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World Gaza: Starving the Innocent, Starving the Conscience of Humanity
“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025 When I read this line, something ruptured deep inside me. Fourteen thousand babies—not numbers...
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World, What is happening? War Is Not Tit for Tat: A Cry for Humanity
On the morning of 22 April 2025, something inside me broke. In a quiet valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—a place known for its beauty and serenity—five armed militants opened fire on non...
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Europe, USA, EU Europe’s Strategic Awakening: Why the Era of Dependence is Over
Europe is stirring from a long geopolitical slumber. For decades security was outsourced, mainly to Washington. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and mounting uncertainty over Amer...
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Serbia, Europe Serbia Rebranded
All roads lead to Strasbourg On 3 April 2025, fifty university students from Novi Sad in Serbia will set off for Strasbourg on bicycles. Having woken up even the smallest places in Serbia, th...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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World Gaza: Starving the Innocent, Starving the Conscience of Humanity
“Fourteen thousand babies could die in the next 48 hours in Gaza.” – United Nations, May 20, 2025 When I read this line, something ruptured deep inside me. Fourteen thousand babies—not numbers...
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World, What is happening? War Is Not Tit for Tat: A Cry for Humanity
On the morning of 22 April 2025, something inside me broke. In a quiet valley near Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir—a place known for its beauty and serenity—five armed militants opened fire on non...
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Europe, USA, EU Europe’s Strategic Awakening: Why the Era of Dependence is Over
Europe is stirring from a long geopolitical slumber. For decades security was outsourced, mainly to Washington. With Donald Trump’s return to the White House and mounting uncertainty over Amer...
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Serbia, Europe Serbia Rebranded
All roads lead to Strasbourg On 3 April 2025, fifty university students from Novi Sad in Serbia will set off for Strasbourg on bicycles. Having woken up even the smallest places in Serbia, th...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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Sustainability The Innovation vs Sustainability Paradox: The Case of AI
Introduction / Our Research Question The world is changing quickly. Generative AI and data centers are growing fast. They are meant to help with sustainability and progress. However, their ene...
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Europe In Neutral Switzerland, Austria Wins Eurovision 2025 as Israel Briefly Unites Europe
As the curtains rise on the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, the picturesque landscapes of Switzerland serve as a reminder of the contest’s origins and its enduring mission to unite Europe in har...
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Europe, Politics Politics at a Crossroads: Lessons from Delphi
“Make Politics Great Again.” That was the parting remark following a conversation I shared with fellow participants at the Delphi Economic Forum (9-12 April 2025), featuring none other than Di...
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Religion, Environment The Green Patriarch
Aspects of the ecological thinking and action of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople* For the past forty years or so, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been undertaking i...
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Africa The Nexus Between Narcoterrorism and Jihadism in the West Africa Sahel
The Sahara and the West Sahel region of Africa have long captured the Western imagination, known for their vast landscapes and rich cultural heritage. However, in recent decades, these areas h...
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Russia, World, India, Peace & Security, Foreign Affairs BRICS: Navigating a Complex Economic and Political Landscape
Initially formed as “BRIC” – Brazil, Russia, India, China – and subsequently becoming “BRICS”, with the addition of South Africa,[1] this group of countries constitutes a unique coalition of e...
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Sustainability The Innovation vs Sustainability Paradox: The Case of AI
Introduction / Our Research Question The world is changing quickly. Generative AI and data centers are growing fast. They are meant to help with sustainability and progress. However, their ene...
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Europe In Neutral Switzerland, Austria Wins Eurovision 2025 as Israel Briefly Unites Europe
As the curtains rise on the 69th Eurovision Song Contest, the picturesque landscapes of Switzerland serve as a reminder of the contest’s origins and its enduring mission to unite Europe in har...
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Europe, Politics Politics at a Crossroads: Lessons from Delphi
“Make Politics Great Again.” That was the parting remark following a conversation I shared with fellow participants at the Delphi Economic Forum (9-12 April 2025), featuring none other than Di...
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Religion, Environment The Green Patriarch
Aspects of the ecological thinking and action of Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople* For the past forty years or so, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been undertaking i...
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Africa The Nexus Between Narcoterrorism and Jihadism in the West Africa Sahel
The Sahara and the West Sahel region of Africa have long captured the Western imagination, known for their vast landscapes and rich cultural heritage. However, in recent decades, these areas h...
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Russia, World, India, Peace & Security, Foreign Affairs BRICS: Navigating a Complex Economic and Political Landscape
Initially formed as “BRIC” – Brazil, Russia, India, China – and subsequently becoming “BRICS”, with the addition of South Africa,[1] this group of countries constitutes a unique coalition of e...
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Citizen Correspondent Reflections on the Politics of Race and Language in a French Classroom
It was mid-June when the summer heat that had already settled over Paris hadn’t yet reached Normandy, when my coworker invited me to his house to celebrate his birthday. It wasn’t a big event ...
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Citizen Correspondent A European in Brexit Britain
If I had a Euro for every time I’ve heard phrases like “we don’t mean people like you” or “you’ll be fine” or “nothing will change” in relation to Brexit, I would be a very wealthy lady by now...
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The invisible ones: people with disabilities in Latin America
“I feel the pandemic has highlighted the invisibility of people with disabilities,” said the mother of Luigi Gabriel, a 9-year-old boy with cerebral palsy. Throughout history, it has been prov...
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Editorials Step back now!
It is most worrisome to witness a further step towards the abyss being taken in the Middle East. The rogue regime of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahou continues to play God and to strike on en...
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Op-ed Shared futures fall apart.
The UN, the perma-polycrisis, and our shrinking moral imagination The United Nations, the world’s most ambitious peace project, is once again on the brink of running out of money. But this tim...
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Op-ed What is a Sadistic State and how can it be countered?
A new kind of state is born Reflecting on what is happening in the US since the (second) Trump inauguration on 20 January 2025, people say it is becoming an authoritarian state, a corrupt stat...
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Op-ed It is Easter again…
It is Easter again, among the holiest of holidays on the Christian calendar. And this year the two Easters coincide, that of the Western Churches, Catholic and Protestant that is, with that of...
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Op-ed Demolishing Trade-based Globalization: Not necessarily a bad thing?
On 2 April 2025, newly declared “Liberation Day for America”, President Trump ceremoniously announced the imposition of trade tariffs on virtually all US trade partners, starting with an acros...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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Op-ed 31 days after: An Imperial Mess
20 January 2025 is not just any inauguration day for just any new US President. All initial signs are that Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President will go down in history as a mom...
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Op-ed Another opportunity missed for humanity…
On 27 January 2025 the world observed Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi concentration and extermination camps nea...
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Editorials Step back now!
It is most worrisome to witness a further step towards the abyss being taken in the Middle East. The rogue regime of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahou continues to play God and to strike on en...
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Op-ed Shared futures fall apart.
The UN, the perma-polycrisis, and our shrinking moral imagination The United Nations, the world’s most ambitious peace project, is once again on the brink of running out of money. But this tim...
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Op-ed What is a Sadistic State and how can it be countered?
A new kind of state is born Reflecting on what is happening in the US since the (second) Trump inauguration on 20 January 2025, people say it is becoming an authoritarian state, a corrupt stat...
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Op-ed It is Easter again…
It is Easter again, among the holiest of holidays on the Christian calendar. And this year the two Easters coincide, that of the Western Churches, Catholic and Protestant that is, with that of...
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Op-ed Demolishing Trade-based Globalization: Not necessarily a bad thing?
On 2 April 2025, newly declared “Liberation Day for America”, President Trump ceremoniously announced the imposition of trade tariffs on virtually all US trade partners, starting with an acros...
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Europe Europe’s Wake-Up Call: Will We Rise or Hit Snooze on History?
“A week is a long time in politics,” as former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson famously remarked. The first two weeks of March 2025 have felt endless, marked by political shifts, surprise...
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World Cometh the End of History
With all that’s been going on in the world lately, I felt the need to express myself in a manner that is safe, controlled, and organized. While that may sound obvious, it really isn’t, not in ...
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Op-ed 31 days after: An Imperial Mess
20 January 2025 is not just any inauguration day for just any new US President. All initial signs are that Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th US President will go down in history as a mom...
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Op-ed Another opportunity missed for humanity…
On 27 January 2025 the world observed Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi concentration and extermination camps nea...
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UN75+25: The Pandemic as another Chance for Opening towards Omnilateralism?
Calculations by the London School of Economics show it clearly. If early on Wuhan could have directly informed a truly “global health organisation” and the epidemic thus been restricted to its...
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UN75+25: A history model for a model future
The United Nations (UN) is formed by the so-called Member States that assemble to promote both world peace and world unity. However, despite humanitarian actions to help nations that suffer fr...
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UN75+25: For a future that does not choose economy over life
We are living in dark times because of the pandemic of COVID-19, which has been affecting many structures of society. Many of the social and economic problems, though, are a historical phenome...
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Artist of the Month Zoe Zeniodi: Maestra of music and social cohesion
Zoe Zeniodi is a conductor from Athens, Greece. She has enjoyed a long and successful career in the world of music, initially as a pianist, but mainly as an acclaimed conductor. She has worked...
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