Tag Archives: #UN

High Cost of Pollution in Life & Money

Sound economics and health concerns are behind the efforts to reduce pollution in Europe and those other states and regions that have come around to recognize the risks.  According to…

Sport as Diplomacy & Tool for Peace

April 6 is the  International Day of Sport for Development and Peace. Sport in the past and even today has been employed to further nationalism, and perhaps as cover for…

Danny Schechter, Journalist Defining Diplomat-Artist

From the UN to Wall Street, Danny Schechter and I worked together to make/reflect complex issues in multi-media format. Danny has been defined as an “investigative journalist” but he employed…

Dementia is Target of UN

Maybe we have come to see it as inevitable: senior citizens slide away into mental darkness and death. Now though, after several decades of neglect among public policy makers and…

Who Owns the Color Green?

Although perhaps not popular as red or blue or even black, several different nationalities, cultures and religions lay claim to green; and on St. Patrick’s it is the color of…

International Women’s Day & Gender Equality

The world celebrates International Women’s Day on 8 March each year.  It is a day to commemorate women and also a day to reflect on gender equality, assess where we…

World Interfaith Week – Religions Must Come Together to Marginalize Haters Killing in their Name

  Religion is not under attack from another religion but mostly from within who would exploit and pervert for their own power or other self-promoting and/or aggrandizement agenda. This perversion…

Mahatma Gandhi & Martin Luther King – Parallel Leaders Espousing Non-Violence in Civil Disobedience

Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual and political ideals are necessary to implement today more than ever as we confront increased radicalization, fundamentalism, and extremism. Paralleling the late Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.,…