Reporters’ diary: Walking in steps of women who stay when husbands migrate in search of livelihoods
Most of the time, to write about migration means telling the stories of people who move: those forced from their homes by natural disasters, conflict, violence or the effects of climate change, or so fed up with limited economic opportunities, corruption and bad governance that the faint glint of possibility...
The Great Reset: Why consumers should keep off fake foods and focus on natural human nutrition
The fake food industry wants people to believe that products produced with precision fermentation are no different from other fermented foods, like kimchi and yogurt. But what they fail to disclose is that the most often used organism in precision fermentation is the common bacteria E. coli. The E. coli...
Projected growth of fake food industry to $3 trillion gives globalists power and control over human health
Fake food is predicted to become a $3 trillion market; consulting firm McKinsey & Company predicted that 60 per cent of all materials in the economy could be produced this way, including fake meat, fake milk and fake fat. Be on the lookout for industry buzzwords like precision fermentation, a...
How ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot can help decolonise aid, ease access to donor funding
A few years ago, I spent months helping to create materials to help local organisations navigate the overcomplicated global humanitarian system. Today, the same tools can be researched and drafted in mere minutes using ChatGPT. With a few back-and-forth exchanges, the artificial intelligence chatbot can quickly summarise funding opportunities for...
Holocaust: Be it actual war or potential nuclear catastrophe, it’s certainly looking mighty ugly right now
In my youth, atomic war was, culturally speaking, all around us. It was even in outer space, as in the 1955 film This Island Earth in which another planet goes up in a version of radioactive flames, scaring the living hell out of the 11-year-old Thomas M. Engelhardt. So, yes,...
Everywhere in our lives there lurks the possibility we might be next victims of nuclear wipe out
Indulge me for a moment. This is how “The Prophecy” in my 1962 high school yearbook began. It was written by some of my classmates in the year we graduated from Friends Seminary in New York City. “Being an historian, I am jotting down these notes out of habit, but...
Why China wants the Ukraine war to drag on: China needs Russian oil and gas for its energy-devouring economy
As a noticeably puffy-faced Vladimir Putin welcomed his “dear friend” Xi Jinping to the Kremlin yesterday, the Russian despot acted as if he was hosting his equal. After all, he no doubt reasoned, China needs Russian oil and gas for its energy-devouring economy. The Kremlin is also a handy ally...
Refugee protection system in US, world is founded colonial and racist; can’t let the displaced lead policy conversations
As the first and only female CEO of an international refugee rights organisation with lived experience of forced displacement, I am painfully aware that colonialism and white supremacy are central to the formation and functioning of the global refugee protection system. Having to continually prove this obvious fact is exhausting,...
Who killed Ouko: 23 years since murder of foreign minister, lawyer warns Kenya is again in a rut
Rising uncertainty and fears that Kenya is sliding back to the dark days of dictatorship, humans rights activists and sticklers for rule of law and constitutionalism have raised the flag that ordinary citizens should be ready to defend freedom of expression and opinion. Human Rights Lawyer and Advocate of the...
Hazy US, Nato policy on Ukraine war sets stage for disruption of world economies and security
One of the most striking aspects about the past year is how little debate we’ve seen over US and Nato policy on Russian-Ukraine war. This is not to say that there is only one right position on Ukraine. Nor does it mean that there are not some deranged people who...
