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Peace & DisarmamentOpen Letter #4 To My Grandson Jake
Dear Jake,It was great fun seeing you and the twins on Skype this weekend. Every time I see you I can tell...
Human RightsU.S. Human Rights Record Illustrates Troubling Indifference To Fundamental Equality
With the U.N. Human Rights Committee reviewing the report the United States has submitted on its own human rights record this month,...
Global CooperationBark v. Bite: Action in the Ukraine
In the wake of continued threats of invasion into the Ukraine by Russia, Western diplomats are drafting Security Council resolutions to take...
Global JusticeThe Patenting of Nature Threatens Food Security and Sovereignty
842 million people were food insecure between 2011 and 2013. This means that 1 in 8 people around the world were “suffering...
Global CooperationU.S. Senate Must Confirm Backlog of Ambassador Nominees
Last week The Washington Post reported that an unusually large number of ambassador appointments are being held up by the U.S. Senate,...
Global JusticeCommission: The Security Council is to Blame for Syria
The UN Security Council has been called out by its own the Human Rights Council's Commission on Inquiry in Syria as enabling...
Climate JusticeClimate Change or System Change?: A Review of “The Anatomy of Change”
Books can provide us with valuable insights about our global problems and how to deal with them. A good example is Glen...
Global CooperationLost Taxes, Global Rules
A company called Zambia Sugar, owned by a European corporation that operates in Zambia, has made an average profit of US$18 million...
The Realpolitik Road to Peace in Ukraine
On his Tuesday visit to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to allay fears that the...
Global JusticeR2P in the Ukraine: Similarities between the Ukraine and Georgia
In the summer of 2008, tensions between Russia and Georgia reached a climax as conflict (now called the South Ossetia War) broke...
Human RightsCosmopolitanism and the Responsibilities of Global Citizenship
What does it mean to be a global citizen? A citizen of the world, or cosmopolitan, is someone who values the equality...