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A team interpreting the data with the intention of being productive and innovative
Understanding the innovation phenomenon
What are the factors, processes, and responsibilities?
Michael Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit
Michael Sandel and the meritocratic ideology
The political psychology of the white working class
President George W. Bush's use of the words "axis of evil" set the tone for his administration
Politics and the power of words
The influence of language in political settings
Let's nurture our environment. Environmental sustainability focuses on the ecology or environment that offers the resources
Economic sustainability after the Covid-19 pandemic
Sustainability is the aptitude of one community to become capable of meeting basic needs
Morocco palm trees in the fog, desert groves at Zagora
Morocco develops dates palm sector
Developing a renewable project
Back Row: Fourteen graduates. Front Row: Officers of the ECPD and at the center Professor Ljiljana Markovic ECPD Academic Director, Professor Dr. Jeffrey Levett and Outreach Professor Dato' Dr. Halo-N
Philosophy and Al Quran
Two cultural leaps one for Eurasia at the ceremony of Eurasian Bridges for Peace
Pakistan covered in floods
Pakistans flood catastrophes
5.7 million Pakistani flood survivors will confront a serious food emergency
A possibility for a better world is in the palm of our hand
Consumer and investor rights for a better world
Sustainability in a growing market
HR team evaluating the skills of Millenials prior to interviews
Millennials and employee recognition
How to assist millennials and the upcoming generation
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian of France, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo of the United States, Minister of State for the Commonwealth and the United Nations of the United Kingdom Lord Tariq Ahmad, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres; Foreign Ministers of the permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council
India’s geopolitical role today
Ending the UN veto and promoting human survival
Street art in Bogota, Columbia, South America. Talking from the heart
Power talk
A way to a world of peace, prosperity, love, wellness & sustainability
Brazilians gather during the voting of the presidential elections
Inclusive development for Brazil
Necessary improvements needed for the people
The sun offers a seven-billion-year supply of pollution-free energy
New rules for the post-carbon world
Nature pushing back
Coal gasification is a goldmine energy resource
Underground coal gasification
Untapped potentials of trapped black gold
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members celebrating in the streets of India
The Saffron Cult
Politics and Hinduism
Babcock Ranch, in southern Florida, USA, is a sustainable community
Ecological value
How global markets and the ecosphere can survive and thrive
The might of the U.S. military marching across the world to defend democracy
The militarism of the United States
The U.S. government aims at global hegemony through military force
The high-rise buildings of Dongcheng Qu, Beijing, China
The challenge of urbanization
How can we improve the quality of urban life?
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan is leading an anti-government long march toward Islamabad
The Haqeeqi Azadi long march
Pakistan in turmoil
Mount Rushmore, Black Hills region of South Dakota, USA features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln
“Unapologetic” American exceptionalism
What does it mean?
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is the fifth democratically elected president of South Africa, as well as president of the African National Congress since 2017
Politicians' affair with the media
The crisis in select African states, from South Africa's perspective
Filling out a ballot will contribute to the poll results even if the answers aren't accurate
Beware the polls
Watch for whom to trust
Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan
Stormy weather is ahead in the Pacific
The future of Taiwan and China
President Donald Trump leaves after speaking during a Make America Great Again rally at Fayetteville Regional Airport
How the MAGA movement became the new punk rock
Donald Trump the voice for the anti-establishment
A man smiling with his baby
The population debate
One child less?
El Mehdi El Khachia is a multi-task person
The El Mehdi El Khachia multi-career personality story
What do you do for a living? What’s your story?
We must take the future of the world in our hands
The importance of imagining the future
Find solutions that are conducive to us all
Washing dirty money
Corruption
How corruption negatively affects the economic growth of a country
The world is on fire nearing an apocalyptic end
The world’s apocalyptic blind spots
Blinkered earthlings before the gates of armagaddon
Individuals who prioritize money over people and the planet may have material wealth but their wealth often owns them and they may actually be spiritually impoverished and unhealthy
Reinventing capitalism
Business serving the common good
Inflation is just one cause of the financial chaos of the world
Capitalism: borrowed legitimacy
Financial corporate greed has changed the world
The primary elections are about the democrats (blue) vs. republicans (red)
Will political pandemonium follow today’s U.S.?
What will the election primary results be in America
The green spaces of Portland, Oregon
Can climate change embellish the American dream?
Americans are dreamers
Currencies from all over the world, but does money hold the same value everywhere?
What is money?
Originally in place as an exchange for good and services, let's unpack what else money means to us
The EU has to weather the storm it's currently facing
The rise or fall of the European continent
Does the EU have answers for the future?
Climate change causes floods in many Asian countries
The convergence of disparate events
How they affect our future
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Madrid, Spain, to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
The permanent shame of gender-based violence
Another global pandemic
People who were involved in passing COP26 the climate change pact
COP26, one year on: performative or productive?
The Glasgow climate change pact
Mahsa Amini's death on the 16th of September 2022, has sparked protests in Iran and worldwide in support of Iranian women
Iranian turmoil
Internal and external factors analyzed
A power plant in Europe that's running on fumes
The East Mediterranean gas basin
Europe needs energy solutions now
Demonstrators march against the wearing of face masks in downtown Sanford, Florida, where locals, like their pioneer forebears, have been resisting government orders © Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel/AP
The danger of excessive “individual rights”
Is it individual freedom or self-serving behavior?
Police in South Africa firing rubber bullets in an attempt to control the crowd as unrest escalates
South African security uncertainty amidst COVID-19?
Protests impacting society and the economy
The Earth is our most precious resource
Leave no one behind: the red carpet back to the future!
A just transition?
British Prime Minister Theresa May reacts during a meeting at 10 Downing Street in London
The failures of Theresa May
Why the UK’s second female Prime Minister was a disappointment
Image of The White House with clouds suggests that a fall of the established order is imminent
Rise, decline, and fall of the Liberal Order
John Ikenberry’s 'A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order'
Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler are the fascist leaders of their time
Two essential readings on fascism and civil war
A detailed look at Barbara Walter and Paul Mason's latest works
Russia's President Vladimir Putin posing for a photo-op with the Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong-Un
Toward an alternative transatlantic strategy
The “new” major power rivalries
Meeting of the council heads of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member states in September 2022
Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit
The politics analyzed
The business gesture of shaking hands is a universal sign of trusting the hired staff
The future of staffing
The unknown succession path
Freedom: the concept of a ‘free nation’ really meant a lawless freedom
Human freedom, free nations and the Earth Constitution
Why the concept of a 'free nation' is a contradiction in terms
Open your mind to peace
Minding the mind
Meta-positions for creating peace
The long-standing debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, two opposing political ideologies
The political dilemma
A polarising paradigm
Social media sites are overwhelming people with advertising
The high cost of advertising
We are paying them to manipulate us
The symbol of peace displayed in the traditional colors of Ukraine
In Ukraine, the aim must be winning peace and not the war
In search of securing a positive roadmap
Protestors in Washington state, USA, camp out on train tracks that service the oil refineries
Gordian knots, Faustian bargains, and oil
How the world is addicted to fossil fuels
An elderly couple having a discussion about the challenges they're facing in this stage of their life
Aging society challenges
The issues facing the elderly citizens
The river Indus navigating through the Kashmiri mountains
Kashmir
The call for freedom
Side-by-side comparison of the impact on the planet Earth
Ecological civilization
Why it is necessary and how we can create it
Turkish representative on the left and the EU counterpart on the right sit with fists closed to begin the discussion
Europe means principles
The Turkish patient
Image of The White House in The United States divided in blue for Democrat and red for Republican
The unspoken truth of the upcoming U.S. elections
Democractic and ideological values at stake
South Africans lining up waiting to be cleared of Covid-19 as they attempt to enter the governmental building
South Africa unending crisis?
Lockdown relations with socio-economic challenges
Humanity working together for the universe
The Universal State of the Earth (USE)
Understanding the necessity of USE, the principles and ideas
Protesters march for the basic income initiative
How basic is Basic Income?
On the semantic fog eroding an already bad idea
Russian President Vladimir Putin smiling even though he is at war with Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s war
How is that special military operation going for the Russian President?
At the click of a button, users can access the e-commerce portal and shop with ease
The immediate future of e-commerce
A virtual interpretation of live shopping
A tree in the middle of nowhere is seen from two perspectives, one is the sunny denial, and the other is the gloomy reality of climate change
Denial of climate change
The threat is real
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (left) having a laugh with former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev: the final leader of the Soviet Union
Naïve idealist, epic bungler, or tragic hero
The United Nations General Assembly in the middle of a vote regarding the world
A message to the UN General Assembly
From the World Philosophical Forum
The evolution of the cosmos has brought change to humanity
Our spiritual ascent to the Earth Constitution
The necessity for united humanity and an Earth Federation
The beautiful and mountainous landscape of Hawraman Uramanat in Kurdistan which is designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO (Photo by Firat News Agency)
The flower of transformation blooms in Kurdistan
Alternatives for justice and sustainability in a war-torn area
Citizen stakeholders protesting the misguided use of power politics from their organisation
Power politics and stakeholder management
The effects on the organisational DNA
The Earth Constitution is fully democratic
Moral foundations of the Earth Constitution
Beyond nihilism toward democratic dialogue and debate
Two diplomats shaking hands in the spirit of global and dynamic diplomacy for the sake of sustainable peace
The art of Dynamic Diplomacy
A new spin on an old tradition
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gives a speech to union workers at Praça Charles Muller, São Paulo, on International Workers' day, May 1, 2022. Luisa Dörr for TIME
Bringing Brazil back on track
Brazil has been oscillating between progressive and regressive regimes; it is time for structural change
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (1931-2022) was a Russian and Soviet politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev, the last statesmen
Bidding a farewell to the last leader of the USSR
Save our planet one plant at a time, planting trees together
Why ethics matter
The importance of moving from an industrial to an ecological world
A man standing in a mountainous region wondering how to create a better world
What does it take to create a better world?
It may be easier than you think
Protestors of the war and supporters of Ukraine outside the White House
Ramifications of Russia-Ukraine war within America
Understanding the political actions of the Biden Administration
The US Supreme Court is in the background and suffering backlash from its recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade: perpetuation of white supremacy ideology
How does the anti-abortion movement fit into the white supremacy ideology?
Tunisian women in a demonstration to maintain the CSP: constituted by a series of progressive laws promulgated on August 13, 1956, it aims to establish equality between men and women in many areas
Leila Derouiche Rafrafi, the Soul of Henchir D’Heb
She is the fruit of the Tunisian Personal Status Code and the resulting laws in favor of gender equality
There's thought that the IGB pipeline could solve the energy crisis plaguing Europe
Will the IGB pipeline solve the European energy crisis?
New alliances on the European energy horizon
The value of money is only visible if there's growth in a stable global economy as represented by these coins and their sprouting green plant equivalent
Where does value come from?
Mariana Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Migrants on the streets of Rabat (Morocco) compete with locals for casual labour jobs
The new Moroccan migration policy
Based on a humanistic, coherent, and global approach
The masses on a mission
The currency of power
On the quest to feminism, we lost our femininity
Hollister Fire in Santa Barbara County: wildfires and heatwaves are becoming more common
Our planet is burning
Human survival is on the line: how to literally save our world
There's no culture of peace more established and practiced than those of the Buddhist monks
Cultivating a culture of peace
Ready to flourish
Francis X. Suarez, the Republican Miami Mayor, has overseen the Miami Forever Bond to combat rising sea levels and support affordable housing
Republicans are re-thinking their climate policy
10 reasons why politicians are reconsidering their stance
Money drains from local economies as a consequence of lack of regulations in the virtual world
Digital economy: where is the money going?
Funds are being drained out of local economies to huge global financial corporations
Johnny Harris' YouTube video 'Putin will lose, here's why'
Johnny Harris: Putin will lose
Russia-Ukraine information warfare and social media
Will there be youthful eyes to step in and prevent the destruction of the climate from occurring?
In America, another step back on climate action
The course of inaction is threatening the globe
Deforestation and fires in the Amazon Rainforest are devastating not only indigenous people and their culture, but also destroying biomes and contributing to worldwide climate change
The future of native people is our future
Indigenous Brazilians and the Amazon Rainforest: why should you care?
The world is in our hands which makes us responsible for it and all that are a part of it
Reflections on the fate of the world
Humanity on the brink of vanishing
The U.S. Constitution: if we could start with a new constitution to get things right, what would that mean?
A constitutional foundation for an ecological civilization
The time has come for new a political and legal foundation that supports our environment
Mula Mutha river, Pune - most of India's rivers are badly polluted © Ashish Kothari
At 75, is India behaving like a responsible elder?
Its ecological record does not indicate it is…
Guns and children: severe penalties should be imposed on parents whose children have access to firearms
Guns are taking over the U.S.
The consequences of gun violence in America
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