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In today’s world we face an obvious paradox. On one side, a large share of humanity lives with economic insecurity, falling purchasing…
Early on in this disastrous Trump Presidential term, last February, 2025, I wrote one of these Future Hope columns about the importance…
Since I was a little boy in Athens, I learned at school to cherish two words: integrity and parrhesia ā the courage to speak…
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The auguries are raining down hard. Think or Sink. Comply or Die. Look Up or be Left Out. And so, with these…
Dana CloudĀ puts the horrific rape at Cornell in the context of a socialist analysis of gender violence and the fight for women’s…
The gruff man at the microphone on the stage in the front of the meeting room in the Paris casino in Las…
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Judge Navi Pillayās Nobel Peace Prize award on October 9 was a rare bit of very good news. āIf you clap a…
The Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Navi Pillay who is not, like last yearās laureate, pleading for the worldās largest…
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