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Desert Locust outbreak in northeast Africa and Saudi Arabia
Locusts have formed plagues since prehistory. The ancient Egyptians carved them on their tombs and the insects are mentioned in the Iliad, the Bible and the Quran. Swarms have devastated crops and been a contributory cause...
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Sustainability: The ability to sustain life
No matter what your beliefs, views, morals, ethics, economic principles, etc. are we all share in the desire to sustain life because we too are life. No matter what your beliefs, views, morals, ethics, economic principles, etc. are we all share in the desire to...
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School climate strikes: why adults no longer object to . . .
School climate strikes: why adults no longer have the right to object to their children taking radical action Rupert Read, University of East Anglia A worldwide wave of school climate strikes, begun by the remarkable Greta Thunberg, has reached the UK. Some critics...
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“To confront environmental catastrophe, we need urgent political transformation.” Professes Laurie Laybourn-Langton in this article where he maintains that: It’s no longer climate change we’re living through. It’s environmental breakdown Getty In 1962, American...
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Why has growth been the panacea to any development
Since time immemorial, and all in the MENA region know that growth or rather the lack of it for centuries, has brought only dire consequences. Why has growth been the panacea to any development never questioned? Richard Heinberg, author and...
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Parliamentary or Presidential systems
The following article as written by Gulcin Ozkan, Professor of Economics, University of York and Richard McManus, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Canterbury Christ Church University could in the context of the MENA region, be more inspirational than educational. It must...
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Middle Eastern economies more of a political than economic challenge
Al Jazeera’s Business & Economy produced this article on how and why Diversification of Middle Eastern economies is more a political than an economic challenge. Why are Middle Eastern economies struggling to diversify? by Adeel Malik Why have Middle East's...
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Fossil-fuel Executives are Mass Murderers
It isn't hyperbole to say that fossil-fuel executives are mass murderers. We should put them on trial for crimes against humanity. It’s Time to Try Fossil-Fuel Executives for Crimes Against Humanity By Kate Aronoff Then–US secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the former...
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Vision 2030: Towards a New Saudi Arabia or No Saudi Arabia?
By Andrew Korybko in Oriental Review on February 7th, 2019. Saudi Arabia clinched 37 deals worth $53 billion after announcing that it intends to attract upwards of $426 billion in total over the next decade as it seeks to advance Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s...
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