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LINKED DANGERS TO CIVILIZATION

By John Scales Avery* A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link…

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The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College

By  Corey Robin* – New York Review of Books It has been more than two weeks since the Iowa caucuses, and we still don’t know who won. That should give us pause. We don’t know in part because of a combination of technological failing and human error.

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“The Fire” – Naomi Klein

Book on Climate Change Naomi Klein is perhaps the currrently most outstanding international  climate and environmental justice activist of the world ! Of her,  famous peer Greta Thunberg, has said: “Naomi Klein’s work has always moved and guided me.

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Is Civil Society Arguing Itself out of Political Space?

By Felix Dodds * NEW YORK, Jul 29 2019 (IPS) – As some of you will know I have a new book out Stakeholder Democracy: Represented Democracy in a Time of Fear.  (other contributors to the book were:  Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, Carolina Duque Chopitea, Minu Hemmati, Susanne Salz…

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Lives At Stake, no peace in sight

By Halle Jorn Hanssen*  – Hakim Dario Moi South Sudan During the Liberation Struggle ISBN: 978-82-91385-61-7 © 2017 Skyline publishing Book Review: By Hakim Dario Moi, PhD Book Review Author contact: press@pdm-rss.org Date: 11th February 2019 I read this book and kept going over…

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Learning from Gandhi

Burrowes* Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869: 150 years ago this year There will be many tributes to Gandhi published in 2019 so I would like to add one of my own This reflects not just my belief that he gave the world inspiration, ideas and powerful…

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Journey to Earthland

Paul Raskin* We are bound together on a precarious passage to a land unknown and unnamed. Even a stray dog, as Hannah Arendt once noted, has better odds of surviving when given a name. Likewise, the global future—the place we are going—needs an identity to encourage us to own…