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Civil rights

Time to rethink our technology choices!

By Hazel Henderson* – Wall Street International Magazine  Green investing goes mainstream globally Remember the bumper sticker: Technology is the answer! But what is the question?

Civil rights

Water: A Matter of Survival in the World of Pandemics

By Guillaume Baggio, Manzoor Qadir and Vladimir Smakhtin (*) HAMILTON, Ontario, Canada, Jul 1 2021 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably amplified the existing vulnerabilities of billions of people worldwide. Marginalized communities in developing countries were excluded…

Civil rights

MOVE UP ! No profit on People and Planet

International video conference 18 May 2012 from 4pm to 8pm Meeting with political and social personalities from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa, to present the Citizens’ Memorandum FOR A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY On the occasion of the G20 Global Health Summit…

Civil Society

Democracy in the 21st century

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…

Civil rights

Water Is a Global Public Good

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. Water…

Civil rights

RIVERS IN REVOLT ENGULF THE WORLD'S STOCK MARKETS

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.

Climate Change

The Politics of the Anthropocene in a World after Neoliberalism

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 that human…

Climate Change

Merkelism without Merkel: Green hopes high before German state vote

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 forward to…

Environment

Obama, Trump and Biden: Consistency in Foreign Policy

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.