Challenges of our times and generation, memories and others. We face numerous challenges, both political, social, technological and last but not least environmental issues. We know that climate change is a fact, that the gap between the wealthy and the poor is growing at global level, that there is political polarization of enormous proportions. Along with this we have technological advancements, however with great concern on misuse and even abuse. Global health is at crisis and education and opportunities are subject to systemic inequalities. However, amidst all this we can challenge the status quo, inspire progress and transformation. And all this to strive for a world more fair and sustainable,
“I have not seen anywhere else in the world a gun lobby that has the same level of influence on its own government as the NRA does in the United States.” –Andrew Feinstein. – “I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of insidious…
>”Don’t sweat the small stuff when so much else matters.”< Predictions are not always easy and sometimes impossible. We have one certainty and this is that not nothing is certain. Our agenda for tomorrow based on today or yesterday may well work out, but sometimes it may get disrupted by the unexpected and we have…
“In my time I have seen truth that was anything under the sun but just, and I have seen justice using tools and instruments I wouldn’t want to touch with a ten-foot fence rail” – William Faulkner (Knight’s Gambit 1949) Justice, balance of power and peace Former Prime Minister Paul Keating said the…
– http://cdn.theguardian.tv/brightcove/2012/3/26/120326ObamaHu-16×9.mp4 “Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” – Abraham Lincoln – Speaking about an increasing shift in US troops from the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan to the Asia-Pacific region. – It would seem that the 21st century will be America’s Pacific century with promoting trade and economic ties,…
Ten years on … President Barack Obama embraces a victim’s relative as he visits the north pool of the World Trade Center site with first lady Michelle Obama, former President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush. (Photo removed as due to copyrights) – – “Allow the president to invade a neighboring…
Whilst democratic movements spread across the globe the concept of “democracy” being potentially at risk is more clear than ever before, – not really only by those countries opposing the principles of democracy, but even more at times by those who are supposed to protect it. On a positive note for the US, the 2011 Obama Administration seems to work within…
Introduction. With the 2012 US Presidential elections in sight, we are now slowly closing in on the first 1000 days in Office of the current 44th US President Barack Hussein Obama, – borne the 4th of August 1961 in Hawaii. Upon taking office Barack Obama was seen as a refreshing alternative for his predecessor President George…
