The National Society of High School Scholars, Claes Nobel World Betterment Award, Carter Center, 3 Dec 2016 I am very grateful for the 2016 Claes…
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International Sociological Association Prize New School for Social Research, New York NY, 15 Nov 2016 The West, and Western sciences in particular, have a peculiar way…
“View” meaning not only a glimpse from above, but a position taken on the world on which the US electorate is now dumping Donald Trump. That…
The Trump Presidency (1) The 45th President of the USA, Donald Trump, delivered a highly presidential acceptance speech. The words chosen, how he spoke them, his…
Gandhian Perspectives on Conflict and Peace – Hindu University, FL USA Gandhi was born 2 October 1869, was killed 30 January 1948 by a Pune brahmin,…
“Future of the World between Globalization and Regionalization” – European Center for Peace and Development, Belgrade, 2-29 Oct 2016 Summary: Most states are too small given…
The last one hundred years life expectancy has increased by about 25%-from near 80 to near 100-in some countries. But, instead of increasing playful childhood, education,…
Democracy is rule with consent of the ruled; of all by dialogue, of majority by voting. Parliamentarism is government with parliament consent by all or by…
Like a landscape the media-scape has sites: for reading, hearing and viewing; locally, nationally, globally; nine sites. Add No. 10: the internet, a virtual reality, with…
The Debate: Somebody said the problem is Trump possibility and Clinton probability. A very poor choice between an autistic person in his own bubble and a…
Peace is not only a great idea, but something sacred, holy. The number of pointers to peace has to reflect this as a holy number, like…
We want journalists to do that, give us the state of the world, by from one “trouble spot”–arenas of past-present-future violence–to the other. Not to mirror…
Wallerstein is unique. Nobody else has presented such a coherent theory of what he calls the modern world-system, from “the long 16th century” up till today;…
Watching Christianity nearly a century–fundamentalist Christians fighting ritualistic Christians fighting secularism, generally moving fundamentalism–>ritualism–>secularism–maybe the same for Islam? Their similarities make “Islam right now” a repetition…
Dear Reader: This editorial 444–the number calls for attention–is dedicated to a global overview, the world “right now”, so unstable with imbalances everywhere that what we…
Auschwitz, 29 July: Pope Francis praying, asking God for the ‘grace to cry’ (INYT, 30-31 July) was very, very touching. And very, very different from the…
Money is the key: that genius innovation for storing general value and exchanging specific values according to price. Not strange, that heads of state had their…
Does not look good. The key problem is not Brexit, the unlikely victory of older English longing back to the Land of Hope and Glory–not made…
Jondal, Hardangerakademiet, Norway The Hardanger Academy is focused on the three UN concerns, peace-development-environment. This year’s symposium was brilliantly opened by Vandana Shiva, a gift to…
The US mountain, so rich in human talent, labored and produced the two dwarfs for the huge job. A radical Republican strongman[i] and a conventional Democrat,…
Alfaz, Spain Spain got stuck again. The party numbers in a parliament with 350 seats produced no majority 20 December 2015 or 26 July 2016. The…