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How To Deinstitutionalize The Practice Of Human Warfare | Bard
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Bard -- World News Trust May 13, 2023 Deinstitutionalizing the practice of human warfare is a complex and challenging task. However, there are a number of things that can be done to move toward this goal. One important step is to educate people about the true costs of war. War is not just about soldiers dying on the battlefield. It is also about the millions of civilians who are killed, injured, ...
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Winners and Losers in Sudan | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudOn Proxy Wars and Superpower Rivalries in the Global South Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust May 2, 2023 The world is changing. In fact, it has been undergoing seismic change that long preceded the Russian-Ukraine war, and the recent US-Chinese tensions in the Taiwan Strait. In fact, the U.S. debacle in Iraq and the Middle East, and the humiliating retreat from Afghanistan were ...
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Tax the Rich to Save the Planet | Owen Gaffney
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Full disk view of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula. Public domain.As the IPCC’s latest report makes clear, averting the worst effects of climate change demands a profound economic transformation in the next decade. Achieving ...
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ChatGDP: How We End Poverty | Francis Goodwin
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Francis Goodwin asks ChatGPT: "How do we end poverty?" ChatGPT: As an AI language model, I do not have personal beliefs or opinions. However, according to the United Nations, ending poverty requires a comprehensive and sustainable approach that includes: 1. Economic growth and job creation: Generating sustained economic growth can create jobs and help people lift themselves out of poverty. 2. ...
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From Great Moderation to Great Stagflation | Nouriel Roubini
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Credit: Project Syndicate Nouriel Roubini -- Project Syndicate Aug 9, 2022 For decades, relative global stability, sound economic-policy management, and the steady expansion of trade to and from emerging markets combined to keep costs down. But now all these conditions have been overturned, and the world is settling into a dangerous and destabilizing new regime. NEW YORK – The world economy is ...
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Notes On The Lemurian Deviation | John Michael Greer
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Dec. 29, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- It’s been more or less standard practice on this blog for a while now that, whenever there are five Wednesdays in a month, I ask my readers what they want to hear about, and write an essay on that subject for the fifth Wednesday’s post. That’s resulted in some of the stranger essays I’ve published here. Readers who don’t know their way around the lingo of classic ...
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The Combating Islamophobia Act: On Hate Crimes and ‘Irrational Fears’| Ramzy Baroud
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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. (Photo: via Facebook) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 27, 2021 The result of a vote, on Dec. 14, in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding the combating of Islamophobia, may, possibly, appear to be a positive sign of change, that Washington is finally confronting this socio-political evil. However, conclusions must not be too hasty. Disquietingly, Congress was ...
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Trudeau’s Parliamentary ‘Victory’ May Cost Him the Next Elections | Ramzy Baroud
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Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust Oct. 3, 2021 Canada’s unpopular general election Sept.20 is increasingly recognized as a mistake by the country’s leading political analysts. However, this mistake could potentially prove to be the very undoing of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in future elections. Sixty-nine percent of Canadians did not think that holding an election during the ...
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The Little Talked About Covid-19 ‘Variants’: Vaccine Mismanagement Will Have Dire Repercussions | Ramzy Baroud
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Systematic neglect and de-development of Palestinian healthcare have left Palestinian communities extremely vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo: Fawzi Mahmoud, The Palestine Chronicle) Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 27, 2021 Do you remember the United Nations Millennium Development Goals? If not, you are not alone. These ambitious goals, which included the eradication of “extreme ...
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G20 ministers set to green light global tax reform | AFP
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July 10, 2021 (AFP) -- Finance ministers from the G20 richest nations resumed discussions in Venice Saturday to give the green light to a historic deal to tax multinational companies more fairly. The framework for reform, including a minimum global corporate tax rate of 15 percent, was agreed by 131 countries earlier this month and could be in place by 2023. Hailed by those involved as historic, ...
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Whispers From Antiquity | John Michael Greer
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June 30, 2021 (EcoSophia.net) -- One of the things I find fascinating about the deepening twilight of industrial society is how rigid our modern notions of technology have become. Most people these days, asked to imagine a society with technology about as advanced as ours, present something all but identical to what we’ve got now; asked to imagine a society with less advanced technology, they ...
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‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech | Yanis Varoufakis | The Guardian
In his new book, the maverick Greek economist says we are witnessing an epochal shift. At his island home, he argues it’s now the ‘fiefdoms’…