Russian cyberespionage: Instead of choosing stealthy espionage or disruptive attacks they become embedded
In 2018, Russia’s hacking agency, GRU, infected more than half a million routers worldwide with malware known as VPNFilter and they similarly attempted to create a botnet of hacked firewall devices that was discovered just ahead of Russia’s Ukraine invasion in February. But Mandiant analysts argue that only now are...
America’s addiction to war: To convert war into something sacred means fashioning a deceitful myth
Complexities involving alternatives to Washington’s war-making urges are, of course, not part of the national conversation on Veterans Day. Instead, we are promised that war and this country’s warriors will somehow redeem us as a nation. The unimaginable losses to families, communities, infrastructure and culture in the lands where such...
How US exploits religion to bless violence that hides wars’ hideous destructiveness with sacred sheen
Dear Veterans, I’m a civilian who, like many Americans, has strong ties to the US Armed Forces. I never considered enlisting, but my father, uncles, cousins, and nephews did. As a child I baked cookies to send with letters to my cousin Steven who was serving in Vietnam. My family...
Jailed for not killing: How unknown genetic disorder landed mother 40 years in prison for murder of her 4 children
Around lunchtime on a warm March Day in 1999, Kathleen Folbigg went to check on her sleeping 18-month-old daughter and found her pale and unresponsive. Folbigg, alone in her house in Singleton, Australia, called an ambulance while she tried her best to resuscitate the child. “My baby’s not breathing,” she...
How Republicans aborted hopes of snatching Senate and House control from Democrats in US midterms
In the middle of an election night when Democrats were supposed to lose just about everything, CNN chief congressional correspondent Manu Raju stood at the edge of the House Republican Caucus “victory party” and reviewed the results as of midnight on the East Coast. The news ticker at the bottom...
We’re back to 20th century when people researched out of sheer curiosity, love or madness
In July this year, attended the Animal Behaviour Society conference in Costa Rica, which I found to be very LGBTQ-friendly. The organisation had planned to have its 2023 meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee. But I was one of the more than 50 per cent of society members who voted not to...
How gun violence, racism, healthcare and divisive politics are repelling foreign scientists in US universities
For the past five decades, the United States has been a top destination for international early-career researchers to do their training in a PhD or postdoctoral post. Since the 1960s, post-cold-war US diplomatic policies have aimed to attract foreign scholars, especially those in then-budding democracies. After a steady increase, numbers...
Arsenal win over Chelsea wasn’t a fluke, they’re genuine EPL contenders, pretenders no more
They keep on finding a way to win. They keep on staying top of the table. And now you have to say it – Mikel Arteta and his men are serious, the real deal. While the Gunners have beaten Spurs and Liverpool at home, they self-combusted on their previous proper...
This sick joke of Qatar World Cup born out of corruption and stadiums were built by modern-day slaves
Dear President and Secretary-General, The FIFA World Cup in Qatar is now just around the corner and excitement about the world’s premier football festival should be building globally as we count down the days to kick-off in Doha on Sunday, November 20. I would like to commend you both on...
Liverpool boss Klopp on Qatar World Cup fiasco: ‘It’s not like mythical Aladdin with his wonder lamp’
Jurgen Klopp has admitted he has little appetite to watch the World Cup after being left cold by the tournaments timing and the issues around it. Liverpool’s manager intends to take a holiday while the group stages are being contested in Qatar and will then spend the rest of the...
