By Mikhail Gorbachev To the organizers of the Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Dear friends, I was pleased and encouraged to learn about your initiative of convening the unprecedented Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth. In the present troubled times when many hardly…
BY HAZEL HENDERSON* – Ethical Markets Media In 1986 Scientific American drew attention to this visual of space junk tracked by NORAD, 7,000 spent rocket debris and the 40,000 objects with a diameter of 10 centimeters or more. I used this visual in many of my presentations in…
Federica Marsi – The National The first UN global agreement setting up a common framework on the management of international migration flows was formally adopted on Monday as a two-day intergovernmental conference began in Marrakech. Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser…
Kohls, MD – Duty to Warn* (With attention to what has become known as “The Business Plot”, the “Plot Against FDR” or the “White House/Wall Street Putsch”) December 4, 2018 – I was involved in pro-peace, anti-war, anti-US Imperialism efforts during the most hideous years of the…
Editorial The French president needs to find a way to tackle both climate change and the anger on the streets Almost two decades ago a new fresh-faced leader of the centre-left emerged in Europe and appeared, having won a historic election, on the cusp of changing politics in…
By José Ramos-Horta* Regional and Multilateral Systems Inadequate As I stared at the picture of seven-year-old Amal Hussain dying of hunger I couldn’t contain my anguish, tears flooding my eyes. Some hours earlier I was wining and dining with friends whom I told about my…
Hazel Henderson * – Ethical Markets Media We humans are at the absurd stage in our technological evolution when we seem to have abandoned our common sense. Billions are spent by governments, corporations and investors in training computer-based algorithms (i.e. computer…
Bacevich* -TomDispatch.com/ The Nation What does President Trump’s recent nomination of retired Army general John Abizaid to become the next US ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothing—and arguably quite a lot.
Walter Shapiro* – The Guardian The president thinks justice only matters as it affects him. As his defenders fall away, he may find this all too painfully true A rational president, who had just bludgeoned Brett Kavanaugh onto the supreme court, would not jeopardize the…
By Lee McIntyre* – The Conversation Most politicians lie. Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think about the rest of them.
