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Demonstrators carry a giant EU flag during an anti-government rally near the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi

Europe, its war and the world order

A recurring habit that cannot be interrupted

IBN Youssef School, historical landmark, Morocco

Morocco is the link between Africa and the United States

The Moroccan-American relations

Palestinians and Israelis letting each other coexist on their own path

A new Palestine scenario

fiction or promising reality?

One example of global commons is the government of Alaska's decision to create a ‘Permanent Fund’ with 25% of the oil revenues; the dividend is paid to those citizens who apply, who are residents of Alaska and who have no criminal convictions

Ideas to shape the future and a new international economic order

Memorial to Holodomor victims, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukraine is not, and will never be Russia

A look at their past

Loose change that is there to help drive the silver economy

The potential of silver economy

A definition with several success stories

The issues with several countries in the South China Sea all come down to the US and China relationship

The perils of semi-sovereignty

Japan and the Philippines in the grip of geopolitical rivalry

The national flag of Ukraine waves in protest against the war Russian-Ukraine

A turning point in Ukraine

It is not realistic to pretend that Kyiv could end up completely with the Russian occupation

Canadians and Americans and their differing government systems and political culture

Canada vs USA: the political arena

The differences from the most promising democracies in the world

Russian President Vladimir Putin reading letters from his admirers and detractors

Ukraine's elimination or armageddon?

An open letter to President Vladimir Putin with no hammer to pound nor sickle to swing

Mafia boss Salvatore Riina waving goodbye

A conversation with Captain Ultimo

The one who arrested mafia boss Salvatore Riina

An aerial view of a cohousing community

Is cohousing for you?

Creating a community for a new American dream

Eventually, there is a collapse and a major die-off, with the possible extinction of the species

The end of growth

Conversion to a steady-state world system

Aerial view of city buildings near the mountain, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Public management revisited

The governance shift

A wind turbine for energy instead of drilling for oil

How to retire fossil fuels?

Steps we can take to end them

A startup business meeting where all the department heads are involved

Startups to keep an eye in 2023

Four companies that I found at the Web Summit

Sunset at El Tigre, Anzoategui, Venezuela

Shadows in the sunset

The inexorable fall of the Venezuelan regime

Trees growing inside a building with a circular skylight

Ecological economic growth

A sustainable business path

Pakistani people, standing in a line waiting to get some food. These people are facing anxiety and distress

The alarming crisis in Pakistan

A country that has a population of 230 million is now on the verge of default

A group of young entrepreneurs getting ready to pitch their business idea to a few investors

9 ways to create a pitch

How to make investors invest

Walter Lippman notes that members of the public are expected to form opinions regarding public affairs

Middle East and the Lippmann Gap

The East Mediterranean patient

Former health secretary Matt Hancock appeared on the British reality TV show "I'm a celebrity...get me out of here"

The relationship between politicians and reality tv

Should public servants and entertainment ever mix?

Ukrainian refugee Nagir holds her granddaughter at a refugee center, Moldova. UNFPA Moldova, Eduard Bîzgu, 4 March 2022

The heroic women of Ukraine

War in Ukraine is a crisis for women and girls

$A fraction of the strength of the U.S. military arsenal$

The U.S. military-industrial complex

A mechanism wielding the power to silence the opposition

A man praying near the rubble after surviving the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Kahramanmaras, Turkey

Erdoğan's response to the earthquake in Turkey

The president's policy might also soon collapse

Social inequality bird's eye, Khayelitsha close to Cape Town, South Africa

Housing chronicles in South Africa

Economic disparities: why aren't the government's interventions in housing enough?

People of all ages receive primary health care at local facilities

Financing health in Costa Rica

Health is an undeniable human right for everyone

Universalism is totally compatible with diversity, it is even its condition

Emancipation, solidarity and universalism

Social justice in the hands of the far-right can protect but not make free

Two business executives high-five in support of one another

Six smarter ways to find support

Undertaking corporate projects the right way

The Preamble of the UN Charter

The war in Ukraine and our obligation to seek peace

A call to find peaceful solutions

An angry Vladimir Putin communicating his thoughts on Russian national television

Russian revanche and a Eurasian axis:

“Red Squares” Moscow

The massive voice of public opinion takes on many shapes and sizes

Politicians vs public opinion

Understanding the influence the two parties have on each other

Ukrainian and Russian delegates sitting at a table negotiating a possible peacetalk

Can we expect peace talks to begin?

Or is there a new world war on the horizon?

Author (with spectacles) at Narmada Sangharsh Yatra (Struggle Journey), 1990 @ Shailendra Yashwant

It did not stop the dam, but is it a failure?

The many faces of India’s Narmada movement

Two women working in their flower shop as part of achieving their soul-aligned business

Creating a soul-aligned business

Reaching the fun and fulfillment plateau

A woman holds a flag of the SDG of the UN

World Bank, IMF, and the UN sustainable development goals

How our world system ensures SDG failure

Re-thinking global warming

Water & soil, nature leads the way again

Recycling is an effective and easy way to change our climate behavior

What we can do as adults to change our climate behavior

Starting with the community

With what ease people's minds are taken over by fanaticism, becoming unreachable by common-sense arguments, rationality and science

Science, faith and ethics

A political mess

Offshore wind power is rapidly becoming more affordable than fossil fuels, thanks to innovation in the design of wind turbines and their infrastructure, installation and maintenance

Fighting the headwinds against wind energy

The cons of wind energy disputed

Diamonds ring: what money can buy

The feasibility of wealth

Wealth is not the creator but the created and should not be the one in control of our actions

President Putin waving farewell to Europe

Farewell to Europe?

The war between Russia and Ukraine is a much wider war

Petra, Jordan is one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites and is known as the rose-red city for the vibrant color of its sandstone

Cultural diplomacy in the Middle East

A historical outlook

A CEO from a startup trying to make sense of all the market research data

What is a market research?

The methods and tools to achieve success in understanding your market

Asian and North American super-grid interconnection can represent the capstone of global renewable energy development

US and China cooperation

In building and linking super-grids

People walking along the beach as a navy vessel patrols the Mediterranean waters off Rosh Hanikra, known in Lebanon as Ras al-Naqura, on the Israeli side of the border between the two countries, on October 7, 2022

Israel and Lebanon deal

It could usher in additional agreements

Education in South Africa, multicultural and multilingualism

South Africa: polyglotism in the educational system

The apartheid system caused an unequal and dysfunctional educational system, on which the democratic South Africa changes have been slow

Women's "Me Too" movement in Italy

The Italian right and feminism

Why Meloni’s victory is not a real victory

Greece and Ukraine have threats that are similar in nature

Greece and Ukraine share similar threats

The nuclear missile issue

Former Health Secretary Matt Hancock was suspended by his political party over his role in a reality TV show

The black sheep of the jungle

How UK politician Matt Hancock transformed infidelity and Covid lockdown breaches into a £400,000 Reality TV deal

UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher graciously accepting her party's victory in 1979

How Margaret Thatcher was the original Spice Girl

The Iron Lady's "Girl Power"

Earth has become a global force and all countries should connect

(Inter)dependency

How being dependent on one another is the best recipe for peace

A group of young interns on their break discussing the goings on at the office

Why is internship an added value for your future career

Building up your professional profile

Knowledge generation and dissemination through economic networking

Knowledge economy network (KEN)

Introducing sustainable network of networks (SNN)

Melilla la Vieja, Morocco

Morocco strengthens its action within the African Union

Morocco's action within the AU over the past five years has been guided by a reference framework set by HM King Mohammed VI

Catholics in a church in England praying for peace in Ukraine

A plea for peace between Russia and Ukraine

The ongoing conflict has attracted the world's attention

Jacinda Arden Prime Minister of New Zealand being applauded

Women in global politics

An increase in representation

An earth in need of life support due to its failing biological system

Biological systems coming undone

Educational training activities for a new approach to education

The explosion of a nuclear weapon

US plans to use nuclear weapons against Russia

Pending armageddon?

A protest sign of the American dream, in front of the American flag

From greed to generosity

A solution to the world’s woes?

An image of an anonymous capitalist getting ready to conduct financial transactions

Climate change and a smart Capitalist

Interview with an anonymous CIO

Chapada Diamantina National Park in the state of Bahia, Brazil is one of the country's richest bioregions

Inclusive and sustainable development

How Brazil can finance it

Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and others attend the COP27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt November 7, 2022. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Blah, Blah, Blah

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman meets Xi Jinping in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 8, 2022

Chinese President Xi Jinping's trip to Saudi Arabia

A milestone in cementing political ties and paving the way for China and the Middle East

A young Ukrainian girl with a crown of flowers resting on her head carrying the Ukrainian flag as a hope for peace

What are the chances for peace in Ukraine?

Outlining the possible outcomes from the probable scenarios

A sunrise in the Maldives

The solar transition accelerates

Overcoming key obstacles

The blue of the "Buen Vivir" of Chile

Chile: The global mobilisation for "Buen Vivir"

Our future is public: peace and equality start again from Santiago de Chile

Homeless men sleeping on the streets, in downtown Los Angeles, California, the state with the largest homeless population in America. Frederic J. Brown / AFP - Getty Images

Claiming true exceptionality

Incomprehensible, inconceivable and unimaginable issues of the United States

Scottish protestors calling out to be independent from the United Kingdom

Scotland: uncertainty ahead

What does the future look like for the nation?

Martin Luther King Jr. and his followers marched peacefully in a protest in Washington D.C., USA

The concept of non-violence

Its connection to power and politics

A South African in the middle of the road raising a gun to the sky crying out for justice

Is COVID-19 a way for conflict to decrease?

Not in most African states, specifically South Africa

Forests on Great Nicobar, slated to be cut down for an infrastructure project @ Pankaj Sekhsaria

India as G20 president

Fit for this purpose?

Full rainbow brings light and symbolizes hope in post-pandemic times

From disruption to transition

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

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

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