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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

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

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