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Credit: UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) UNITED NATIONS, Feb 26 2021 (IPS) - A sign outside a laundry in New York city had a frivolously flippant slogan: “We launder dirty clothes, not dirty money.” And a 2019 movie titled “Laundromat,” based on a book ‘Secrecy World’ by Pulitzer Prize winning author Jake Bernstein, exposed the byzantine world of money laundering. That’s the insidiously darker side of the world’s financial system – with millions of dollars in ill-gotten ...

Date Time Lab launches interdisciplinary Space Science Institute What are the next world-class, game-changing concepts and technologies that will address the most important questions in astrophysics or planetary science? Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers will soon be better equipped to answer this question with the launch this month of a new Space Science Institute (SSI), intended to boost cross-discipline collaboration and discovery. Sponsored jointly by LLNL’s Physic...

Iranian public opinion in the Biden era Wed, Feb 24, 2021 1:30 PM A discussion surrounding the polling data on Iranian public opinion by the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. As the global community continues to grapple with the coronavirus (COVID-19), the Atlantic Council is open for business. Our business, meetings, and events, however, are occurring virtually. For more information, please read an update from our President and CEO. The election of President Biden has...

Experts from across government, the private sector and security research community will vote on the most pressing issues in the field.

Article content The heads of security intelligence agencies seldom open up. When they do, it is a sign to pay attention. Canadians witnessed a very rare event recently. The director of CSIS, David Vigneault, gave a speech – virtually, of course – to the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Ottawa. In this all too infrequent occurrence, he talked about what keeps him up at night as the head of Canada’s premier spy agency. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try re...

Published February 15, 2021, 3:19 PM The Manila City government has completed its first wave of distribution of food boxes under its Manila COVID-19 Food Security Program.  At least 250,054 food boxes have been distributed in the city’s first and second districts as of Monday, Feb. 15, data from the city government showed. Distribution began on Feb. 10. Kenneth Amurao, director of Manila’s Public Services Department, said they are eyeing to finish distribution in the city’s third distric...

As the Biden administration takes office, Defense360’s Transition46 series provides insights from CSIS’s International Security Program scholars on the challenges the new administration faces and recommendations for what should change in U.S. defense strategy, forces, operations, and institutions. Our scholars each week will publish short pieces drawing from their expertise to

A new report entitled “Chinese Technology Platforms Operating in the United States” sets forth a framework for understanding the various threats posed by Chinese-owned technology platforms operating in the United States and for assessing the various costs and benefits of proposed responses to these threats.

Biden’s Pledge to Pull Back in Yemen Is Full of Holes While he’s breaking with his predecessors, Biden’s rhetoric leaves room for the Saudis to slip out of commitments. Mohammed Huwais/Getty Images In a major foreign policy address at the State Department on February 4, President Joe Biden announced an end to U.S. support for the war in Yemen waged by a coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, marking what activists hope is a significant turning point in the years-l...

Hady Amr, the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, is coming in with a fresh perspective, regional relationships and years of experience – and he has a lot of work to do