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Between 1526 and 1867, 12.5 million Africans were shipped from Africa and 10.7 million arrived in the Americas
The opposing or “other” views
We are at a choice point of choosing: humanity and morality over hatred and greed
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), pioneered the concept of a simple life, in harmony with nature
The enormous human ecological footprint
The explosive rise of the human population
Although this COP is the best one in history, it has already come too late
2022: a year of grace with the best COP to date
Until COP27 in Egypt to reconcile itself with the science
Guayaquil, the "Pearl of the Pacific"
Guayaquil, a landmark case
The International Tribunal on Evictions restarts the road to housing security for more than 5,000 families
Between $20 and $30 trillion US dollars remains hidden from tax authorities
Inequality
Why international organisations prefer to chase the chimera of poverty
Japanese work culture
The relevance of the value of time
Whoever does not know how to manage time, does not know how to manage anything
China, India, US, ASEAN should forge a common initiative to resolve Myanmar crisis
Big power rivalries. The thugs of Myanmar
What China, US, India could do together
After more than 20 years since the end of the last armed conflict, ethnic and religious intolerance and poor communication remain high
European integration and Western Balkans
Numerous conflicts, uprisings and rebellions over the last century have left enormous consequences
Irma Passoni
An interview with Irma Passoni
A leading light and voice of Brazil’s popular movements during the country’s heavy years of military dictatorship
It is crucial that Washington deepen its own practices of democratic governance at all levels
After the Yankee doodle dandy democracy Summit
The Biden Administration virtual Summit on democracy
Moroccan policy to combat climate change has adopted two key components: the adaptation to climate change and mitigation of the effects of greenhouse gases
Moroccan integrated strategy to face climatic changes
Kingdom's climate is tending more and more towards more aridity
The current humanitarian situation is one of the worst in the world
Global migration and humanitarian action
It's time to address the cause of forced migration, not build more walls
Primitive peoples were first to inhabit the land, and need to be respected as such - Dongria Kondh indigenous people, Odisha (India) © Ashish Kothari
Rescuing words
How they change meaning through history
Public health policy in the U.S. is unclear and seems cluttered by a list of prominent diseases
Looking at public health
The Covid code has been cracked
A street in Warsaw destroyed during the failed 1944 uprising against the Nazi German occupiers
Poland, always a place to remember
A nation struck by history
The role model men unconsciously or consciously follow shapes our kind of economy and politics
Male role models: how the warrior pervades
Could a provider approach instead positively influence our economic and political environment?
Economic success is pointing in the wrong direction
The reward system is just plain wrong
How will our social system work if it rewards extraction, instead of contribution to the common good?
The prices we pay for fossil fuels today are nowhere near their actual costs to society, the economy, and the environment
Hidden numbers are killing the US
Only “deep math” will prevent environmental disaster
Oil and gas are set to continue playing a vital role in meeting the world’s energy needs for decades to come
Uncertain times for oil and gas giants
Angola’s energy policies as the key pillar of energy security
According to numerous scientists, inaction in addressing the adverse impact of climate change could cost the world up to USD 1.7 trillion a year by 2050
Are science and religion compatible?
Religion and climate change
Gender more balanced economies are growing faster
Gender equality in R&I
It is now more important than ever before in history
All our global media have become humanity’s external nervous system
Progress or collective insanity?
Enslaving ourselves to infotech speed and virtual reality
Is an issue of this nature best served by protests in the streets?
Are environmental protests actually helping the environment?
A look at the efficacy of demonstrations for environmental justice
All we need to do is end the ability to pollute for free
The pursuit of an ecological future: is there another way?
Transforming our tax system for economic growth and ecological improvement
Price can be pure psychology
The psychology of a market correction
Investors decide to finance companies, but they unwittingly also finance each other
Plastic bags will soon be eliminated from many African countries
Plastic bag pollution: from science to law
Kenya's government is leading the way to prohibit and eliminate plastic bags
Now the world is confronted with a new kind of nuclear threat
A nuclear catastrophe on the horizon?
Improvised Nuclear Device (IND)
The spread of misinformation is spreading across the land
Misinformation: as American as apple pie
The spread of misinformation is spreading across the land
At COP26 in Glasgow, this vision of the long-term future was not discussed
Let's get money out of politics
Why COP26 failed future generations
Chinese military aircraft and US naval forces face each other in the South China Sea. Where does Europe stand in all of this?
Europe needs a new vision, not a new Cold War
In a changing world, Europe must act according to its own security and economic interests
Protests leading to the Fair Housing Act in 1968
Redlining and its effect on the mortgage process
Real estate discrimination
12,837 are the young Tunisians who have crossed the sea to Italy since the beginning of the year 2021
Migration, failure of public policies
Youth in perdition
A look at the idea of global solidarity
Colonialism and solidarity
What do welfare states have to do with Europe's colonial past?
Philosophers like Plato and Aristotle stated that creative thinking was a gift
Creative thinking and business intelligence
A valuable and indispensable element
Angela Merkel is considered in the collective memory a great stateswoman
Germany, new times
Challenges of the Teutonic country with the departure of Angela Merkel
The environmental impact of products and services
The impact of Social Life Cycle Assessment
Politicians could do much more to impose rules helping economic operators and consumers to act responsibly
Ecologists, activists and scientists are not satisfied with the current situation
Results of COP26 and trust
The financial industry and the climate crisis: transparency is necessary for accountability
Global health is high on the medical, economic and political agenda worldwide especially since the outbreak of covid-19
Global health: a new challenge
A path to advancement in worldwide health
Without a more refined diet of diplomacy, America will continue to throw its bulging military weight around—but with only counter-productive results
War is not inevitable
A lean China confronts an obese America
This appeal is presented with confidence that philosophy will not be allowed to slip from the agenda of the United Nations
Urgently appealing to the United Nations COP26
Philosophical thoughts on whether to COPe or to COP-out
Covid is everywhere
Cracking the Covid code
Media manipulation of the narrative
The poor are not responsible for the workings of the system that holds them in the poverty trap
Wealth inequality in the world
An ethical challenge, source of political instability and economic stagnation
Compared to our apparent potential, we are primitives
Are we ready for another planet?
Neither we nor millions of other species will continue surviving if we don't better understand life on Earth
World leaders Shri Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia at the Bandung Conference in 1955
The revival of the Non-Aligned Movement in Serbia
Fostering the multilateral initiatives to meet the global challenges
Ladakh (India) pastures are crucial for pastoralists but threatened by mega-energy projects © Ashish Kothari
Will the Glasgow Declaration save the world’s forests?
Governments have repeatedly failed in delivering ecological and socio-economic justice
Whenever it comes to lobbying, people think negatively first
Legitimate and ethical lobbying
Lobbying can and should be an important instrument of democracy
Although there is a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there is no equivalent instrument for democracy
For a Universal Declaration of democracy
Draft and formulation
Climate and ecological emergency
The climate crisis and the Questians
Generation Q, the new generation of emerging climate change activists
There is a practical path to mitigate the effects of climate change
Climate change: a practical 10 year plan
The choice is either global transformation or global catastrophe
Mount Kilimanjaro, how much smaller and greyer the glacier has become
When glaciers melt
Time to take responsibility
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, died in September 2021
President Gonzalo
Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reinoso, responsible for the death of more than 40.000 persons in Peru
Hiring managers should not be looking for a clone of their last hire
Dear hiring manager, be careful what you wish for
The many ways hiring managers could inadvertently contribute to the mismatch between job openings and potential hires
It is essential to apply the lessons of the past in time
In the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations and UNESCO
Aa appeal to the peoples of the Earth
Unvaccinated people will lose their jobs
Vaccinate or terminate
Say goodbye to today’s U.S. federal workforce
Art Cedar, of the Aluet and Blackfeet tribes, raises a fist at an Indigenous Peoples Day event in Seattle
Telling United States history
Courage or cowardice
The average temperature on the planet’s surface has already risen by 1.2C compared to the average temperature of pre-industrial times
Call to action to avoid climate disaster
The Synthesis Report and the Paris Agreement
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund continue to argue for sustainable growth
Strategies for sustainability
We know what, but do we know how?
Demonstrations
Democracy and political Islam: an oxymoron
The roots of Tunisia's president's act of strength and the hope of the first woman to head the government in Tunisia
The processes of financing and purchasing health care are handled differently amongst the European nations
Financing and purchasing health care in Europe
The complexities of external versus internal financing
China aspires to be the world's leading power
Is China a threat or an opportunity for Latin America?
China has become a global player and a second world power
Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayyeb
Pope Francis and Grand Imam Ahmed Al-Tayyeb
Two religions, same God, same humanity
Education is the objective of any advanced society
Towards a sustainable knowledge society
Achieving educated and socially responsible citizenry
During World War II, Brazil was the only Latin American country to send troops to fight against Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy
Visiting the War Memorial
Amazon deforestation and the coup temptations of Trump’s boy in Brazil
The Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline is probably the pan-African project of the century
The Morocco-Nigeria gas pipeline
Economic and geopolitical benefits
The issue of Germany debt to Greece is as relevant as ever
Angela’s last dance for Greece
Open negotiations to resolve the serious issue of Germany’s WWII debt to Greece
Our planet is endangered, ecosystems can no longer absorb and store carbon emissions and almost a million species are in danger of extinction
For humanity and our incredible planet
All of us have to do our part to protect sustainability of life
Dylan Suitor is the founder of The Elevation Realty Network
Make time for life while building a real estate empire
Realtor Dylan Suitor commits to a work-life balance to avoid burnout
Agricultural land is very sparse in Ladakh, as seen here at Yangthang © Ashish Kothari
A fully organic Ladakh?
Towards food sovereignty on the roof of the world
What does it take to tackle climate warming in the US?
Whatever it takes
We still have a chance to redesign the system if industries and governments take action on their climate change promises
2021 saw the US and NATO occupation forces withdraw from Afghanistan
Afghanistan: war, culture and democracy
Can democracy be imposed on a country through war and occupation, abstracting from its historical-cultural reality?
How do centralized politico-economic structures impact our standards of living?
Global economy, national politics, local governance
A look at the merits of decentralization vs centralized economic and governmental structures
The climate is changing faster than scientists and computer models predicted
Avoiding a cop-out at COP-26
Time has run out for a polite phaseout of carbon fuels
Campesino, is a metaphor for all the laborers of the world
Campesino: worker of the world
A peasant farmer
Richard Falk
Richard Falk’s passage to “positive public notoriety”
The life of a citizen pilgrim
Skills have become the global currency of the 21st century
Developing 21st-century post-secondary education
Skills and competencies needed at the modern labour market
We have almost run out of time to address climate change, ph. Bill Dahl
The climate crisis. Generation Q
The Questians, the ones who speak truth to power boldly and courageously
Economic growth can be synonymous with ecological improvement
An ecological reformation: the central point
Economic activity must support, reflect and value ecological restoration
The Sèvres Syndrome refers to a popular belief that some outside forces are conspiring to weaken and carve up Turkey
Geopolitical syndrome
The Taliban issue
Senator John McCain, a Senator and a former presidential candidate
Remembering Senator John McCain
Thank you for sitting in coach
US troops evacuated thousands of people from Afghanistan
Afghanistan and the United States: the path forward
Is there a roadmap for stability to return to Afghanistan?
The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy
Racially divided America: white supremacy ideology
Why the fear of teaching true American history?
We need a new economic system
Problems with capitalism
It is driving us towards disaster
Moroccan Jews have lived and continue to live in Morocco with their Muslim brothers
Israel and Morocco to consolidate bilateral relations
Three cooperation agreements related to the fields of politics, culture, youth, sports and air services
The right to development
The right to development. Do we need it?
A political project, a democratic deepening at a global level, a practice of contradiction and distribution
Studies from Harvard University consistently report that about three-quarters of change efforts flop
What we are doing wrong when we manage to change
Corporate transformations are having a miserable success rate
Elections will be held in Chile on November 21st
Chile: the center-left vs. the left
Does the existence of numerous left parties and movements contribute to right-wing government?
Conquering “the last male bastion"
Women in Indian armed forces. She is unique!
An initiative on women’s empowerment
The North American Empire had begun to take on even greater weight in 1979
Collapse of Kabul
Gastrectomy of a distended American empire
2021 Greece wildfires
Call for Mother Earth
An initiative to address the climate emergency in Glasgow. Join us!
America’s exit opens up huge possibilities for the region
America’s exit from Afghanistan
Pakistan can be the biggest beneficiary of this change
India has attempted to become an economic powerhouse in the image of ‘developed’ countries © Vipul Sangoi
India colonises its ‘frontiers’
The quest to become an economic superpower is leading to sub-colonialism
Archaeological evidence shows humans living in Afghanistan some 50,000 years ago
Is Covid the new Afghanistan?
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace”
Renewable energy targets are a key feature of the European Green Deal
The European Green Deal: great ideas for smart planners
Fair, cost-effective and competitive action to achieve climate targets by 2030
Our primary challenge is not only the environmental catastrophe and the exploding inequality
We need a new social contract
Going beyond the pandemic
The American experiment of liberal democratic reconstruction dates back to the US’s conquest of the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century
Nation-building
The march of an illusion from the Philippines to Afghanistan
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