By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures A few weeks ago, I laid out a model for thinking about the coronavirus crisis. I argued that there were four structures operating: medical, economic, social and military, with the political structure attempting to coordinate all four…
By Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Roberto Savio, Rosa María Artal, Emilio Muñoz, María Novo, Vicente Larraga and Enrique Santiago (*) It has become obvious that the G20 –founded in 2008 to reduce the scandal produced by the autarchic G6, G7 and G8– has been a complete failure, since…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos* 6 April 2020 – Today’s cultural, political and ideological debates are imbued with a strange opacity, the result of their remove from the concrete day-to-day experience of the vast majority of people — ordinary citizens, or la gente de a pie, as…
Riccardo Petrella* I hope not. Guido Viale has written some wise things about this, explaining why a “return to normal” would be a return to catastrophe.
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram* PENANG, Apr 3 2020 (IPS) – Martin Khor Kok Peng passed away just after the end of the first quarter of 2020. He leaves behind an unusually rich legacy.
By Jan Zielonka* -Social Europe (London) While initial responses to the coronavirus crisis have favoured national sovereignty and public authority, effective solutions will only emerge from a complex network of multi-level governance. From Madrid to Paris, Berlin to Warsaw, the…
By Riccardo Petrella* Public water. Starting from the universal public security of water, the first world common good for life.
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…
By Sam Hill* – Newsweek On February 29 in Doha, Qatar, the U.S. signed a peace agreement with the Taliban. Each side gets what it wants most. The US gets to bring home the 12,000 US troops stationed in Afghanistan, as well as a promise from the Taliban to never again allow…
By Cora Weiss* NEW YORK, Feb 12 2020 (IPS) – 75 years ago following the end of the Second World War and the first time any state has dropped an atomic bomb, not once, but twice, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 51 countries from all continents met to create the United Nations. Its…
