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 and… Continue Reading
Agora of the Inhabitants of the Earth Resolution of the World Assembly of 22 March 2021 Launching of the Campaign Water is a Global Public Good(*) Water continues to be a commodity, ransacked, subjected to devastating commercial and financial domination.… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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 Congresswoman Deb Haaland said… Continue Reading
By Duncan Kelly* – Boston Review Can today’s crises inspire action at the scales required to think about planetary sustainability? Historian Adam Tooze has argued that COVID-19 is the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene, a term encapsulating the idea… Continue Reading
By Philip Oltermann* – The Guardian Pragmatic state premier with flat-top ahead in polls as CDU faces defeat in country’s south-west Winfried Kretschmann, a white-haired former biology teacher who has been the state premier of Baden-Württemberg since 2011, can look… Continue Reading
By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures U.S. foreign policy comes in phases. From the end of World War II to 1972, its goal was to confront the Soviet Union and affiliated communist governments. Things changed a little in the early… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* People, planet and prosperity Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Group of 20, which gather the 20 most important countries of the world. They represent, on paper, 60% of the world population, and… Continue Reading
By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad(*) – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post If you’re like me, you were probably flooded with jubilant messages and memes about the end of 2020. Our black swan year of crisis and calamity, plague and polarization, is over. And in… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* It will be quite different from the one with the Soviet Union While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical realignment has been taking shape in the world, and it will become… Continue Reading
By Farhana Haque Rahman* ROME, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) – Despite its grim record of multiple natural disasters and a deepening climate crisis, one could be forgiven for looking back on 2019 with a degree of nostalgia. There is no… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – Ethical Markets Media The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios. These changing styles of being and behaving are… Continue Reading
By Walden Bello* – Foreign Policy In Focus Hewing to its centrist instincts will be a disaster for the Biden administration. The left must seize the initiative. Donald Trump embarked on an unorthodox course in economic policy that combined tax cuts… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* The recent meeting of the G20 – scheduled to take place in Riyadh but held virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic – has been an eloquent example of how the world is drifting, in a crisis of… Continue Reading
By Vijay Prashad* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute Much will certainly change in the world of U.S. foreign policy when Joe Biden enters the White House. There will be a more measured tone, and less reliance upon Twitter to announce U.S.… Continue Reading
By Hazel Henderson* – The Wall Street International Magazine We humans, having populated every part of Earth’s surface and visited the Moon, now are perched atop the planet’s food chain. We are learning from this perilous position but hastening the… Continue Reading
By Katie Singer* – Wall Street International Letter to Greta Thunberg: the impact of the Internet on global problems awareness Dear Greta, After centuries of too many white people not seeing racism, smartphones have made it undeniably visible. Without smartphones,… Continue Reading
By António Guterres* The UN Secretary-General, in a statement marking the 75th anniversary of the United Nations UNITED NATIONS, Sep 22 2020 (IPS) – The ideals of the United Nations – peace, justice, equality and dignity — are beacons to… Continue Reading
By Elizabeth Crisp* – Newsweek President Donald Trump continued to deny the impact of climate change as he traveled to California on Monday for an update on devastating wildfires that have spread along the West Coast. “It will start getting… Continue Reading
