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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

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

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