Robert J. Burrowes* On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for breaching a bail condition. See ‘Arrest update – SW1’. Upon arrival at a London police… Continue Reading
By Sivananthi Thanenthiran* This article of opinión is part of a series on the role of civil society organisations (CSOs), which was the focus of International Civil Society Week (ICSW), sponsored by CIVICUS, in Belgrade, April 8-12 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia,… Continue Reading
Reto Thumiger* – Pressenza Berlin. 31.03.2019 – More than 25,000, mostly pupils and students, have gathered again in Berlin to give visible and audible expression to the climate strike “Fridays for the Future”. Most of the participants were not… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala * – Wall Street International Magazine What only wars were able to do… so far The modern international order was born with the so-called Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that ended the 30-year war in Europe and… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, March 27, 2019 (OtherNews) — Since the powerful march of hundreds of thousands of students in 1,000 towns against climate change, an unexpected campaign of delegitimation, ”demystification” and demonisation has started against Greta Thunberg, the Swedish… Continue Reading
Cristina Sampaio – Movimento europeo in Italia (Rome) As the 23-26 May European elections are coming closer, the European Movement in Italy and the Academic Agora Europe network have listed “ten priorities for a united, democratic and supportive Europe, as… Continue Reading
Intellectuals- to take the lead in social mobilization and ensure that all required changes are implemented before it is too late. Agreement Proposal for Academic, Scientific, Artistic and Literary Communities -in short, for “Each unique human being capable of creating,… Continue Reading
By Ambassador Idriss Jazairy and Roberto Savio (*) Joint Opinion Editorial For over 70 years, the UN system has been perceived as the guardian of peace and development in the world. However, multilateralism today is undeniably under strain. The effectiveness… Continue Reading
*Press release disseminated by the Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue 12 March 2019, GENEVA – Multilateralism must be people-driven. The current rise of populism around the world is inextricably linked to a feeling of being excluded and… Continue Reading
By Roy Morrison* – EcoCivilization Our current path is that of a netocracy and triumph of the billionaires. Jeff Bezos and his billionaire cohort will successfully follow their plans for customer service, fast delivery, cost cutting, labor saving and eventually… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* Rome, Feb., 2019 – I have been a member of the first international party: the Transnational Radical Party, founded in 1956 by Marco Pannella and Emma Bonino. Then in 1988, I was a wetness of the large… Continue Reading
By Robert J. Burrowes* It is easy to identify the ongoing and endless violence being inflicted on life on Earth. This ranges from the vast multiplicity of assaults inflicted on our children and the biosphere to the endless wars and… Continue Reading
By Steven Hahn* – The Nation Is the groundswell of popular discontent in Europe and the Americas what’s really threatening democracy? There is, many believe, a specter haunting the Euro-American world. It is not, as Marx and Engels once exulted,… Continue Reading
Chairman: Roberto Savio Opening with the 13 documents of the working groups – Chairman: Roberto Savio On Friday, December 14, thirteen reports from the working groups carried out in different parts of the world were presented to the Plenary of… Continue Reading
Roberto Savio* ROME, Jan 8 2019- The person most qualified to write the foreword for this latest work by Riccardo Petrella, In the Name of Humanity, would actually be Pope Francis, who, using other words but speaking of values and… Continue Reading
Robert J. Burrowes* In many ways it is painful to reflect on the year 2018; a year of vital opportunities lost when so much is at stake. Whether politically, militarily, socially, economically, financially or ecologically, humanity took some giant strides… Continue Reading
Opinion, by Jerry Coyne* – Newsweek As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology shrink the boundaries of faith, the claims that science and religion are compatible grow louder. If you’re a… Continue Reading
By Branislav Gosovic* GENEVA, Dec 21 2018 (IPS) – The upcoming conference on the Buenos Aires Plan of Action (BAPA+40), scheduled to take place in the Argentine capital on 20-22 March 2019, ought to be more than just another UN… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
By Reva Goujon* – Stratfor Highlights: –Referendums are a compelling tool to engage the public when it has lost faith in the ability of political institutions to uphold a social contract. It is little wonder, then, that referendums have seen a… Continue Reading
