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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 04:53
Stigma is an awful burden for business. But what if – for some companies – stigma is an asset? That’s what I and an international team of researchers set out to investigate in a new paper published in the Journal of Management Studies. We examined how consumers around the world responded to firms in stigmatised industries Continue reading »
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Sun, 08/01/2023 - 04:56
What can we expect in 2023 about future human prospects? Will current threats to long-term human survival, continue to increase or will they begin to diminish as a consequence of responses to current threats?” We need governments everywhere to recognise the very serious threats that now face our species. There are now 8 billion humans Continue reading »
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 04:50
Israel’s new administration will be one that does not conceal its intention to preserve and further entrench the apartheid tyranny over the Palestinians, while fully cultivating Jewish supremacy as a political and legal credo. Salmon P. Chase, a renowned 19th century American lawyer and abolitionist, once said that no one’s rights are protected until everyone’s Continue reading »
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 04:51
Geopolitical interests between the Anglo-American establishment and the Sino-Russian-led axis will clash over the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route. First published in The Cradle January 2, 2023 On 12 December 2022, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) hosted a conference on the future of Eurasia’s Middle Corridor, a transport and energy infrastructure development project that stretches from Continue reading »
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Sat, 07/01/2023 - 04:56
Moscow has now warned that Japan’s ‘openly unfriendly positions’ make delayed peace treaty talks impossible. Australia has some connections with those ‘unfriendly positions.’ They include joining in sanctions against Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Sanctions are an ugly business and Moscow is right to react against them. They can be as destructive to a Continue reading »