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It is not in China’s interests to force unification with Taiwan
Talkin’ World War III China Blues
It is time to re-assess US global strategy toward China
The Moroccan new development model defines a national ambition
Morocco’s new development model
A path for change
Springtime begins in Saken
Change of heart without failure Mr. Putin
A small herd of Bull Caribou migrate across the tundra of the North slope Alaska © mlharing
Territories of Life
The past, present, and future of conservation on earth
In the election cycle of 2015-2016, the electoral contributions by the oil and gas industry reached $104 million
Do super PACs threaten our democracy and climate?
The impact on the electoral contributions of the oil and gas industry
Brazil is a rich country, with a poor majority and a prodigiously rich elite
Squandering Brazil's Resources
A rich country?
Time is running out to prevent catastrophe climate changes
Giving legal teeth to climate action
Germany’s highest court sets an example for the world
Patents give profit-making private subjects the exclusive right of ownership
We all have the right to life
No one has the power to violate it
Cairo Conference 1921
Cairo Conference 1921
Understanding the contemporary future of the Middle East
Between 2000 and 2020 globally gas emissions have increase for over 40%
Cutting greenhouse gas emissions
Governments are primarily responsible for sustainability
The fundamental role of the larger “Love Economy” sectors
Valuing love economies
Revealed as driving positive human evolution!
A disproportionate war on the inhabitants of Gaza
The war on Gaza
There is only one road out
The climate crisis is a superb example of a global challenge
Climate: the collaboration crisis
Climate crisis is the most daunting challenge ever confronted by humankind
Carbon-free energy
100% carbon-free energy by 2035
Devil’s in the details
The Sea-based, X-band Radar at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in 2013
HAARP is reborn
Is North Sea at risk?
The millions who voted for the plebiscite demanding a new Constitution also want a new country and a new way of doing politics
Chile: the paths of the left
The political scenario before the presidential elections
NFT’s are a brilliant concept that further evolves the simple formula of trading cryptocurrency
Non-Fungible Tokens mania
How are they making people millionaires?
Alberto Fernández and Cristina Kirchner
Argentina, always Argentina
Alberto Fernández has to come to terms with his Vice President's legacy
The pandemic has arrived when the world was facing a most complex set of challenges
The impact of Covid-19 on the future globalisation
The coronavirus crisis is a kind of a stress test for governments
Atmospheric CO2 concentrations are increasing and are currently higher than they have been for the last three million years
Global warming
Plain truths, tall tales and moral hemiplegia
In the “war of satellites” Mr. Musk is developing SpaceX's Starlink satellite constellation
The future is going to be great
Spacefaring civilization will not bring a future better than the past!
The goal is to overcome the segmentation in health care and to work on an integrated medical care network
Funding health care from an economist’s point of view
Fiscal sustainability in health care
Morocco King launched a project to generalize social protection
Social protection in Morocco
A decisive turning point on the way to the achievement of sustainable and balanced development
India suffocates and buckles at the knees under the worst wave of coronavirus the world has seen
Covid’s Indian onslaught
Sinking submarine without life support
With the Covax-initiative a giant transfer of Covid-19 vaccines to developing countries is taking place
Biden’s life-saving turnaround
Vaccines for everyone
We must decide together where the center lies
The king is dead. Long live the people!
How to hide a democracy that is not one
Usury is certainly nothing new
Usury as an economic system in Brazil
Nowadays, Brazil is not only facing inequality brought by the pandemic
Dumbarton Oaks in Washington, D.C., was the location of the conference in 1944
From the non-aligned movement to active non-alignment
History and lessons
Cyprus energy resources
Securitization of energy & the frozen Cyprus conflict
A blessing or a curse of Cyprus energy resources?
In the remote mountains of the Hindu Kush not only Soviet attempts to install a pro-communist regime but also Western efforts to establish a liberal democracy by force now ended in disaster
The Cold War only ends with NATO’s defeat in the Hindu Kush
Afghanistan is a geopolitical game changer for the West
Covid-19 is the first global pandemic of the 21st century
Sustainability of reactions to Covid-19
What were the main mistakes committed?
Now is the time for action
Time to dethrone economics
Economy versus ecology
At the present time, mankind is losing the battle against climate crisis
The cognition, collaboration and creativity crisis
Climate crisis is the most daunting challenge ever confronted by humankind
When a global transformation is guided by ecological economic growth the result is an enormous reduction in pollution, depletion and ecological damage, and an increase in sustainable economic activity and wealth
Ecological markets and capitalism in the 21st century
We are at the beginning of the great transformation, from industrial to ecological civilization
The stereotype of mother does not seem to jive well with the workforce
The mother of all workers
The difficulties that women encounter when they go back to work after taking time to raise their kids
Angela Merkel and José Ramos-Horta
Angela Merkel, a tribute
A letter to the Norwegian Nobel Peace Committee
Bansky, Protest
Secret project Hamelin
A dynamically catastrophic scenario
The Covid-19 pandemic in America has been a year spent in the “wilderness”
Lent: a model for societal reflection
A time for self-examination and reflection
The Colorado River is reduced to a trickle when it reaches the Pacific
Water and life
A critical resource
The statue of Nestor Kirchner removed in 2019 from the headquarters of the General Secretariat of UNASUR in Quito, Ecuador
Union of South American Nations
Awaiting its resurrection
Overnight, without warning, the world as we knew it, changed
The freshness we expect from the new normal
Projects that flourished among the swings of this emergency
Behaving sustainably requires innovation
Sustainopreneurship is the future
Entrepreneurship and innovation for sustainability
During its history of 245 years the USA has been at war for 228 years
Think tanks
Some think tanks fabricate findings purely to justify USA's war machines
Middle East, a continuous conflict region
Deadly virus from the Middle East
Danger ahead
Banksy, Flower Thrower
The tradition of anti-democratic thinking
Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Spengler... against democracy
Wangda Sherpa honing his pre-summit mountaineering skills
Say no to drugs
Message from Everest
The main objective of ar-Rabita Mohammadia of the Ulemas is to promote a tolerant and open Islam.
A tolerant and open Islam
Morocco king creates ar-Rabita Mohammadia of Ulemas to fight radicalism
The emission reduction expected in the NDCs for 2030 situate us very far from achieving the Paris Agreement’s temperature stabilization goal
Another lost decade in the fight against climate change?
The “NDC Synthesis Report of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change” from last February 26th
Outing by Birds of Kashmir, Srinagar, Kashmir, India © Irfan Jeelani
Extraordinary work of ‘ordinary’ people
Covid-19 is more than a tight slap for humanity: it is an opportunity
Fred Cary, a successful entrepreneur
Learn why thousands of entrepreneurs seek out Fred Cary
A professional business creator who has founded more than ten companies in his life
Current World Bank projections show up to 3.6 million people are expected to fall back into poverty this year in Brazil
Inclusion and austerity in Brazil
Why austerity is not working?
The Republic of Serbia, as a militarily neutral country
Emerging Serbian military technologies
An unexplored contemporary dimension in geopolitical consolidation among Greece, Cyprus and Serbia
Green finance is created to ensure a better environmental outcome
The future is green finance
Minimizing pollution, energy consumption and contributing to the circular economy
China, the largest economy measured in Purchasing Power Parity
China: key player in a new world game
The world’s rising powerhouse
Joe Biden foreign policy is essentially unchanged
Biden's aggressive foreign policy
What Joe Biden has done
The Earth is 4.5 billion years old
Fresh perspective on four and a half billion years
A column about nature and technology
Crucial is taking aggressive steps toward building an ecological democracy
Democracy in the 21st century
Failure to build a democratic ecological future will be catastrophic
Times for new kind of criminal cooperation and involvement in the Balkans
NeoUskoks Gladio strike force in the Adriatic Sea
The fight of crime on the high seas
The pandemic has revealed the gross inequality in American culture and society
Inequality: America’s pre-morbidity
We must enter into a time of reflection
The collective Las Tesis interprets the performance "A Rapist in Your Path" together with hundreds of women
Women in the 21st century
The fight for equal rights continues
Waste management is probably the most visible sustainability challenge
Waste management
A big challenge for many countries
Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a Covid-19 world, was the theme for the International women’s Day 2021
Women's struggle and women's strength
Challenge and strive make them more courageous
The Weimar analogy to the contemporary USA is misleading
The Weimar analogy revisited
Historical conflicts tend to recur in ever-changing and generally unexpected variations
Seaside resorts programmed in the Sahara, include Guelmim Plage Blanche
Moroccan Sahara economic integration
The development of "the great Moroccan South"
This year, Greece marks with celebration, as it is 200 years since the Revolution of 1821
The world’s kitchen: Biden’s plates
Greece and its neighbor Turkey
The economic and military strengthening of China has led to new rules for geopolitical game-playing
Geostrategic interests in a troubled world
U.S.A., China and Russia foreign policy
Band-e Amir National Park located in the Bamyan Province of central Afghanistan
Decision time on Afghanistan
Achieving peace is not possible without engaging regional powers
The new fully electric FIAT 500
Saving energy, the Italian way
Italy has always been very sensitive to its use of energy and materials
Thousands turned out for the funeral of 19-year-old Ma Kyal Sin, who was gunned down at a protest on the streets of Mandalay
Myanmar, what now?
We must rise up for Ma Kyal Sin
As the warming increases, it changes the weather, mostly in dangerous ways
The Paris Agreement is not nearly enough
We can prevent irreversible and self-sustaining cruelty
Herodotus had once characterized Egypt as "a gift of the Nile"
Secrets of the Herodotus Basin
Hidden wealth of Egypt
Greenwashing, misrepresentation in terms of environmental quality
Greenwashing undermines sustainable economy
We need to move towards a circular economy
Electricity is still largely produced by fossil fuels causing the global climate crises
Faith in electricity?
Information age karma
The future for Mexico
Is Mexico losing its luster?
It is necessary to continue to design and implement key reforms
The Geneva Summit of 1985 was a Cold War-era meeting. It was held in 1985, between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The two leaders met for the first time to hold talks on international diplomatic relations and the arms race
The time of Gorbachev
His legacy after 30 years of the disintegration of the USSR
Perhaps the American political system is incapable of confronting MAGA nation
The future of American democracy
Past is prologue, the Republican Party
It is not yours till it is cash
The psychology of investing
How to be a cool investor in a hot stock market
The "vaccine nationalism" is a good alibi behind which the world oligarchies act
Health policy and the sovereignty of the people
"No one will be left behind"
The death of Freddie Gray on April 12th, 2015 in Baltimora
2020: the year for seeing clearly
The year that brought perfect sight to the reality of racism in the United States and abroad
Trump supporters storm Capitol Hill steps
Is American democracy failing its people?
A letter to Roberto Savio
Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo, known as "Che's last soldier", for having continued the armed struggle
Osvaldo "Chato" Peredo
Farewell to Che's last soldier
Guinea Equatorial share a common fate with most other African countries
The defense of child rights against the wants of Exxon Mobil
A personal account on the drama in the Gulf of Guinea
Children continue to be enslaved and trafficked in modern times, which is a particular problem in developing countries
A world adrift: challenges and leadership
Covid-19 has revealed the weaknesses in the global economy and our societies
Work to make the world a better place
Towards a better world
How much progress are we making?
Central front of the new Cold War
How US and China stack up on the strategic front in the Asia-Pacific region
Protests against the detention of Alexey Navalny
An appeal to Mr. Vladimir Putin
The world’s population needs relief from inequality
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
Financing the Corona crisis in the EU
The Next Generation EU recovery package and the EU's Multiannual Financial Framework
Capitol Hill riots
Beyond impeachment
The case for a one-term limit for presidents and other constitutional reforms
Richard “Richie” Dolan, currently the head of a boutique firm named Legacy
One man's dream: create one million, millionaires
Richard “Richie” Dolan's desire to bring financial literacy to the masses
The economic cooperation between Poland and Morocco seems to have a most promising future given their multiple assets
Poland and Morocco
New dynamism of flourishing economic partnership
How a nation has turned so crooked, so permissive with such practices and bad habits
Minor corruptions in Venezuela
Lesser crooks, accomplices, and survivors
People in poor countries are managing to survive because of the solidarity and support from some active international humanitarian organizations
How will life be shaped on our planet in the coming years?
The beginning of the new decade and the possible goals of the United Nations Agenda, 2030
The Horn of Africa is the playground for the rising aspirations of several geopolitical actors
Biden and Africa. What now?
This is certainly not the time to leave the region to its own devices
Stimulus packages should help conserve Himalayan landscapes for their contribution to water, food, ecological security of entire South Asia © Ashish Kothari
How ‘green’ are economic stimulus packages?
These packages should steer economic activity into directions that are more ecologically centred
The answer, Mr. President, is for us to build our immune systems, not with drugs or vaccines, but by commonsense approaches to strengthening ourselves
Dear President Biden
Covid and the economy: a holistic approach
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