By Hazel Henderson* All nations evolve their infrastructure along with their peoples’ knowledge and technologies. From our distant past as small bands of nomadic hunter-gatherers, we learned the use of fire to smelt iron and tin — progressing from the Iron Age to the…
By Barbara Crossette* NEW YORK, May 12 2021 (IPS) – It was all over in one crucial week. Barring an unforeseen hitch, António Guterres is the clear winner of a second, five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations, beginning on…
By Francine Mestrum, PhD, Brussels and Cuernavaca. The crisis caused by the coronavirus is an opportunity to think about the future. This article is about ‘the left’ or ‘progressive forces’ in a very broad sense with implications for political parties and social movements…
Davies – Common Dreams (*) Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq—he resigned when the UN Security Council…
By Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth David Maria SASSOLI President@ep.europa.eu david.sassoli@ep.europa.eu and to the Presidents of the Parliamentary Groups of the EP Manfred WEBER Président, EPP Manfred.weber@ep.europa.eu Iratxe GARCÍA PÉREZ Présidene, PA S&D Président…
By Roy Morrison* – Wall Street International Magazine Failure to build a democratic ecological future will be catastrophic Globally, democracy is under attack and in retreat. Economic crisis, global pandemic, climate disaster raise questions about the efficacy of democracy…
By signatories Indicated at the end of the text* A story of rebelling water. A fantasy provocation in which rebelling rivers overflow to submerge finance exchange headquarters and free the water from the stock market It is 7 a.m. on December 7, 2021.
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute More for Her Climate Warrior Politics Than Her Identity Indigenous Congresswoman Deb Haaland’s confirmation should not be reduced to symbolism. In her farewell address to the House of Representatives, New Mexico…
Por Frank Rijsberman, Ingvild Solvang y Bertha Wakisa Chiudza (*) International Women’s Day, 2021 SEOUL, Republic of Korea, Mar 8 2021 (IPS) – As the global effort to address climate change has strengthened over the last few years, so has the realization that rising temperatures…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* The global rise of the far right has given new relevance to the concept of anti-system in the context of politics. In order to understand what is happening, we need to go back a few decades.
