New Economist Intelligence Unit report looks at the intersection of technology, crime and illicit trade
The report focuses on three technologies—encryption, blockchain and 3D printing—and how they benefit criminals and law enforcement The tension this creates can be resolved on the enforcement side with cooperation and trust-building HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 17 March 2021 – Advances in technology bring many benefits, as the speed of development of the covid-19 vaccines demonstrates. But they also create new tensions across a […]
By David Trujillo The door is wide open now to the people in the United States. The opportunity for socialism is a serious option for a new political future. Let’s get real: The Republicans have abdicated democratic responsibilities. They have given up on our basic democratic values and the U.S. Constitution. The Republican Party […]
By John Wight As only he can, Albert Camus in his classic 1947 novel, The Plague, mines the human condition in the midst of a crisis in which solidarity, selflessness and mutuality are the means of survival and in which individualism, selfishness and self-regard are death itself. Camus: “This whole thing is not […]
By Richard Rudkin Recent events of the Labour leadership in respect of their treatment of the left is a little like Groundhog Day. The centrists apportion blame to the left for the election defeat, while completely ignoring their own role. And now, once again, the left is tasked with trying to restore socialism to […]
By Barun Das Gupta India-Sri-Lanka relations under the presidency of Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be interesting to follow. It may be recalled that when Gotabaya became the president of Sri Lanka in November, 2019, there was palpable unease in the South Block. Both he and his brother Mahinda (former president and present prime minister) are […]
