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A Strategy for U.S. Competitiveness in Innovation
Innovation power is playing a critical role in today’s world order, affecting global economies, militaries, and societies. Panelists discuss the strategy needed for the United States to compete in this space to ensure its national security, economic prosperity, and global influence.
Categories: Defense Policy
Kenya tax protests turn deadly with parliament storming, police gunfire
Protests against a bill that would raise taxes turned deadly in Kenya as police fired on demonstrators.
Categories: South Asia
US surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis
Surgeon general says widespread gun violence has led to 'unimaginable pain' for victims across the country.
Categories: South Asia
In-Person DC Roundtable: National Security and the U.S. Pharma and Biotech Industries
The COVID-19 pandemic and chronic U.S. drug shortages highlight the health security and strategic importance of U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology capabilities during and between pathogenic crises. Geopolitical competition and interest in industrial policy for biotechnology further underscore the national security role of domestic biopharmaceutical infrastructure. Policymakers confront competing health, economic, and strategic priorities in maximizing innovation in technology, business models, and health-care systems in facilitating safe, accessible, secure, and sustainable products, services, and supply chains.
Please join our speakers, Monique K. Mansoura, executive director for global health security and biotechnology at The MITRE Corporation, and Victor Suarez, Colonel (ret.), U.S. Army, senior fellow (visiting) at The Council on Strategic Risks and founder of BluZoneBio, to explore challenges facing the U.S. pharma and biotech industries and approaches to strengthening the national security resilience of those industries in a world marked by health and geopolitical threats.
Categories: Defense Policy
In-Person DC Roundtable: National Security and the U.S. Pharma and Biotech Industries
The COVID-19 pandemic and chronic U.S. drug shortages highlight the health security and strategic importance of U.S. pharmaceutical and biotechnology capabilities during and between pathogenic crises. Geopolitical competition and interest in industrial policy for biotechnology further underscore the national security role of domestic biopharmaceutical infrastructure. Policymakers confront competing health, economic, and strategic priorities in maximizing innovation in technology, business models, and health-care systems in facilitating safe, accessible, secure, and sustainable products, services, and supply chains.
Please join our speakers, Monique K. Mansoura, executive director for global health security and biotechnology at The MITRE Corporation, and Victor Suarez, Colonel (ret.), U.S. Army, senior fellow (visiting) at The Council on Strategic Risks and founder of BluZoneBio, to explore challenges facing the U.S. pharma and biotech industries and approaches to strengthening the national security resilience of those industries in a world marked by health and geopolitical threats.
Categories: Defense Policy
Kenya’s Ruto says anti-tax protests “highjacked by organised criminals”
Kenyan President Ruto says anti-tax protests “hijacked by organised criminals”
Categories: South Asia
Iraq to NSA spying: The biggest revelations by Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks unearthed documents ranging from conflicts within the US Democrats to toxic waste dumping in West Africa.
Categories: South Asia
US sanctions ‘sprawling shadow banking network’ that helps Iran’s military
Those sanctioned are involved in the sale of Iranian oil and petrochemicals, money that pays for weapons, proxy groups.
Categories: South Asia
A right to drink? Inside the debate to protect US workers against the heat
As summer intensifies, so too does the scrutiny over the US’s lack of workplace protections against environmental heat.
Categories: South Asia
Pentagon chief calls for urgent diplomacy to avoid Israel-Hezbollah war
Meeting with Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant, US Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin warns against 'catastrophe' of wider war.
Categories: South Asia
As Biden and Trump prep for the 2024 presidential debate, what’s at stake?
After facing each other in two 2020 debates, Biden and Trump are set for a rematch as they seek to pull ahead in 2024.
Categories: South Asia
In Kenya, tomorrow is here
We are witnessing the latest, and most glorious, stage of a revolution 40 years in the making.
Categories: South Asia
Kenyan police shoot tax demonstrators amid violent parliament breach
Protests over a controversial tax and finance bill in Kenya turned deadly with police reportedly opening fire.
Categories: South Asia
Russia bans 81 EU media outlets in tit-for-tat move
Moscow responds to a broadcasting ban on four Russian outlets that the EU accused of spreading Kremlin propaganda.
Categories: South Asia
Extent of forced hunger crisis in Gaza revealed in UN report
Four children have starved to death this week in Gaza, where a new UN report has revealed the extent of forced hunger.
Categories: South Asia
Afghans celebrate reaching cricket T20 World Cup semi-finals
Thousands of Afghans celebrated in the streets of Khost after defeating Bangladesh in cricket.
Categories: South Asia
Julian Assange is on his way to freedom – but the fight is far from over
The forces that imprisoned Julian for the 'crime' of doing journalism are still not defeated.
Categories: South Asia
Protesters storm parliament building in Nairobi
Al Jazeera’s Malcolm Webb reports from the scene as police open fire on protesters in Nairobi
Categories: South Asia
ICC issues arrest warrants for Russian army chief, former defence minister
Court accuses them of war crimes and crimes against humanity for directing attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine.
Categories: South Asia
What have Palestine activists in Germany been facing?
We look at the violence and intimidation that face those in Germany calling for an end to Israel’s war on Gaza.
Categories: South Asia
