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Liberty of Thought, Conscience, Religion, and Belief
Note: This piece was originally published on Pressenza and has been reproduced here with permission. Rene Wadlow 25 November is the anniversary date of the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on...
Big Data. A World in the Hands of Mathematicians
Note: This piece was originally published on Other News and has been reproduced here with permission. By Glauco Benigni* Mathematicians, managers of the immense computing powers that command algorithms and point towards transhumanism, will lead us – or probably have...
Trump’s “America First” Foreign Policy Faces an Unceremonious Burial
Note: This piece was originally published on IPS News and has been reproduced here with permission. UNITED NATIONS, Nov 11 2020 (IPS) - The ouster of Donald Trump from the US presidency last week may well be the dawn of a new era for multilateralism – and perhaps for...
THE PROMISE & PERILS OF MEDIOCRACIES
Note: This piece was originally published on Other Stories and has been reproduced here with permission. We humans have evolved a new form of governance beyond our machine age democracies: toward radical still unruly participatory mediocracies in our Information Age,...
A compelling vision for humanity
Note: This piece was originally published on UN 2020 and has been reproduced here with permission. Daniel Perell Representative of the Baha’i International Community UN2020 Coordinating Partner & UN75 People’s Declaration Coordinator Throughout the ages, humanity...
The Charter of the United Nations: Ideals for Shaping Our Reality
Note: This piece was originally published on IPS News and has been reproduced here with permission. NEW YORK, Jul 31 2020 (IPS) - “Reconciling the requirements of the ideal with the possibilities of the real”: this is how Georges Bidault, Minister for Foreign Affairs...
A truly multilateral order can emerge from the ashes of the coronavirus pandemic, with China and Europe leading the way
Note: This piece was originally published on South China Morning Post and has been reproduced here with permission. The destruction wrought by Covid-19 has exposed the flaws of the siloed thinking and unsustainable practices that powered our global order China and...
Globalization: As Fragile And Irreplaceable As Ever
Note: This piece was originally published on World Crunch and has been reproduced here with permission. The coronavirus plague has blatantly conveyed the reality, for better or worse, of a single, globalized space. When the pandemic dies down, expect new...
Covid-19 and The Temptation to Turn Away from Global Engagement
The Covid-19 Pandemic has exposed flaws in the system of economic globalization, a cornerstone of development for countries around the world for the past several decades. Covid-19 is going to force countries to look inward and become economically less dependent on...
The Liberator
March 2020 TGCI Blog Post By Reid Friedson, PhD Note: This piece has been reproduced here with permission How to Heal with Revolutionary Love In Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World (2019), Rabbi Michael Lerner draws upon useful...