PPI pretends to be an index of positive peace/peaceful society. But is more like an index of “positive for business environment”; by the Institute for Economics…
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The background is the two major communist parties in the world. Russia Communist Party-Bolshevik made the November 1917 revolution; from 1922 the Communist Party of the…
Israel’s options shrink, with decreasing legitimacy; Palestine’s options increase, with increasing legitimacy: – UN resolutions, however often vetoed by USA[i] are having a bite; – More…
Take the candidate debate about nomination and election, focused on Trump’s buffoonery and Sanders’ ineligibility. Hillary?–on using a private account. Few words wasted on her foreign…
Except for a dark shadow, all is normal in the land of Japan. The local levels function very well with diligent Japanese working together to lift…
Kyoto An East Asia of 6 states, 5 from the 6-Party Talks + Taiwan. The 6 in East Asia divide into South Korea-Taiwan-Japan in the US-led…
Jeju Peace Forum, Kwangju National University, Seoul; South Korea Like the Israel-Palestine conflict, the world has gotten tired of it, “what, the two Koreas still unable…
Marinaleda, Spain On a periphery road 108 Km east of Sevilla: one white Andalucian village after the other, traditional, poor; and suddenly this super-modern concrete reality,…
China is changing world geography, or at least trying to do so. Not in the sense of land and water like the Netherlands, but in the…
Antwerpen, Alfaz We are dealing with mass migration, basically into EU, and European nationalisms, many in favor of exits from the EU. Why this mass migration,…
Dear Members of the Iceland Allthing Foreign Affairs Committee, I have been asked to come to Iceland to answer that question; thanks indeed for inviting me…
Alfaz, Spain You are young people on an EU mission exploring good towns that do not generate violence; 50 of you from 11 towns in 10…
Alfaz, Spain Police? The judges have more social status but the police know better the local situation and possible lawbreakers. What is happening right now, for…
School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution – Arlington, VA, USA Classical Realpolitik is the priority in US foreign relations. Let force decide issues, if possible by…
Receiving Gandhi-King-Ikeda Community Builder Prize – Atlanta, 31 Mar 2016 Dear President, dear Dean of Morehouse College, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am deeply honored by the…
Washington, DC The Big View is the West doing badly, euro and pound down with miserable growth rates; US $-growth rate better but erratic; China, India,…
Washington, DC Nobody knows. But under US presidentialism presidents matter; close to a dictatorship for one administration. That is where democracy–for, by if not of the…
Alfaz, Spain At the two ends of the Mediterranean very similar wars are fought against two Arab-Muslim peoples: Palestinians in Palestine-a former English colony-since 1948, and…
The first editorial, “50 Years of Fidel Castro” 3 March 2008, celebrated a political revolution that changed the world, and spelt the end of US-Western imperialism.…
“Mathematics” comes from Greek mathema knowledge, science and mathesis learning, understanding-Leibniz’ mathesis universalis. Deep knowledge? Mathematics started with numbers (arithmetic) and shapes (geometry).* The concepts were…
L’Alfàs del Pi, Spain Two ideas – España Una Grande Libre: Spain One Great Free-status quo and España Una Comunidad de Naciones: Spain a Community…