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Reading Time: < 1 minute With the world facing the ongoing battle with Covid-19 and a race to find a vaccination and sustainable treatment drugs, the United Nations has recognized the threat and has put forth a request to assist in curving the threat of this virus. While most organizations, governments, and businesses have turned their attention to reducing the…
Reading Time: 2 minutes This website, this entire project, is an extension of something outside of ourselves. It is something new that we, as friends above everything, people with shared interest and a mutual respect of the diversity inherent in our different identities, have created to be an outlet where we can foster new ideas and have realistic, pragmatic…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Official name: COVID-19 Also known as: 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease; SARS-CoV-2 Type: Coronaviruses; there are many different types as the name indicates, the virus is related to the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that caused an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002-2003. It is however not the same virus. Classification: respiratory illness Causes/origin: The…
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is a re-post of a blog post I did on own blog in 2016. Three years later and Brexit still hasn’t happened or has it? The one constant in Europe thus far has been populism. The word Brexit shows everything wrong with politics these days. And not just with politics and politicians but also…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in 2016 I wrote the article below as a dire warning for the children that were being subjected to the Syrian conflict in all its forms, as well as to what it means for us internationally. Now, three years later the situation has not changed and there is no end in sight. The Syrian…
Reading Time: < 1 minute By Ernest J. Moniz And Sam Nunn The year is 2020. The Russian military is conducting a large exercise in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic Sea that borders the NATO member states Lithuania and Poland. An observer aircraft from the Western alliance accidentally crosses into Russian airspace and is shot down by a…
Reading Time: < 1 minute BY DANIEL B. SHAPIRO, YOEL GUZANSKY The U.S.-sponsored Peace to Prosperity workshop in Manama, Bahrain, last month—an effort spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, Jared Kushner, to sell the economic portion of a broader Middle East peace plan—had limited success in its stated purpose of advancing Palestinian economic development. But it showed more…
