Globalism

Pirate hijackings off the coast of Africa have spawned a lucrative protection industry. With private security guards taking to the oceans in ever increasing numbers, is this really the way to safer seas?

Garry Davis, who died July 24, 2013, in Burlington, Vermont, was often called “World Citizen N°1.”  It was Davis in Paris in 1948-1949 who reached a wide public and popularized the term “world citizen”.

To break out of Edward Snowden’s Catch 22 situation, a world citizen passport was issued to Snowden on July 7th by Garry Davis, the president of the World Government of World Citizens.

We are in the midst of a structural transition from a fading capitalist world-economy to a new kind of system. But that new kind of system could be better or worse. That is the real battle of the next 20-40 years.

Historic change eventually comes via small and modest beginnings. The current revolts in Brazil and Turkey actually started in low-key fashion at least one decade ago.

This year’s World Social Forum was considered a success by many of its organizers. Held for the first time in an Arab country, it was called “the forum of a new generation” by one delegate of the WSF International Council during an evaluation the day after it ended. “We’ve shown that the Arab Spring is not over.”