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Arms industry: the world spent 2.113 trillion US dollars on armaments in 2021

Selling weapons, selling death

A vast river of money

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, with US President Joe Biden

The contraction of the West

With more non-aligned countries emerging, what does the future hold?

Covid-19 vaccines: we must apply criteria of effective solidarity when distributing surpluses of vaccines

Covid-19 vaccines for Costa Rica

Effective solidarity: protecting our citizens and visitors through development and diplomacy

Gone: the Forum, with its greatly eroded international council, is as dead as a doornail

Future of the World Social Forum

Living corpses of ‘civil society’: can they be resurrected?

Tunisia: It is up to women and men of this country to rebuild the bridges that capitalism, patriarchy and corruption have destroyed

Authentic daily challenges with Hend Ben Haj Ali

Tunisia will rise from its ashes because it has never been subjugated over the centuries

The stresses of coping with the uncertainties and ambiguities of this time are palpable and life threatening

Manage in times of uncertainty and ambiguity

Stopping and thinking about what's of value

The Duchy of Bardo (Mondovì): the Duke, Piercarlo Bormida

Duke Piercarlo Bormida speaks

The Duchy of Bardo: land of dreams and art

Russia-Ukraine war: will the present conflict remains “limited” to Ukraine?

Karl Marx and NATO

Now they have their long-awaited war against Russia: what next?

Primary headquarters of the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland

The Global South in the WTO

Time to move from the defensive to the offensive

Goods and services, in this new technological age, are being moved by the platforms of corporate giants

Platform economics

Corporate power and economic democracy in a largely unregulated market

The right to bear arms and its constitutional standing

The American Conundrum

Democracy in decline

Ukraine grain farming: global grain supply is heavily impacted by the war

Global consequences of war in Ukraine

We are on the verge of an ecological and food crisis, and the clock is ticking

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Germany stops appeasing Russia

What a difference a war makes

The war in Ukraine has caused food prices to increase drastically in every part of the world

The threat of a large-scale famine

Disasters threaten human civilization

A handshake deal to promote equality in the workplace

What to do when you feel discriminated against at work?

A guide to combat the unfairness

Peace: reflections on how to achieve peace are missing from official European statements

For peace in Ukraine

Europe must finally find its own voice

Pakistan is facing an economic crisis because of massive corruption, bad planning and political instability

Pakistan’s governance crisis

With many internal challenges to overcome, what is their focus?

Yasmin Corrales: women in Venezuela ratify commitment against inequality and injustice

Yasmin Corrales

Southern women insurgents: with real daily challenges

War: the way forward should not be about winners and losers, but sustainable and lasting peace

Lessons from the war in Ukraine

Defining a new agenda for internationalism

The brittle fabric of the EU

Regional cohesion in the EU

Part of sustainable development

The Vitruvian Man in today's world

The 'new man' limitation

Funeral pace towards a world of dignity

Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Why the son of a hated dictator won the Philippine elections

The fallout from the results

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Washington and Kyiv versus Moscow

Toward a war of attrition? Or major power war?

Competition is not an end in itself, but an instrument in different areas

Competition in healthcare

Supporting new ideas, new products and new procedures

Ukrainian citizens leave by train to safer areas

Voices from the Ukrainian heartland

Looking in horrified: an interview with Valentin M. Yakushik

Children living in poverty have only hazardous throw-aways to play with © Ashish Kothari

Sustainability without equality is impossible

The world’s rich are hideously unsustainable

Money game: economists have brought to our attention the huge power of the asset management industry, who are key deciders on where the money goes

The corporate blind money-making

Despite the inspiring discourse and ESG claims, the corporate world is not up to its responsibilities

Putin will not be the last deranged despot to threaten us with proliferating nuclear arsenals

Saving life after Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has taken our humanity hostage with oil and nuclear arms

Information war: the aim is to prolong the war for as long as it serves the interests of those who promote it

Inconvenient complexity

Information warfare on European soil

The LAGs contribute to strengthening the modern democratic environment

The contribution of local action groups

People are not fully aware of their scope and impact

The tainted thumb of AMLO

Mexico's miasma

Exploring the issues beyond the source of the scent

Southern feminists, smiling, determined, in search of justice, equal opportunities and the implementation of female leadership

Ayda Ben Chaabane

Southern women insurgents: with real daily challenges

Grand Central Terminal, New York

Secret train stories

Α parallel plot?

Today, the development of all-destroying thermonuclear weapons has put war completely beyond the bounds of sanity and elementary humanity

Can humans really claim to be wise?

The methodology of white superiority

Collective narcissism

Its impact on society

Without peace in Ukraine, humankind around the world will suffer

Considerations against the tide

Ramifications of the Ukraine conflict and the suicide of reason

In the alleviation of poverty, poor people only acquire the right to survive

Fight against inequalities

Poverty, inequality and a shift towards a new eco-social contract

The haunting sight of aggression

What to do if you testify a microaggression at work?

Solutions to combat the hostility

More countries than ever in the past have understood that knowledge and innovation are the key factors of economic, technological, and general progress of a society

Comparing countries

Ranking knowledge society-economy status

The Russia-Ukraine divorce involved disputes over the division of Soviet assets

In the aftermath of the Soviet collapse

How the uncivilized Russia-Ukraine divorce exploded into full scale warfare

Economists would propose that resources are best invested where the highest health outcomes are achieved per dollar spent

Healthcare and sustainable development

Mobilizing resources to meet fiscal sustainability of health systems

On Friday, March 18 for the first time, Madrid supports the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco for the Moroccan Sahara in 2007

Morocco Spain new relation phase

Spain new position about Moroccan Sahara

Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) brought peace to Europe until 1914

Europe: the return to the periphery of the world

The beginning of the end of eurocentrism

Poverty: there is plenty of economic data, but the emotional cost of being stuck in the poverty trap has received less attention

The emotional cost of inequality

A vicious circle generating social polarization, violence and more corporate-dominated politics

Warriors and politicians have weaponized information for centuries

Weaponizing information

Information warfare is not confined to wars

Putin’s destructiveness might just energize humanity to save itself

Putin’s instruction, destruction and disruption

The Russian dictator’s aggression against Ukraine has changed the world

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and President Xi Jinping

China’s entry into the Muslim world

Promoting stability and economic development through strategic political bonds

Big Pharma is a term for the world’s largest publicly traded pharmaceutical companies

The case of Big Pharma

Socially responsible use of knowledge

Our global future: we hope that futurists can shift to visions of alternative, viable, often overlooked possibilities

Economists learning from futurists

How classifications can clarify or obscure facts and truth

The murdering menace of Moscow, his military might

It is reverberating across our globe

Legal systems: why do international and national laws make these agreements so difficult to honour?

Why is it so hard to get climate change right?

Environmental law, philosophy, COP26 and a tragedy of commons

Green hydrogen can be combined with other forms of energy

Putin’s war and global energy

Security and ecological imperatives converge

In Colombia, the constitutional law in favor of decriminalizing abortion up to the 24th week of gestation was approved

Colombia decriminalizes abortion

The importance of grass-roots feminist movements

Smog in Shanghai

The urgent need for climate action

Climate disaster seems a distant threat

The Florida Republican-dominated State Legislature most recently passed a bill applied to K-12 public schools

The perpetuation of white supremacy

A bill that will limit discussions teachers and businesses can have about race

Anyone who tries to dissect these movements easily sees where the problems lie and why there can be no global breakthrough

The demise of the alter-globalist movement

Why the World Social Forum and other movements are failing to shape another world

Archangel Saint Michael: the patron saint of Kiev, his statue in Independence Square watches over the city

Ukraine: we need peace now

Soon it could be too late

It is difficult to spark up and to set hands in the task

Using innovative thinking to make things happen

One of the hardest quests that most individuals can face

Healthcare data and statistics inform us about health status, the quality of healthcare and social characteristics

Healthcare's economic data

How can we use a range of healthcare data to make better decisions?

War over Ukraine

Ukraine and Russian revanche

An unjust peace is better than the pretense of a “just” major power war

The post-Covid context requires Morocco to make a change

Focus on the new Investment Charter

Investment in Morocco is changing course

Marco Rizzo, general secretary of Partito Comunista

Interview with Marco Rizzo

A future for Italy

'Remember your humanity, and forget the rest' are words lost in scholasticism

Scholasticism is alive and well: living with social dementia

Survival is a race between global civic education and global destruction

Nature has its own agency and rights, and must be respected for humanity to re-establish ecological harmony © Ashish Kothari

The flower of transformation

Alternatives for justice, sustainability and equity

Eric Lundgren: Reduce, re-use, recycle

Eric Lundgren: how to prevent waste and make money

When consumers don’t reduce consumption

Women marching at the Women's Strike for Equality, 1970

An unattractive woman

Speaking of women’s rights

Shared solutions: the time is ripe to combine climate transition with increased unionization

Can US labor unions help climate transition?

Where labour laws, training and climate improvement agendas intersect

War in Ukraine: the world has just drifted into a new and serious phase that could lead to an even greater crisis

Ukraine: complexity and war

Is it still possible to think?

It has been 30 years since world leaders agreed to do something about global warming

Cause more "good trouble"

If world leaders had felt enough pressure, they would have prevented the climate crisis long ago

Dirty Money on Netflix shows how so many scams are built by companies which are household names

A time of diluted responsibility

The balance between personal interest and common good is deeply flawed

Kazakhstan held 0.6% of the global gas reserves

Kazakhstan energy strategy

An unrecognized power in an uncertain geopolitical environment

Santiago, the capital of Chile

Chile: between South America and Latin America

Foreign policy analysis

Europe has to intensify its integration process

European integration of Western Balkans

If this is not going to happen, Europe will become in 10-15 years a third-ranking, ex-global player

Governments inability or unwillingness to implement solutions to the climate crisis is deeply entrenched, and seemingly intractable

The sad state of the accelerating climate crisis

In the UK and Europe a number of estate and landowners are converting to rewilding

The promise of rewilding

Natural capital and a nature-based economy

President Iván Duque: we have serious concerns about bringing forth the truth

Open letter to President Iván Duque

Request for a hearing, from the Advisory Council to the Truth Commission, Bogotá, Colombia

Russia has attacked Ukraine, in a clear violation of the UN Charter

Russia's attack on Ukraine

Are we facing a new undesirable European security architecture to emerge?

There is anxiety and sense of fear of white loss of control and domination of America

The fear returns

By 2050, minorities would make up more than 50 percent of the American population

In the United States, both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party owe their allegiance, not to the people, not to the voters, but to large corporate donors

Corporations versus democracy

As citizens we must prevent our politicians from pursuing this insane brinksmanship

Environmental education is very important in achieving sustainable development

Green education in Costa Rica

Diverse approaches paving the way for ecological and economic sustainability

Variants of other viruses are emerging

The NeoCoV virus

The next Coronavirus pandemic may be just one mutation away

Vulnerable members of society in India: we are divided but no one can escape the pandemic if everyone does not escape the pandemic

Uniting society post-pandemic?

Reflections on society’s illness and the lack of a political project

Social Forum of Resistances 2022: the strength of women is more than ever essential

Is the utopia of another world possible?

Social Forum of Resistances 2022

Failure is common in business

How to address the failure of a project?

The topic of failure is not included in the curriculum of business schools

Ukrainian troops assemble on the border

Europe: weapons, war and peace

History reminds us that peace is short-lived

The World Economic Forum 2022 was held via the WEF website and social media channels between 17 and 21 January 2022

World Economic Forum 2022

The world cannot waste even another half-year without making progress

The current crisis in Ukraine is the next step in Vladimir Putin's attempt to make Russia great again

The NATO-Russia-Ukraine train wreck

Options for peace

Collective Security Treaty Organization forces were deployed to Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan and the importance of stability in Central Asia

Conflict in January 2022 highlights the geostrategic relevance of this region

Deep Ocean Mission and Blue Revolution will both threaten India's marine biodiversity and livelihoods of small fisherfolk © Ashish Kothari

Highways to unsustainability

India’s 2022-23 budget gives environment and climate token attention

Public health in Bhutan is related to their “Gross National Happiness Index”

Re-visioning public health

Involving and including happiness and a sense of well-being

Financial inequality keeps millions of people below the poverty line

Helpless politics

The world does not suffer a lack of resources, but of political and social organization

Numerous countries are already in the process of adding third and fourth boosters

Covid-19 booster vaccines

The worst is behind us?

Local action groups relying on grassroots initiatives are certainly a valuable instrument of democracy

Sustainability of grassroots initiatives

A valuable instrument of democracy

Education is classified as consumption, even though it is the most important investment all societies make in the health and competence of their future citizens

Market opportunities in metaphysical reconstruction

Achieving circular economies with innovative thinking and reshaping of whole sectors

Nobody can escape the challenges that inhabit the beginning of 2022

2022 and you: the Alpha Bet

The challenges we currently face along with those that shall emerge

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