International Politics 01 Mar 2023 Insanity # 17: High Alt. Balloons Need Hot Air & No Shortage of That – How About 75 Sec. Of Earthly Honesty? The past few weeks while all eyes were on “The Balloon” in US skies, the mother earth shattered beneath… Ali
BRI & Middle East Politics, Business & Economy, International Politics 28 Dec 2022 Insanity #16: US & The Grand Game of Tech Poker With China: “Protect & Promote” – All Chips On or Off The Table? We’ve travelled from Emerging Markets--->Emerging Powers --->Emerging Values, full circle back to “Re-Emerging Great Power Competition” One World &… Ali
Business & Economy, International Politics 28 Sep 2022 Insanity #15: UK’s Mini-Budget, Massively Myopic & Mega Detachment – Bailey to Bailout! According to ONS at the end of Quarter 1 UK general government gross debt reached 2,365.4 billion and rising as… Ali
International Politics, Net Zero & Climate Change 20 Sep 2022 Insanity #14: The Temperature of the Truth – Can We Handle It? The political establishments around the world find themselves in an “orgy of crises”: economic + geopolitics + environment Blindfolded by hubris, handcuffed… Ali
International Politics, Net Zero & Climate Change 03 Jul 2022 Insanity #13: Why Twenty – 23 will remain a Catch – 22 & By The Way Who’s The Elephant in The Room? World Food Program & FAO estimate that 19m Afghans = 44% of Ukraine’s population are facing “Acute Food Insecurity”: AFI… Ali
International Politics 21 Feb 2021 Insanity # 6 – Best Time to Invest in Renewables – Gusty Winds of Hot Air Continue to Blow! Calling Out Absurdities & Curating Common Sense for The Greater Good Insanity # 6 –… Ali
International Politics 02 Nov 2020 Insanity #4: DoJo. Donald & Joe Battling it Out in U.S & BoJo Improvising in London – Where is the Intellectual Mojo? $14bn is the total estimated cost of U.S 2020 election = The GDP of Somalia, 400,000 ventilators or 800,000… Ali
International Politics 17 Sep 2020 Insanity #3: When I Hear “New Normal” I Get Goosebumps & Have Nausea. Here’s Why! Over the past 6 months the term “New Normal” has been repeated as a mantra, cast in stone, in… Ali
International Politics 14 Sep 2020 Beirut – 40 Days On I saw a city in the midst of a blast I see a city too small yet too vast It… Ali
International Politics 22 Jul 2020 Insanity #1: Who’s Driving? One Wasted, The Other Colour Blind & Three in the Back The Global Multilateralism Highway Patrol has finally spotted a dangerous “drunk driver at the wheel” No one has tried… Ali