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LIST of Articles DWF NEWS 8/5/26: Welcoming war criminals a source of shame

Will a World Without Israel Be Safer and More Peaceful? Maung Zarni        Transcend Media Service   The loophole letting war criminals walk…

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Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Increased by 100%

Brazilian Amazon Deforestation Increased by 100%

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped to the highest level for the month of November since record-keeping began in 2015, according to preliminary government data published on Friday. Destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest totaled 563 square km (217.38 square miles) in November, 103% more than in the same month last year, according to the country’s space research agency . . .

Doha Forum + 75th UN anniversary

Written By Organization Press Release | Center for UN Constitutional Research March 20, 2018 Last weekend the premier policy forum in the Middle East, Doha Forum 2019, took place in the city of Doha, Qatar. The forum is a platform for dialogue between policymakers,…

Pope Puts Forth Ecological Sin

Pope Puts Forth Ecological Sin

Pope Francis on Friday issued a warning against the rise of fascist forces worldwide that remind him of the Nazis of the 20th Century as he also railed against corporate crimes and announced consideration of adding “sins against ecology” to the church’s official teachings. During a speech at the Vatican before the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law, a network of justice system and . . .

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…

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Grim History

Historically, we can make fundamental social/political changes! For forty historic centuries we have mainly had kings, nobility, slaves and thousands of wars . . .

To Quote a Kid – Part II

DWFED board member Bob Neumann shares his thoughts, through poetry, on young climate activist, Greta Thunberg. He looks at the words that she delivered to the United Nations, and tell us how it is important in understanding the current situation with global policy and international law. Check it out . . .

The “Skinny” on World Gov-ee-ment

Written By Bob Neumann Secretary | Democratic World Federalists There have been 348 wars since 1946 — 348 wars. (1) The United Nations and the 193 nations that make up  the UN, are a failure at stopping such warring. Can you name one almost war they prevented? Do we…

Another Climate Woe

Gee, I thought the solutions for climate change may be about to happen! We are really becoming aware of the problem world-wide. The climate scientists and climate freaks are finally being heard and many politicians are ready to take action. It has only taken forty or fifty years of talk and pleading by experts . . .

The “Real”

Another beautiful poem by one of the Democratic World Federalists long-time members, Robert “Bob” Neumann. Man of few words, who learned to listen rather than talk. “The ‘Real’” is his critique of an ever-changing world while the human mind seems not to change too much with the times. We still get caught in the same arguments that we had in the past. When will we ever learn something new? Check it out!

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…

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The Two-Headed Hydra of Racism and Imperialism

Black Lives Matter (BLM) has raised mass consciousness against the institution of police violence and the brutality it inflicts on Black communities around the country. The movement has placed the question of police brutality at the top of the political and juridical reform agenda . . .

Global Citizenship

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has taken a lead in Education for Global Citizenship, starting in 2013 with the UNESCO Forum of Global Citizenship Education. Global Citizenship refers to a sense of belonging to the broader community of . . .

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 . . .

What is COVID-19 Trying to Teach Us?

Some people see the world as an infinite number of prize fights, each with one winner and one loser. For them life is an unending series of these zero-sum games. Unfortunately, one of these people is the President of the United States. One example of something that is not a zero-sum game is a global pandemic. Someone else’s sickness is for me not a gain but a threat . . .

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A Universal Basic Income is Essential and Will Work

According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Spain’s Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.” . . .

Only a Green New Deal can douse the fires of Eco-Fascism

ORGANIZERS ARE EXPECTING huge numbers to turn out for the Global Climate Strike, beginning on September 20 and continuing through September 27. It builds on the first global climate strike, which took place on March 15 and attracted an estimated 1.6 million young people, who walked out of class at schools on every continent. But this week’s strike will be different. This time, young organizers have . . .

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China

When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates on July 31st for the first time in more than a decade, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4%, and GDP growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it should have been raising rates. . .

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How the US has Virtually Destroyed the UN

The equivalent, in international law, to a domestic-law crime involving murder, rape, and theft, is an international invasion that’s purely for aggressive purposes and not at all authentically a defensive act against an authentic foreign threat that was coming from the invaded foreign country. Consequently, for the US Government now to have removed the UN from any authority over international invasions, is, in domestic-law equivalency, like removing a national government from authority regarding murders, rapes, and thefts…

Grim History

Historically, we can make fundamental social/political changes! For forty historic centuries we have mainly had kings, nobility, slaves and thousands of wars . . .

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 . . .

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 . . .

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” . . .

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Climate Change Multiplies the Threats of Infectious Diseases

As the novel coronavirus continues to rage like a wildfire across the planet, its devastating toll has left many asking whether climate change — another multifaceted phenomenon with global reach — has played a part in spreading, even triggering, the pandemic . . .

Alexa, Send Nukes

There could be no more consequential decision than launching atomic weapons and possibly triggering a nuclear holocaust. President John F. Kennedy faced just such a moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and, after envisioning the catastrophic outcome of a US-Soviet nuclear exchange, he came to the conclusion that the atomic powers should impose tough barriers…

Articles DWF NEWS 3/4/26

 Rule out sexual blackmail to explain Israel’s control over Trump Why are Americans killing and dying for Israel, again? Tarik Cyril Amar    tarikcyrilamar.substack.com Israel once again has an iron grip over the US government Going to War, again, for Israel…

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Another Climate Woe

Gee, I thought the solutions for climate change may be about to happen! We are really becoming aware of the problem world-wide. The climate scientists and climate freaks are finally being heard and many politicians are ready to take action. It has only taken forty or fifty years of talk and pleading by experts . . .

Evolution Toward World Unity

Pierrre Teihard de Chardin, the French paleontologist, whose birth anniversary we mark on 1 May, after a lifetime of study of the evolution of the human species concluded that humanity was entering a new age with a higher, peaceful and more responsible sense of the unity of the world . . .

A Universal Basic Income is Essential and Will Work

According to an April 6 article on CNBC.com, Spain is slated to become the first country in Europe to introduce a universal basic income (UBI) on a long-term basis. Spain’s Minister for Economic Affairs has announced plans to roll out a UBI “as soon as possible,” with the goal of providing a nationwide basic wage that supports citizens “forever.” . . .

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 . . .

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Global Governance for the 21st Century

The Swedish Foundation felt that the United Nations system was no longer fit for purpose – it no longer fulfilled the aims for which it was established. Clear evidence for this is the fact that we are confronting a range of global catastrophic risks which are putting enormous pressure on our existing institutions, which have remained largely frozen in time in their essential features and . . .

COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital

COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital

COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the second severe acute respiratory syndrome virus since 2002, is now officially a pandemic. As of late March, whole cities are sheltered in place and, one by one, hospitals are lighting up in medical gridlock brought about by surges in . . .

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