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Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS December 28, 2023
UN Summit of the Future UNFOLD ZERO The Massive Unforgivable Criminality of the U.S. Government Eric Zuesse Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking The Most Israel Lobby Cash Alan MacLeod The American Dictatorship Eric Zuesse How Israel Buys Support From...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS December 14, 2023
Does the Bible Tell Netanyahu to "Utterly Destroy" All Gazans? NYT Amplifies Outrage Over Imaginary Calls for Genocide Ari Paul Will "Christian" Zionism suffer a loss of following after genocide news spreads around the world? Don Hank UN Honor, US Shame in Gaza...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS November 30, 2023
Nader Tells It Like It Is for Gaza: Israel & U.S. Gone Rogue? Israel’s Genocidal Antisemitism Against the Arab Civilians of Gaza Ralph Nader UNGA Leader Asks for Advice -- We Have It INTERVIEW: UN General Assembly resolutions represent 'the conscience of...
WORLD NEWS
Iran Nuclear Accord: The Third Act is Now Starting
The first act of the Iran Nuclear Accord took eight years. The backdrop kept changing from Geneva to Vienna but the actors were nearly all the same. Except for the representative of the European Union it was an all male, middle-age cast with little comic relief, at least on stage. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, to give the play its formal name was signed in 2015 with polite applause and some anticipation of what the next acts might hold…
UN 2020: Two Steps Forward…
Despite the polarization and stasis that characterizes so much of the present politics at the United Nations, Secretary-General António Guterres is betting that the 75th anniversary of the organization in 2020 will provide an opportunity for the international community to begin to address the “crisis in multilateralism,” and shape a more robust and effective organization…
Sex Trafficking: A Form of Modern-Day Slavery
All forms of modern-day slavery affect an estimated 40 million or more people worldwide – mostly women and young girls, ongoing in scores of countries, including America and other Western nations. Human trafficking and forced labor in the US exists mainly in the following forms: prostitution, pornography, and related sex services, domestic indentured servitude, agricultural slavery, industrial sweatshops…
The Anti-Mafia Seminar: A Success and a Starting Point
we had the participation of the President of the Republic, the President of the Supreme Court, the ministers of Justice and Human Rights, of Security and of Foreign affairs, the director of the Anticorruption Office and uncountable procurators, MPs, senators and Executive power officials. On the international side, the director and general prosecutor of the famous Direzione Nazionale Antimafia and four of its main prosecutors, one ICC judge (Aitala), four Italian senators and the former minister of Security of Brazil…
Art of the Deal Revisited While Waiting for the Next Summit
“Good to see you, my friend, hope you had a comfortable trip. Look, our meetings are getting to be a habit, but if we want to continue focusing attention on us, we have to come up with a few things people can easily understand. So we drop unrealistic things and focus on where we can really make a deal…
Geoengineering Governance – NOW on UN Agenda!
Switzerland wants the world to talk about if and how to use untested technology that tampers with nature to slow climate change – and will ask the UN’s environment arm to take the lead. Geoengineering techniques that reflect away sun rays and suck carbon from the atmosphere…
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Arts
A Future War Toy
A poem by Robert (Bob) Neumann, the secretary of the Democratic World Federalists organization. If you have been paying attention you will notice that we have been publishing his works. Why? Because we find it important to promote the ideas of world federalism beyond political, economic, and philosophical analysis. DWFED believes deeply in sharing our ideas in a number of ways…
“Oh Daniel, oh Daniel, it’s not alright,” the world is not “alright”
Every time I say goodbye to Daniel, our 2-year-old grandson, he says to me, “Alright now Grandpa. See you next time.” And, I return to my office and think, ‘Oh Daniel, oh Daniel, it’s not “alright” the world is not “alright” it is not well-arranged. For example, 122 nations want to eliminate all nuclear weapons, but the UN’s Permanent 5 – and its residue insist on keeping theirs…
A Future War Toy
A poem by Robert (Bob) Neumann, the secretary of the Democratic World Federalists organization. If you have been paying attention you will notice that we have been publishing his works. Why? Because we find it important to promote the ideas of world federalism beyond political, economic, and philosophical analysis. DWFED believes deeply in sharing our ideas in a number of ways…
“Oh Daniel, oh Daniel, it’s not alright,” the world is not “alright”
Every time I say goodbye to Daniel, our 2-year-old grandson, he says to me, “Alright now Grandpa. See you next time.” And, I return to my office and think, ‘Oh Daniel, oh Daniel, it’s not “alright” the world is not “alright” it is not well-arranged. For example, 122 nations want to eliminate all nuclear weapons, but the UN’s Permanent 5 – and its residue insist on keeping theirs…
Thou Shalt Not Kill
I argue another wrinkle to Glenn Martin’s Earth Constitution for a worldly government. How do you handle the half a dozen ALMOST war situations the world yearly faces? Violence and war are our ancient handmaidens. My enclosed poem “Thou Shalt Not Kill” outlines my idea…
Soldier for Democracy: John Sutter the World Federalist
John Sutter was a man driven to improve the world and make it better for the people within it, no matter the personal and physical toll. He was a son, brother, husband, father, soldier, and peace activist. Click on the article and learn more about his story and how he came to lead the Democratic World Federalists organization…
Foreign Affairs
Exploding Nuclear Budget
This process will likely take most of the year, and in some years a stalemate has resulted in a “continuing resolution” to fund the government. Expeditiously passing a budget during an election year – particularly one in which the President has been impeached – may prove difficult. This also means that the budget request can be altered substantially by Congress before it goes to the President to sign it into law . . .
Ukraine, Russia, and the USA
As a result of the collapse of the USSR in 1991, 15 independent states were formed. Having freed itself from communism, with powerful industrial and agricultural sectors of the economy, a favorable climate and fertile land, Ukraine could become one of the most prosperous European countries. However, this did not happen, and the state slipped into an economic crisis and for six years now . . .
American Admiral forgets about Nuclear War
In late February, Adm. Charles Richard, head of US Strategic Command, told a House committee that the innovations going into a new nuclear warhead are what make him “proud to be an American.” He was referring to the W93, a new nuclear warhead that will be used on submarine-launched ballistic missiles and that the Trump administration wants $53 million to start work on this year . . .
P-5 Willing to Call Emergency Meeting over Arms Control
U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, China, Britain and France – the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – to discuss arms control, a senior administration official said on Friday. Trump wants to use the meeting to try to make progress on a three-way arms control deal with Russia and China, the official said. The timing for a summit was unclear . . .
Ukraine, Russia, and the USA
As a result of the collapse of the USSR in 1991, 15 independent states were formed. Having freed itself from communism, with powerful industrial and agricultural sectors of the economy, a favorable climate and fertile land, Ukraine could become one of the most prosperous European countries. However, this did not happen, and the state slipped into an economic crisis and for six years now . . .
American Admiral forgets about Nuclear War
In late February, Adm. Charles Richard, head of US Strategic Command, told a House committee that the innovations going into a new nuclear warhead are what make him “proud to be an American.” He was referring to the W93, a new nuclear warhead that will be used on submarine-launched ballistic missiles and that the Trump administration wants $53 million to start work on this year . . .
P-5 Willing to Call Emergency Meeting over Arms Control
U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, China, Britain and France – the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – to discuss arms control, a senior administration official said on Friday. Trump wants to use the meeting to try to make progress on a three-way arms control deal with Russia and China, the official said. The timing for a summit was unclear . . .
Solving Global Problems
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Economics and Finance
A World Without Trade Deficits
John Maynard Keynes needs no introduction as the most important economist of the 20th century. His theories have shaped modern economics like few others. However, his vision for the international trade system, or bancor for short, has been mostly forgotten. As with anything even remotely Keynesian, the idea of bancor had a mini-resurgence in the wake of the 2009 crisis. George Monbiot wrote an article regarding bancor in the Guardian and the governor of the Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, praised the idea in a speech. But this buzz has since died down. Bancor is a radical rethinking of international trade…
BRICS Summit Held in South Africa While U.S. Trade War Escalates
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) want to expand international cooperation and seek avenues of development independent of the western industrialized states…
Attacking Income Inequality by Limiting Wealth
In his new book, The Case for a Maximum Wage, author Sam Pizzigati argues for limiting the income of the wealthy while raising the minimum wage. In fact, Pizzigati believes that narrowing the income gap is not possible without a limit on the highest incomes. In this interview, Pizzigati discusses the idea that the rich need financial boundaries…
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Regions
Get the Point: Nuremberg and Media
Who knew? I certainly didn’t know that journalists were among those prosecuted for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity during the Nuremberg Trials post-WWII. It intrigued me even further to read that my namesake, Fritzsche (nickname, Fritz) that is, Hans Fritzsche was one of those defendants. The Nuremberg prosecution argued: “By virtue of . . .
Ukraine, Russia, and the USA
As a result of the collapse of the USSR in 1991, 15 independent states were formed. Having freed itself from communism, with powerful industrial and agricultural sectors of the economy, a favorable climate and fertile land, Ukraine could become one of the most prosperous European countries. However, this did not happen, and the state slipped into an economic crisis and for six years now . . .
Six Years after the Maidan – Reply to Steven Pifer JRL 2020
A World Federalist's PerspectiveEtienne BowieThe mainstream and politicos would have you believe that progressives and those on the left of the political spectrum don't want security nor a military defense force. This of course is incorrect, the reality is that we...
Trump Budget Gives Top Priority to New Generation of Nuclear Weapons
A World Federalist's PerspectiveEtienne BowieAs world federalists, we must ask ourselves should the world be left to the control of the Chinese or, I would say the United States but the reality is that the neoliberal economic philosophy has led the western world to be...
Dangerous Charges in Brazil Threaten Journalists
Federal prosecutors in Brazil on Tuesday charged the American journalist Glenn Greenwald with cybercrimes for his role in bringing to light cellphone messages that have embarrassed prosecutors and tarnished the image of an anti-corruption task force. In a criminal complaint made public on Tuesday, prosecutors in the capital, Brasília, accused Mr. Greenwald of being part of a “criminal organization” that hacked into . . .
“Bloody Nose” Operation
America’s hegemonic military agenda in the Middle East has reached a dangerous threshold. The assassination of IRGC General Soleimani ordered by the President of the United States on January 3, 2020, is tantamount to an Act of War against Iran. President Donald Trump accused Soleimani of “plotting imminent and sinister attacks”: “We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war…. we caught him in the act and terminated him” . . .
Uganda Announces ‘Kill the Gays’ Law
Uganda has announced plans to impose the death penalty on homosexuals. The bill, colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda, was nullified five years ago on a technicality, but the government said on Thursday it plans to resurrect it within weeks. The government said the legislation would curb a rise in “unnatural sex” in the East African nation . . .
‘Pinochet-Style Dictatorship’ in Bolivia
As indigenous-led protests against the military coup that ousted Evo Morales continued in the streets of Bolivia over the weekend in the face of violent repression by police forces, the government of self-declared Interim President Jeanine Añez on Sunday announced the creation of a “special apparatus” to arrest elected lawmakers from the majority Movement for Socialism party . . .
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Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS November 30, 2023
Nader Tells It Like It Is for Gaza: Israel & U.S. Gone Rogue? Israel’s Genocidal Antisemitism Against the Arab Civilians of Gaza Ralph Nader UNGA Leader Asks for Advice -- We Have It INTERVIEW: UN General Assembly resolutions represent 'the conscience of...
ARTICLES FOR THIS ISSUE: DWF NEWS NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Gaza Children Buried Alive, Buried Alive, Buried Alive Roger Kotila, PhD Let Them Eat Cement Chris Hedges Israel's Culture of Deceit Chris Hedges The Ten Dumbest Things We’re Being Asked To Believe About Israel’s War On Gaza Caitlin Johnstone Craig Mokhiber on UN's...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS July 20, 2023
ICC afraid to prosecute leaders from the West responsible for world crimes From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self-Serving Narratives Must Be Combated Ramzy Baroud UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Israel Has Turned All of Palestine Into 'An Open-Air Prison' to...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS July 6, 2023
'Why Are We Tempting Nuclear Annihilation?' Max Blumenthal to UN Security Council Max Blumenthal EU Parliament Pushes for Probe with ICC into Israeli War Crimes News Desk, the Cradle Mainstream Media Colludes with US Government to Conceal Source of...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS June 22, 2023
Looking to UN Charter to Challenge US Empire Emergence of a New Non-Alignment Vijay Prishad What Ended Democracy in U.S.-and-Allied Countries Eric Zuesse Defund the Military Roger Kotila Udo Ulfkotte - Confession of a Mainstream Journalist Olga...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS June 8, 2023
Reverse the Accelerating Warfare State Before It's Too Late Ralph Nader The Wars We Don't (Care to) See David Barsamian & Norman Solomon Equal Justice: Why Biden Must Also Be Investigated for War Crimes Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine, Human Rights, &...
Activism
Honoring WWII Vets with WWIII on the Horizon
One would assume that in times of major upheavals all of us realize how fragile this beautiful planet Earth and its entire living species are. The number of the threats to our survival is constantly growing with the recent addition of COVID-19 to an already weighty list that included nuclear security, international terrorism, climate change, and even asteroid strike, to name just a few . . .
Exploding Nuclear Budget
This process will likely take most of the year, and in some years a stalemate has resulted in a “continuing resolution” to fund the government. Expeditiously passing a budget during an election year – particularly one in which the President has been impeached – may prove difficult. This also means that the budget request can be altered substantially by Congress before it goes to the President to sign it into law . . .
American Admiral forgets about Nuclear War
In late February, Adm. Charles Richard, head of US Strategic Command, told a House committee that the innovations going into a new nuclear warhead are what make him “proud to be an American.” He was referring to the W93, a new nuclear warhead that will be used on submarine-launched ballistic missiles and that the Trump administration wants $53 million to start work on this year . . .
P-5 Willing to Call Emergency Meeting over Arms Control
U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, China, Britain and France – the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council – to discuss arms control, a senior administration official said on Friday. Trump wants to use the meeting to try to make progress on a three-way arms control deal with Russia and China, the official said. The timing for a summit was unclear . . .
The Best of Times . . . The World of Times
As we enter a new decade, it’s hard to know whether we should be grateful for the good life we enjoy or fearful of the days ahead. Most of us here in the U.S. go to bed with full stomachs each night, enjoy a standard of living that was unheard of for the masses in previous generations and have sufficient savings to tide us through the remainder of our days. Our life expectancy is far greater than any other . . .
Antarctica Just Recorded its Hottest Temperature on Record
Antarctica has logged its hottest temperature on record, with an Argentinian research station thermometer reading 18.3C, beating the previous record by 0.8C. The reading, taken at Esperanza on the northern tip of the continent’s peninsula, beats Antarctica’s previous record of 17.5C, set in March 2015. Antarctica’s peninsula – the area that points towards South America – is one of the fastest-warming places on earth, heating by almost . . .
“Bloody Nose” Operation
America’s hegemonic military agenda in the Middle East has reached a dangerous threshold. The assassination of IRGC General Soleimani ordered by the President of the United States on January 3, 2020, is tantamount to an Act of War against Iran. President Donald Trump accused Soleimani of “plotting imminent and sinister attacks”: “We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war…. we caught him in the act and terminated him” . . .
Uganda Announces ‘Kill the Gays’ Law
Uganda has announced plans to impose the death penalty on homosexuals. The bill, colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda, was nullified five years ago on a technicality, but the government said on Thursday it plans to resurrect it within weeks. The government said the legislation would curb a rise in “unnatural sex” in the East African nation . . .
UN Peacekeepers Fathered Hundreds of Haitian Children on Mission
A World Federalist's PerspectiveEtienne BowieAs world federalists, we must ask ourselves should the world be left to the control of the Chinese or, I would say the United States but the reality is that the neoliberal economic philosophy has led the western world to be...
News Analysis
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS October 12, 2023
From UN Charter Review to the Earth Constitution Federating the world to tackle global existential threats EuropeTodayMagazine THE EUROPEAN THINK TANK They're Repeating the Word 'Unprovoked' Again this Time in Defense of Israel Caitlin Johnstone Israeli Zionists Defy...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS September 28, 2023
At UN General Assembly Session, Global South Leaders Call for Urgent Reforms People's Dispatch Latin America's Progressive Bloc Lines up at the UN against Washington Sanctions Ociel Alí López Should World Federalists Reexamine the Use of R2P? Responsibility to Protect...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS September 14, 2023
UN’s failure opens door to dynamic alternatives Grassroots effort to create a world parliament and abolish war Ukraine neutrality a key to a peace deal Avoiding Nuclear War Edward Lozansky NATO Chief Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion Caitlin...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS August 31, 2023
Notes from Caitlin: What Americans Don't Want to Hear Caitlin Johnstone Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards Caitlin Johnstone BRICS calls for global economic decision making in the interest of the majority...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS August 16, 2023
US Empire's Warmongering Gets Sneakier Caitlin Johnstone Clearing the Fog of 'Unprovoked' War Edward Lozansky Your Comment Has Been Approved Roger Kotila America's top 5 weapons contractors made $196B in 2022 Connor Echols You Ignore...
Articles for This Issue: DWF NEWS August 3, 2023
What's So Important About The San Francisco Promise? Roger Kotila & Suchismita Pattanaik Enact World Democracy, Starting Now Byron Belitsos World Democracy Day, World Voting Districts Earth Constitution Institute War made invisible How to...
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World Federalism
A Progressive Reform Agenda for the United Nations
Core the idea and development of the United Nations is the belief of “progressive” change. While not presently advocating any specific measures, the UN2020 Initiative has identified some core principles and approaches for renewing the UN system . . .
The New World Disorder
Many will find in this pandemic an opportunity to close themselves off to the international community. India must defy such impulses. If anything, Indian leadership in these times — and a new resolve for global governance — may be just the vaccine that the international community needs to navigate a new decade . . .
World federalism, global democracy and coronavirus
The coronavirus crisis shows the consequences of the enormous contradiction under which seven billion human beings live now: a world globalized by technology and economy but politically divided into almost 200 nation-states all taking separate and uncoordinated measures. Does anyone still believe this can work? . . .
Secretary-General’s appeal for global ceasefire
23 March 2020 – Transcript of the Secretary-General’s virtual press encounter on the appeal for a global ceasefire. However, it seems that the global ceasefire may be off the table if the UN Security Council cannot get the P-5 nations and nations in conflicts onboard . . .
Women In Global Governance: Never Ending Fight For Equality?
Despite the numerous accomplishments of women in the global arena there still exists a void in global governance; this demands to be filled by greater ‘gender analysis’ and ‘gender mainstreaming’. Are these calls justified or are they merely the pursuits of particular interests? . . .
BRICS: The Stepping Stones Towards New Global Governance
n the beginning of 2020 Russia assumed chairmanship in the BRICS amid an escalation in geopolitical risks and further shocks to the global economy. Among the plethora of priorities and initiatives that are traditionally launched by countries assuming chairmanship in the BRICS the . . .
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