renewable energy (read our country file here). The country has in fact on average a level of solar irradiation between 2,000...
"The first victim of conflicts is always the truth"
- Ivo Andrič
By Emanuele Giordana*
The wars of the 21st century have more eyes upon them than they did in the 20th. Perhaps, therefore, able to mitigate Ivo Andrič's famous aphorism that...
By Marco Grisanti
One thing is certain: Bitcoin is divisive. On the one hand, there are actors like the Russian Central Bank, who want to ban cryptocurrency because of the risk of strong financial instability that they imply, as they...
Nairobi (from our correspondent)
In 2022 only, ten internet shutdowns in six countries around the world had already caused a loss of more than $621 million. And from 2019 to date, with 257 major service outages in 46 countries, the...
The war in Ukraine has raised concerns about the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia and a possible subsequent US response. With these infographics - curated by Valentina Ochner - we try to give an overview of Russian...
By Alfred W. McCoy* – from TomDispatch
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Consider us at the edge of the sort of epochal change not seen for centuries, even millennia. By the...
By Francesca Romana
Social media for peace: this is the name of the UNESCO project involving Bosnia and Herzegvina among three pilot countries for its trial run until 2023. As can be seen from the project's web page, its objectives...
by Scott Ritter * - Special to Consortium News, OtherNews
The origins of Israel’s intelligence failure on the Hamas attacks can be traced to the decision to rely on AI instead of the contrarian analysis born of the earlier intelligence...
This infographic is the most up-to-date, as it appears in the first English edition of the Atlas of Wars and Conflicts in the World, out later this Spring. A graphic data visualization helps us answer timely questions, such as:
Which...
by Ambra Visentin
Wars and armies are accelerating the climate crisis. And as the major powers gather in Egypt for COP27 on climate, their political representatives are reluctant to talk about the elephant in the room: the decisive impact of...
