By Shaun Walker* – The Guardian The philanthropist who has spent billions promoting democracy talks populism, Trump and powerful enemies Around three decades ago, George Soros was introduced to a brash property magnate over dinner at a country house in the Catskills,… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* From the VC “masters of the universe” on Sand Hill Road and Y Combinator to the social media FAANG monopolists to the adolescent male libertarian bros with their internet startups — all share the fundamentalist faith in… Continue Reading
By Audrey Wilson – Foreign Policy Chile Move Jeopardizes U.N. Climate Summit President Sebastián Piñera’s decision to back out of hosting the U.N. COP25 summit may aggravate tensions with protesters in Santiago Grappling with mass protests, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29 2019 (IPS) – A Republican US Senator of a bygone era was once quoted as saying “a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money.” And, not surprisingly,… Continue Reading
By Kate Nicholson – Express.co.uk CATALONIA protests continue to rage on after Spain jailed leaders of the Catalan separatist movement and, despite campaigners’ pleas, the EU has refused to intervene – even though some separatists believed Brussels would help give… Continue Reading
Gaby Hinsliff* – The Guardian A no-deal Brexit would be catastrophic for UK citizens in the EU. No wonder they spoiled Boris Johnson’s press conference If it was meant to highlight Boris Johnson’s tendency to flee the consequences of his… Continue Reading
By Francesco Martone* “Power inferno”, this is the title Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading
By Jan Lundius* STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 2019 (IPS) – We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues. Worlds which are overshadowed by other, much bigger ones. Global spheres of international finance, politics, climate change,… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* When all is said and done, it appears that Thomas Hobbes, the 17th century English philosopher who had a dire vision of man, was not totally wrong. From the frivolous to the serious, in just a week we have… Continue Reading
Published by Focus on the Global South In the first half of 2019, a great deal of global attention focused on national elections in three countries where authoritarian regimes or personalities were in command of the state: Thailand, the Philippines,… Continue Reading
By Robert J. Burrowes* I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with an explanation of how this came about and what we can do about it.… Continue Reading
By Ulrika Modeer and Susanna Moorehead (*) UNITED NATIONS, Jul 5 2019 (IPS) – The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, universally adopted in 2015, is a plan to create a better and more sustainable future for all in just 15… Continue Reading
By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig Payments can happen cheaply and easily without banks or credit card companies, as has already been demonstrated—not in the United States but in China. Unlike in the U.S., where numerous firms feast on fees from… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* Social Democrats, who had been steadily disappearing following the crisis of 2008, have been making a small comeback in the last year. Now they are in power in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland and, most recently, in Denmark. But… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson, LaRae Long, Timothy Jack Nash Reference suggestion: Henderson, H., Long, L. and Nash, T. “Transitioning to Science-Based Investing”, 2019 Green Transition Scoreboard® Report, Ethical Markets Media, May 2019. © 2019 Ethical Markets Media, LLC This report does… Continue Reading
Introduction, by Paul Raskin We launched our current series on key social movements in November 2017 with a rich discussion of a “global citizens movement” as the missing historical agent for a Great Transition (the GTN exchange is archived at www.greattransition.org/forum/gti-discussions/201-how-do-we-get-there-the-problem-of-action).… Continue Reading
Michael E. Mann* – Newsweek With a climate denier occupying the White House and a Republican Senate enabling his worst impulses, it makes sense that climate activists have been focused on pushing the (increasingly large) herd of 2020 Democratic candidates… Continue Reading
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza* “… Everything is still possible… but who if not all of us can make it become true?”. Miquel Martí i Pol Having a deep knowledge of potentially irreversible processes, I’ve pointed out a long time ago… Continue Reading
BY ISHAAN THAROOR* – The Washington Post A daily newsletter that explores where the world meets Washington Trump and the march of ballot box autocrats To President Trump’s critics, the creeping authoritarianism is in plain view. Take this week: Democrats… Continue Reading
