Story by Ed Yong, Staff writer at The Atlantic A virus has brought the most powerful country in the world to its knees. How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled… Continue Reading
“GLOBAL SURVEY FINDS MOST PREFER EXPANDING GDP WITH HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA” The 2020 GlobeScan-Ethical Markets “Beyond GDP” survey repeats questions asked in 2007, 2009, and 2013 polls in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Kenya, Russia, the… Continue Reading
FROM AN OPEN SPACE TO A SPACE FOR ACTION Is the World Social Forum, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2021, just an open space or can it (should it) also be a space for action? This question has been discussed… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 28 2020 (IPS) – With uneven progress in containing contagion, worsened by the breakdown in multilateral cooperation due to mounting US-China tensions, recovery from the Covid-19 recessions… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization The death of John Lewis is a reminder that power concedes nothing… Continue Reading
By William S. Becker* As we approach the 100-day mark until the presidential election, there is a lot of talk about voter suppression. For those who are unsure what voter suppression means, here is a working definition: It’s what a… Continue Reading
Paolo Lembo, Khalid Malik, Arsenio Rodriguez – WE THE PEOPLES Recently, at one of his daily addresses on Covid-19, the New York Governor Mario Cuomo posited that ‘government is essential to humanity’. Arguably, one can claim, so is global cooperation,… Continue Reading
By Simon Dikau, Nick Robins, Ulrich Volz – London School of Economics Ethical Markets highly recommends this report “TOOLBOX for Sustainable Crisis Response Measures for Central banks and Supervisors”, updating on all the steps the world’s central bankers and prudential… Continue Reading
By Gita Gopinath WASHINGTON DC, Jun 17 2020 (IPS) – The Great Lockdown is expected to play out in three phases, first as countries enter the lockdown, then as they exit, and finally as they escape the lockdown when there… Continue Reading
The Berrett-Koehler Team (1) “Ethical Markets (2) fully supports Jerroll Sanders in her tireless advocacy for justice, democratic and economic reforms in the USA to include our African-American communities. We are honored to have Jerroll Sanders, brilliant independent IT specialist and community… Continue Reading
By Ben Smith* – The New York Times Staff members’ demands helped end the tenure of James Bennet as Opinion editor of The New York Times. And they are generating tension at The Washington Post. Part of the story starts… Continue Reading
By Sir Richard Jolly* Covid-19 hit the world at the start of 2020, beginning in Wuhan, China, before spreading to other countries of Asia, and then moving to Italy and most of Europe, and ultimately everywhere. The immediate and longer-term… Continue Reading
Dr.Riccardo Petrella* Making free the world from the three empires of which the United States is the symbol and the most accomplished reality. Today’s societies are experiencing a phase of crumbling values and rules in all fields, dominated by warrior… Continue Reading
By Daniel Boffey , the Guardian’s Brussels bureau chief Exclusive: ‘The question is how big,’ says Dr Andrea Ammon, who thinks March skiing breaks were pivotal to spread The prospect of a second wave of coronavirus infection across Europe is no longer… Continue Reading
By David Nabarro and Joe Colombano (*) GENEVA, May 19 2020 (IPS) – When the COVID-19 virus travelled from Wuhan, China halfway across the world through Europe, the Americas and beyond in the space of a few weeks, it gave… Continue Reading
Abby Maxman* BOSTON, USA, May 11 2020 (IPS) – NGOs, at the international, national – and most of all local – level are on the frontlines every day. I just heard from Oxfam staff in Bangladesh, that when asked whether… Continue Reading
Cees Hamelink’s Opinion* Government policy is based on expert advice. But experts are not scientists, argues Cees Hamelink. As a scientist it is of course gratifying for me to hear that government policy on covid-19 takes science seriously. And it… Continue Reading
Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson (*) – ETHICAL MARKETS MEDIA Imagine, it is the year 2050 and we are looking back to the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the last three decades. Extrapolating from recent events, we… Continue Reading
FROM PILLAGE TO SECURITY. LIFE FOR ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH Three scourges are devastating the life of the Earth’s Inhabitants – the Covid-19 pandemic ( more than 230,000 deaths). The explosion and spread of the coronavirus are, according… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A riot broke out in a poor, predominantly Muslim neighborhood north of Paris over the weekend. The immediate cause was a traffic offense and a violation of the coronavirus lockdown. The deeper cause was… Continue Reading
