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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

Afghanistan, one of the richest troves of minerals in the world

"Graveyard of empires" & genesis of new great game

The geopolitical implications of the fall of Kabul

The chair that stands on the Place des Nations across the UN gate symbolizing humanity’s opposition to the use of indiscriminate weapons

The prohibition of landmines

Landmines belong to the past

The days of empty promises of “net-zero by 2050” are too little

Technologies for circular economies

Re-thinking, re-designing, reducing, reusing, regenerating nature

Climate change also increases the appearance of more violent weather phenomena

Emerging human adaptations

In pursuit of a world of equality, justice and fairness

Global commons or billionaire netocracy?

Prioritizing the needs and rights of the many over the greed and desire of the few

Lies that led to the Afghan war

Lies about how the attack on Afghanistan started

Social justice can be the bearer of sustainability, for people, for societies and for nature

Tools for change

Can social justice save the environment?

Taliban in Kabul

Afghanistan. The moral responsibility

Time for swift action to prevent the worst

Education is one of the great topics that will be discussed in the Constitutional Convention

Education, market and constitution

New educational system in light of the new Chilean Magna Carta

Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, wrongfully sentenced to death

For the release of Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali

A letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Horizon Europe 2021-2027 deserves a recognition

Horizon Europe 2021-2027

Innovative products and services

The NGEU is the basis for financing the damage caused by the Covid-19

The Corona reconstruction fund

Raising of funds, use of funds, repayment

Fires in Greece, Athens besieged by smoke

Ecological disaster in the Mediteranean

Sea people assail again

Women defending the right to housing and life

Pandemic and evictions

Khori Gaon, resistance of women at the forefront of struggles to defend the right to housing and life

Village Mapping at Kunariya, Kachchh, western India © Kunariya Panchayat

Mapping hope and inspiration

Towards a just, sustainable, equitable society

Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, one of the world’s best known political prisoners

Filipino political prisoner refuses to surrender to despotic Duterte

Simplicity in economy can and should be a strong point

Capping capitalism

The concept of moderate profit and a natural economy

Jon Velie

So, lawyers sit and chat like regular people too?

American attorney Jon Velie’s tell-all interview

Has the tiger had its day?

It is not a tiger anymore

Capitalism woes

We have most of the technologies we need. Let's deploy them

Don’t wait for technical fixes

Climate change requires a new ethic along with new technologies

Serbia's defence industry has developed a wide range of programs

Serbian defence industry conquers Greek market

Revival of the old giants and development of new military know-how

US President, Joe Biden, announced to ramp up efforts and sharing up to 80 million vaccine doses to countries in need of vaccines is a step in the right direction

Covid-19 vaccine politics

Politics vs health

Traditional actors that have marked the political history of the country are beginning to lose strength

Chile and the complex presidential challenge

Changes in the Chilean political scene

The White House

Reframing the politics of polarization

I am deeply worried about today’s unhealed political divisions in United States of America

Earth is trapping double the amount of heat now as it did in 2005

The climate crisis

Where our capacity for cognition, collaboration, creativity and chronology collide

The goal is building an ecological civilization

Industrial civilization and its discontents

Building an ecological civilization is the only path likely to allow us to build a sustainable and just future

Morocco has become an essential factor in the search for a solution to the Libyan crisis

Morocco will stand by legitimate Libyan institutions

The contribution in to the Libyan conflict

Coral reefs are vulnerable to environmental changes

Coral reefs are dying. Why?

Coral reefs require a clean water environment to survive

Private prisons are huge businesses primarily populated by black and brown people

Capitalism and the US prison population

A new form of slavery

Children in India's slums

Whither the Washington Consensus?

Supposedly increased social protections may just be new words for old policies.

Gentrifiers only harm low-income families by disrupting the social fabric of neighborhoods

Mehrzya, the flower of resistance to evictions in Ariana

An international call for solidarity

Elections disputed in Peru: official announcement of results is expected

Elections and democracy in Peru

Until today, the National Jury of Elections has not officially proclaimed the winner

International Labour Organization revealed that child labor had increased for the first time in two decades

Child labour and child slavery

An indictment of humanity

Charles David Keeling started the monitoring of the carbon dioxide content of the earth's atmosphere

Climate: we are not doing enough

The Keeling Curve continues to rise steadily

The Communist Party of China has always surmounted difficulties with fortitude

CPC's 100th birthday

The birth of new cold war

The goal of the net-zero emissions transition is more than ever necessary today

The ‘net-zero’ greenwash

Climate crisis and biodiversity loss are becoming impossible to ignore

Sustainable cities

Consciousness in the corporation

Social enterprise is gaining ground

Climate change is a global phenomenon

Let's get serious about climate change

Avoiding the irreversible path of global warming

The Balkans represent a significant potential energy hub

Serbia as a future European energy hub

Energy transit as the strategic opportunity for Serbia

Many countries around the globe have created senior expert pools

Mobilising senior experts

We are wasting an important part of the valuable human capital

The consequences of climate change

Ecological economic growth: reversing climate change

Building an ecological civilization

The world is finally starting to open back up

Summer of support

Fun ways to boost the economy

The Chinese Revolution has emerged as the most momentous event of the last century

The three revolutions of the Chinese Communist Party

The 100th year anniversary of the Communist Party of China

Hurricane Tomas floods streets of Gonaives, Haiti

Once again, Haiti seems to be dying

What will Latin America do about it?

The numbers for 2020 back this up showing an enormous leap in e-commerce

Global pandemic affected the way we shop

Covid-19 has just boosted e-commerce by tenfold

The United States and other countries that were hit hardest by the pandemic are severely falling in GDP

The COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on global GDP and trade

The impact of the pandemic in regard to the decline, the recovery, and the effect on the top ten countries by GDP

Young protesters show solidarity with those who lost an eye due to the brutal police repression in Chile

Chile: from social outburst to electoral surprise

Analysis of the results of the elections of May 15 and 16

The crisis in the Tigray Region

Letter to Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed

We urge immediate action to end the crisis in the Tigray Region

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

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

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

Some think tanks fabricate findings purely to justify USA's war machines

Middle East, a continuous conflict region

Deadly virus from the Middle East

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

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