Make Lavender Not War by Herve Rakoto Razafimbahiny, M.D.
Make Lavender, Not War
by
Herve Rakoto Razafimbahiny, M.D.
We live in turbulent but interesting times. We hear everywhere that we are now a global village and that we’ve become global citizens but what does this really mean? In Reappraisals, historian Tony Judt told us that “globalization isn’t primarily about trade or communications, economic monopolies or empire. Those aspects of life were already “globalizing” a hundred years ago. Globalization is about the disappearance of boundaries – cultural and economic boundaries, physical boundaries, linguistic boundaries - and the challenge of organizing our world in their absence”. When World War One ended with tens of millions of casualties from combat and diseases, World War Two, “the most lethal and destructive war in the history of mankind” was just a few years away. Perhaps, one hundred years after the end of World War One, thinking back to World War Two and all the wars that have occurred since, we have to ask ourselves if we have done a good job at reorganizing the world and making it more peaceful. Despite putting in place an international system to manage the post-war period and prevent World War Three, these institutions for global security and governance now date back to a post-World War Two order and do not at least in part validly represent the world and its balance of powers, great and small, as it is now. At a time when we cannot put the nuclear genie back in the bottle and with “perpetual wars” around us –the US has been at war for the past 17 years with no end in sight--, we must now find a way to avoid the coming catastrophe. But perhaps, all is not so grim. Just in the past thirty years, thanks to expanding economic freedom and free trade, regardless of the political regime, one billion people moved out of poverty, mostly in emerging countries.
So what if in place of weapons and wars, while at the same time improving global governance and collective security, we could instead set aside a reasonable part of these vast resources to entrepreneurs, production and education? In the next few lines, I wish to advance the idea that creating and sharing wealth through entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs, and sharing knowledge through education, we can build fairer, more diverse and more open societies and thus, a better world. And what if, at the same time, women and those excluded by globalization or their own states, were to have more economic power, enter politics ‘’en masse’’ and were able to play a leading role, propose a different vision, and take the fate of the world into their own hands?
Leading Us into Perpetual Wars
Raymond Aron, the political philosopher and author of Peace and War among Nations called war a “detestable thing” but he also understood “the tension between the moral imperative of peace and the realities of the ‘state of war among nations’. Because states have yet to find a better way to resolve major disputes among themselves, he went on to explain why war remained an essential part of world politics. However, he added that the possibility of nuclear war and mutually-assured destruction changed everything since such a war is not about disarming the enemy and destroying his capacity to fight but about completely annihilating the enemy and his country, perhaps even humanity itself. At another level, Daniel Ellsberg, the author of The Pentagon Papers believes that war is part of “the human condition” . . . “you do not back down from a fight. You cannot lose territory, you cannot lose face. I am not saying this metaphorically. I’m saying this is in the small what’s going on in the large. This battle for turf.” Yet, if war is such a detestable thing, why then is war all around us and the specter of nuclear war (and biological, chemical, cyber or AI warfare) ever more present.
In The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich, the writer and Nobel laureate from Belarus, gave us yet another perspective, the voices of women in war, one seldom heard: “women’s war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words. There are no heroes and incredible feats, they are simply people who are busy doing inhumanly human things”. Varlam Shalamov, the Russian poet and Gulag survivor, described it this way. “I thought they would make us heroes of cantatas, posters, books of all kinds, that hats would be flung in the air and streets go out of their minds. We had returned. We were unbowed. We had stayed true. But the city had thoughts of its own; it just muttered a word or two”.
Not too long ago, millions of Americans and millions more around the world protested the decision to invade Iraq. Something else altogether happened: the war on truth. A majority of the political leadership in the United States at the time rushed to prosecute the war, and leading experts in the foreign policy community, top academics, renowned journalists and media outlets joined them in beating the war drum. Dozens of countries joined in the war effort. In the prevailing hysteria, a majority of people in the world and those in the US who opposed the war were branded traitors and even long-standing allies of the United States like Germany, France, Turkey, South Africa and Canada suddenly became the enemy for not agreeing to be misled. But this war on truth did not begin with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It was already there during the Vietnam War and it continues to this day. Do we really know the ongoing cost and consequences of the war in Iraq and those in Libya and Afghanistan, the wars in Africa, for the most part unseen, not just in terms of deaths, destruction, and human suffering –for soldiers and veterans and their families but for civilians too, in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, the US and Europe? The cost to treasury is rapidly closing in on 6 trillion dollars (15 trillion USD globally) with a “breathtaking 8 trillion dollars extra in interest on past war borrowing by the 2050s” according to Brown University’s Costs of War Project. Faithless said it best, “misinformation is” indeed “a weapon of mass destruction”.
Seymour Hersh, the investigative journalist who revealed the massacre of civilians in Vietnam and the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, says it best. The problem is that “the republic’s in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple”. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg calls it an “epidemic of dishonesty”. Journalist Robert Scheer reminds us on why we need more people like Seymour Hersh, Daniel Ellsberg and others because “without such people of conscience’’, ‘’it’s far too easy for the government to create convenient enemies and launch dubious wars”. José Pépé Figueres Ferrer, a.k.a Don Pépé, the founder of modern Costa Rica, the country that famously abolished its army in 1948, once said, ‘’I think we are just as barbaric as the primeval tribes, because they also lived in perpetual warfare, and in a different way we are dedicating a tremendous amount of our energies to warfare whether it is a hot war or not, and this is, really, keeping not only the underdeveloped world underdeveloped but the underdeveloped sections of the United States and of the rich nations underdeveloped”. . . . “Then and today war continues to be our main enemy”.
Military historian Andrew Bacevich describes the United States as having become “addicted to war”. But what if we resorted to war only in cases in which we have to defend ourselves (and our allies) against aggression and we cooperated with other great powers to deter and defend against aggression? The world is indeed a dangerous place and author Amos Oz once addressed this issue for us, “what is one justified in dying for and what is it permissible to kill for?” He added “If I am not mistaken, my answer is life itself, and freedom. And nothing else. Not holy places, not national interests, not resources. But life and freedom.” William Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel from the US Air Force, tells us that wars, “as debilitating as they may be to militaries, long wars are even more devastating to democracies. The longer our military wages war, the more our country is militarized, shedding its democratic values and ideals”.
Raymond Aron also once pointed to something quite relevant to our times on what he perceived to be the decadence of the West and how we take democracy for granted and are not ready to fight for it: “if one loves peace, it is not out of cowardice. It is ridiculous to set regimes founded on work against regimes founded on leisure. It is grotesque to believe that cannons can be resisted with butter, or effort with rest. In this case, we are our own worst enemies”. Raymond Aron adds “the growing decay of the democracies is not manifested just in the material order, it is manifested in the fact that, to a large extent, the very people who live in democracy . . . don’t much believe in the value of the regime under which they live”. Michael Bloomberg agrees and recently stated that “the greatest threat to American democracy isn’t communism, jihadism or any other external force or foreign power. It’s our own willingness to tolerate dishonesty in service of party, and in pursuit of power”. I believe this to be true not only in the United States but in many other democracies around the world in Europe, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere.
Should we not pause and reflect on this? How much of a dysfunctional democracy and these “perpetual wars” have resulted in a mistrust in our politicians in Western countries, between us and democratic institutions that do not play their role, a suspicion of much of the media and a greater divide and intolerance in society with those we do not agree with? Even as we are now told by our politicians, with most of the media and foreign policy experts in tow that we have more enemies on the horizon and we must once again prepare for war, we in civil society are certainly justified when we have doubt and remain skeptical. Even before the last electoral cycle in the United States in 2016, a majority of Americans were against the war in Iraq and expressed their opinions about ending all the wars the US was involved in. The opposite has taken place since then and we have become more divided and demobilized. So, before the next war is launched, I would like to try and make the case for thinking and doing things differently.
Lavender for Life
This is a tale of an extraordinary entrepreneur with a passion for the land and a deep love for nature and all things natural. In 1976, Olivier Baussan, a literature student aged 23 started producing rosemary and lavender oils and soaps that he would sell in open-air markets around his village of Volx in Provence in Southern France. Olivier Baussan had bought an old steam distiller in an antique market for the price of its copper and with little technical knowledge, he started distilling his first rosemary and lavender oils. He opened his first store two years later and named his company L’Occitane with a focus on natural products and scents. In his words, “everything inspires me in that beautiful region! Provence is a name that makes me dream of warm colors, scents, wild landscapes and sunny, quaint villages”. “Provence, for me, is like a world where you can take time to live and enjoy”. “It definitely has something absolutely magical, and I am so happy I had the chance to share it”. Mr. Baussan credits Reinold Geiger, an Austrian entrepreneur and now CEO of L’Occitane en Provence, in creating the worldwide success of his dream and vision for natural cosmetics.
One day, Olivier Baussan heard of shea butter for the first time while in Cape Verde and the sacred tree whose nuts are harvested only by women. He immediately decided to fly to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. In his words, “it is an incredible ingredient, I could see it immediately. It was the Burkinabe women who taught me all the properties of the nuts. I couldn’t guess the world would love it, but I knew it was great and I wanted to use some for L’Occitane, not only for the product itself, but also for the people of Burkina Faso”. At the beginning, about a dozen women were involved in this partnership. Nowadays, the cooperative employs over 14,000 women. In 2010, L’Occitane went public on the Hong Kong stock exchange and now operates in more than 90 countries with 1,500 retail locations and revenues of close to 1.2 billion euros. Going back to that very first store in Volx funded with the help of family and friends, we are grateful Olivier Baussan, the “poetic founder”, stuck to “his dream and his creative vision”. With others like him, lavender is now grown all over the world, from India to South Africa and the United States, and Bulgaria has overtaken France as the world’s largest producer. Essential oils are now big business expected to grow to 27 billion USD by 2022 from 17 billion USD today. The best news is that they grow in most countries on all continents and since we cannot get enough of our beauty products and our aromatherapy sessions, the future looks bright for our skins and for all producers.
Make Something, Anything, Not War
Olivier Baussan and thousands of great entrepreneurs like him found a “preexisting gaping hole in the market” and “the profit opportunity it represents” to which they responded in the most creative way. Economist Israel Kirzner of Austrian economics best explains this way the central role of entrepreneurs in society. Entrepreneurs Bethlehem Alihum Alemu of soleRebels, Brandi Temple of Lolly Wolly Doodle, Janan Leo of Cocorose London, Master baker Djibril Bodian, Pastry Chef and Master Chocolatier Gilles Marchal, Chef Christine Ferber, Chef Thierry Marx, farmers Otchan San, Eliza Biliati and Amanda Owen and Maison Antoine –said to be a favorite of Chancellor Angela Merkel when she attends European Council meetings in Brussels—that once started making the best French fries in the world from a tiny trailer, just a few extraordinary examples of successful SMEs that have changed the world and made it richer and better through entrepreneurship and perfect craftsmanship. And SMEs are the key to wealth creation –this was the vision of entrepreneurs extraordinaire Jack Ma and Cathy Zhang, the co-founders of Alibaba in their apartment in Hangzhou, China, back in 1999--as they represent 95% of all enterprises in the world, account for more than 60% of all employment and over half the global GDP (Edinburgh Group, 2012), and this should include all manufacturing SMEs (Alibaba has a market cap today of over 450 billion USD and is expected to reach a 1 trillion USD market cap by 2020!) and high-end manufacturing like the extraordinary example of cover glass made by Lens Technology, the company founded by Zhou Qunfei who dropped out of high-school at age 16. Lens Technology was once an SME started with family members and $3,000 in savings and any SME anywhere in the world is now possibly an e-commerce business in the making with potentially global reach.
It is not just in manufacturing, just imagine the products of imagination and extraordinary talent and hard work. Not too long ago, just out of school, Adèle’s school project demo with three of her songs was posted on MySpace and Ed Sheeran was sleeping on Jamie Fox’s couch in Los Angeles waiting to be “discovered”; Rihanna used to sell clothes in a street stall with her dad in Bridgetown, Barbados, while also going to school; Jennifer Lawrence was acting in “church plays and school musicals” somewhere in Louisville, Kentucky, and Beyoncé was singing in a church choir in Houston. Also in Houston, a few years earlier, Robert Glasper following the example of his mother, a jazz and blues singer, first started performing as a pianist at the church where his mother was musical director. Serena and Venus Williams had started practicing with their dad on public tennis courts in Compton, CA. A few years later, Lieke Martens and Marcelo Vieira da Silva were kids playing soccer with their school friends in The Netherlands and Brazil respectively. Add to this list Pedro Martinez and David “Big Papi” Ortiz who had once been learning the ins and outs of baseball in Santo Domingo that would one day turn them into baseball greats. Sade Adu once trained to be a fashion designer in London. Sonya Yoncheva was studying music in a small town in Bulgaria and Shah Rukh Khan excelled in sports in Dehli but fortunately for us, Sade Adu decided in favor of music, Ms. Yoncheva opted to sing and not play the piano and Mr. Khan later decided to become an actor and not an elite sportsman. If you are not yet convinced, take a look at the photos of Jeeyoung Lee or the paintings of Chéri Samba, listen to Coldplay’s Everglow and hear the words of Mohammed Ali who was once a conscientious objector who refused to fight in the Vietnam War or watch Kaguya-Hime no Monogatari or the Tale of the Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata who left us too soon. The limit to what we can produce is our imagination says J.K. Rowling, once an unemployed single parent with three chapters of her first novel in her suitcase before picking herself up and putting her imagination at work once again, completing her first Harry Potter novel, and making the entire world a much happier place as a result. From all these examples, as important as the dream and realizing this dream, it is also about what Oprah Winfrey describes as being a “truth-seeker”, the consciousness, the values of truth and freedom and the beautiful and positive spirit with which we try to lead our lives, conduct ourselves toward others and toward ourselves as well.
How Can We Make Our Voices Heard?
The global middle class is expected to reach 5 billion people by 2030 and will be the majority in the world for the very first time in history. But we also need to remember that most of the economic growth from now until 2050 will come from emerging countries and, in 2050, three quarters of global GDP will belong to these countries (HSBC, 2011) with a global population of over 9 billion people, the limit of what the earth can support but expected to grow to 11 billion by 2100. Despite the huge numbers, what some see as overpopulation, can also be seen as an opportunity as this can be the basis on which we can continue the pursuit of the “Great Enrichment” that came about in the Netherlands in the 17th century thanks to “a proliferation of bettering ideas” and the idea of “equality of liberty and dignity” and then spread to the rest of the world as explained by Deirdre McCloskey, author of Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World. “Liberty and dignity for ordinary people made us rich, in every meaning of the world” . . . ordinary people “freed from ancients suppressions of their hopes”. This happened most recently when, in the past three decades, more than one billion people came out of poverty in emerging countries.
With all this wealth created and deposited in not “too big to fail” banks “controlled by stakeholders and not shareholders” as advocated by Gerald Epstein who teaches economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, we can finally have a voice as Albert Hirshman, author of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty once imagined, a voice that “makes civil society possible”. Don Pépé once dreamed of ethical economic relations between rich and poor nations. He should know, he transformed Costa Rica into a role-model for the world. He was correct although more difficult to achieve between rich and poor countries, but this should also be true of relations within countries between those who benefitted the most from innovation, technology, trade and globalization in the past 30 years and those who have been mostly left behind. How do we bring back the ethical dimension of creating wealth, Adam Smith’s “Moral Sentiments”? But also, how do we make the right choices about living more simply and consuming less to preserve the resources of our planet since the model of consumption in rich countries is not sustainable for our planet if copied and implemented in the rest of the world?
Economist Tomá? Sedlá?ek, author of Economics of Good and Evil reminds us that “ethics form the core of economics. It leads straight to the question of the good and right way of living, or Aristotle’s concept of eudemonia. For him, maximizing benefit without maximizing good would have been pointless. A market economy without morality is a zombie system: The robots function perfectly, but in the end they leave behind a trail of devastation. We have to return to our origins and talk about the soul of the economy”. Another important voice we need to hear about the economy and wealth creation is Herman Daly, the founder of ecological economics. In his view, the economy is not the whole but just “a subset of the larger ecosphere”. And even as I am advocating for greater production, Prof. Daly reminds us that “environmental and social costs are increasing faster than production benefits as we grow physically” and “our industrialized agriculture is unsustainable” and leads to “uneconomic growth”. He adds “the only kind of growth we need is the kind that is worth more than it costs us. So you have to have the growth that really increases wealth”. Moreover, he poses an essential question: “are you (we) better off to have more nature and less human stuff or more human stuff and less nature?” Economist Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics proposes a regenerative model for the new century for our cities, companies, products and communities and she asks, “how can we finance this regenerative design so that it gives a fair return to our investors and gives away generous value, whether social, natural, or cultural?” An essential question indeed.
Women (and men) to Save Our World
So we go back to the leadership question once posed by historian Tony Judt in these terms: “coming together to elect someone is not enough, if you then go back to texting and Twittering. You have to stay together, know what you want and fight for it. It won’t work the first time and it won’t work perfectly, but you can’t give up. That, too, is politics” . . . “I have not lost faith in government-but I worry about whether today’s politicians are up to the challenge.” This is not a Right or Left issue and we should perhaps also worry about dysfunctional institutions, as historian Mark Mazower has informed us: “governing institutions today have lost sight of the principle of politics rooted in the collective values of a res publica even as they continue to defend the ‘civilization of capital’”.
How then can we perhaps one day accomplish this “leap of consciousness”? Is the absence of war, especially wars of aggression like the most recent ones --except when we have to defend ourselves-- not a common good? I believe a way forward happens anytime women decide to fight the system by making their voices heard and by entering the world of politics, business, education and health, the arts, sports, science and technology, manufacturing, etc. After all, despite some progress, the current situation described by Scilla Elworthy, author of Pioneering the Possible after thousands of years of the old thinking cannot be more dire: “women work two-thirds of the world’s working hours, yet earn only 10 percent of the world’s income”; “women are responsible for producing 60 to 80 percent of the world’s food, yet hold only 10 percent of the world’s wealth and own 1 percent of the world’s land”; “just 7 percent of executive directors in FTSE 100 companies are female” (it is 20.2% for Fortune 500 companies); and “the only national parliament that has more women than men is Rwanda’s with 56 percent”. (the US Congress has 17.7 percent of women!). Why has it not happened until now? Dee Dee Myers, the first woman press secretary in the White House once wrote in her book Why Women Should Rule The World that “women tend to be better communicators, better listeners, better at forming consensus”. With more women in power, “politics would be more collegial. Businesses would be more productive. And communities would be healthier”. Journalist Sandra Tsing Loh adds, as in the case of Dee Dee Myers, “even bright women aren’t always allowed to shine in the Company of Men”. “But do biological or psychological differences between men and women translate to differences in how women might run countries?” Scholars from the University of Chicago and New York University studying Europe between 1480 and 1913 found that “queens were more likely to participate in interstate conflicts than kings were”. In the 20th century, four democratic leaders, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, and Chandrika Kumaratunga, also waged wars. In more recent times, with data compiled by Katherine W. Phillips of Columbia Business School, only 4% of leaders across 188 countries have been women so the question remains for the most part unanswered. Yet, we would be wise to hear the words (that date back to 1913) of Helena Swanwick, a peace activist who co-founded an organization working to eliminate war and cited by journalist Josie Glausiusz: “I wish to disclaim altogether the kind of assumption . . . in feminist talk of the present day” . . . “the assumption that men have been the barbarians who loved physical force, and that women alone were civilised and civilising. There are no signs of this in literature or in history”.
So perhaps, for the sake of the world, and to avert the coming catastrophe, we have to think and do things differently and we cannot wait. Women already have a strong voice and it is becoming stronger by the day. They are not alone. Young students, their teachers, families, and supporters who recently “marched for our lives” and for better gun control in Washington DC and in many countries, dreamers and other young people who have made the United States their home, and many men sharing these new ideas on gender already have started a movement with the power to transform the world.
Because in the face of the costs of war, seen and unseen, they will be the ones –not the politicians-- to advocate for a decrease in annual global military spending by just 20% to begin with, in all countries around the world, especially with rising public debt everywhere (in the United States, it is 21 trillion USD while the global public debt is at 54 trillion USD as of March 2018 (The Economist, 2018)) and in the absence of international arms reduction agreements. After all, this money comes from our taxes and we should mobilize and have more of a say about where it should be allocated. This is a modest but perhaps realistic proposal that can be achieved in just a few years. It does not in any way compromise security but ushers in a more constructive possibility. This would represent close to 340 billion USD per year (World Economic Forum, 2017) that could then be invested in: funding new ideas and SMEs around the world, and particularly women-owned businesses and start-ups; funding education beginning with paying all teachers like doctors; and protecting and funding the commons. Two-thirds of Americans are in fact in favor of decreased military spending. It is also probably true in other countries, so what is holding this up?
With all these funds invested in SMEs and education and with a global voice that asks for reduced military spending and ending unnecessary wars, who should be taking the lead? It has never been tried before: the solution is having a majority of women to lead the world into the next century, better still, into the next millennium, as a practical imperative. This is not my idea, I am just a student and a messenger. It is from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town and Nobel Peace Laureate. How? This could happen naturally since there are more women than men in the world but we should be pro-active about it. With women and young people entering the political arena at all levels, in all countries, no matter how difficult, and in overwhelming numbers, the status quo will be broken. This would be a good start but other new ideas are clearly needed. The day the United States and other democratic countries –it will be a bigger challenge for more authoritarian or more traditional societies, and for the religious orders-- will have a woman president, a majority of women in the US Congress, as state governors, in our state legislatures and in our municipal councils, and in equivalent institutions elsewhere, things will never be the same again. According to the work of Valerie Hudson at Texas A&M University, “the best predictor of a state’s peacefulness is how its women are treated” and the 5 best countries for women in 2018 according to US News and World Report are: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, and Finland. There is much work to do.
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was the first woman elected president of Iceland, the year was 1980 and it was a first in the world at the time. She said it best when she proposed that “it is not a law, but it is what is morally acceptable. We need women in power –in society, when women have a voice, everything changes”. Another important voice is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian author of We Should All Be Feminists among other books and a “Happy African Feminist Who Does Not Hate Men”: let us “begin to dream about and plan for a different world. A fairer world. A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: we must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently”. Also, “in a vastly different world” from a thousand years ago when the rule of men was the norm, the “person most qualified to lead” now “is not the physically stronger person. It is the most intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes. A man is as likely as a woman to be intelligent, innovative, creative”. So, for the women and men who have not yet taken this step forward, becoming a feminist is a good start. Then, we need to shed the hatred, the anger, the negative ideas and focus on the positive, i.e. equal representation, equal dignity, equal rights, equal pay, an end to violence, etc. and what we can achieve and become “Happy Feminists”. We then need to hear the voice of Anna Akhmatova, the great Russian poet, when she reminded us to live more simply and wisely:
“I’ve learned to live simply wisely,
To look at the sky and pray to God,
And to take long walks before evening
To wear out this useless anxiety.”
After that, let us reserve war as a last resort for when we --or our allies-- are attacked and we have to defend ourselves against aggression and even in this case, “the purpose of a just war must be peace”. Then like Mr. Baussan, let us make lavender and make other great things that people need using ethical investing and ethical banking and create wealth for our families, our communities and ourselves and share this wealth with our teams, our investors, our partners and our customers. Let us study history and stay alert and well-informed at all times and let us also use rhetoric and the written word to seek truth.
And so, I leave you with a message if I may borrow the words of William Astore: “be exceptional, America, make peace, not war”, to which I add, to all powers in the world, great or small, nuclear or non-nuclear, rich or emerging, the G20, the BRICS and others, be exceptional too and “make peace, not war!” Why can’t the next phase in history be about cooperation and not confrontation, about dialogue and not monologues, about organizing ourselves better to make globalization more inclusive and to leave no one behind? Another great poet, Walt Whitman, once asked “are all nations communing? Is there going to be but one heart to the globe?” We all have to do our part and contribute to this vision. Happy feminists of the world, unite, and let us make our world --the only one we have-- a more peaceful, more prosperous and a happier place for all!
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1/ Introduction
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2/ On Perpetual Wars
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“William Astore: The Superpower That Fought Itself – And Lost” by William Astore in TomDispatch on September 12, 2017
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“Dr. Strangelove in the Pentagon – Lowering the Nuclear Threshold and Other Follies of the Nuclear Posture Review” by Rajan Menon
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in War On The Rocks July 23, 2014
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in Global Research September 15, 2016
“Global cost of war reaches $14 trillion, says report” by James Somper
in The Telegraph June 18, 2015
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“The Costs of Violence: Masters of Mankind (Part II)” by Noam Chomsky
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“Tomgram: Engelhardt, Seeing Our Wars for the First Time” by Tom Engelhardt
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“On Seeing America’s Wars Whole” by Andrew Bacevich
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“Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War Will Change The Way You Think Of America” by Benjy Hansen-Bundy in GQ on September 16, 2017
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“Exploring the Shadows of America’s Security State (Or How I learned Not to Love Big Brother)’’ by Alfred W. McCoy
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“Tomgram: Laura Gottesdiener, The Wrath of the U.S. Along The Euphrates River” by Laura Gottesdiener in TomDispatch July 27, 2017
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‘’Report: Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan cost almost $5 trillion so far’’ by Leo Shane III
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“Military Prepares for a Last Resort: War With North Korea” by Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff & John Ismay
in The New York Times on January 14, 2018
“Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War” by Michael T. Klare
in TomDispatch on May 13, 2018
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“Mattis: Leaving the Nuclear Deal Will Help the US Negotiate with Iran” by Caroline Houck in Defense One on May 10, 2018
“Mars colony will save human race when World War 3 breaks out, Elon Musk warns” by Alahna Kindred in Daily and Sunday Express Online on March 29, 2018
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“Does the rise of Eurasia herald a new world order” by Gideon Rachman
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‘’Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – Review’’ by Richard J. Evans in The Guardian on August 23, 2012
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“SCO not NATO’s foe” by Ernesto Gallo and Domenico Giannino
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in HuffPost on February 24, 2017
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“Martin Luther King Jr.’s Searing Anti-War Speech Fifty Years Later” by Benjamin Hedin in The New Yorker on April 3, 2017
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3/ On Lavender for Life and Other Essential Oils
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in Reuters on April 25, 2014
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in Le Nouvelliste on October 4, 2014
‘’Ha?ti: Premier exportateur mondial de vétiver’’ by Tania Oscar
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in TREATT on October 10, 2013
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4/ On Making Something, Anything, Not War
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“Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity” by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm
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“The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination” by J.K. Rowling
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“How a Chinese Billionaire Built Her Fortune” by David Barboza
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“Woman who sold innovative foldable shoes on a market stall after she was rejected by 100 factories now turns over ?1 m in 30 countries (and Pippa Middleton is a fan” by Bianca London in Mail Online on January 5, 2017
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‘’100 LIONESSES: Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu the creative force behind soleRebels, Africa’s fastest growing footwear brand” by 100 Lionesses
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“From Alsace, Sweet Love for the World” by Hannah Olivennes
in The New York Times on April 23, 2013
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“Gilles Marchal, le roi de la galette’’ by Clémence Rouyer
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“Mother who shunned a career in modelling to become a shepherdess feeds her EIGHT children on just ?130 per week and says shearing sheep keeps her slim” by Caroline Garnar in Mail Online on November 25, 2015
“A breadwinner from Senegal masters the crusty Paris baguette” by Anne-Sylvaine Chassany in the Financial Times on April 21, 2015
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“Japanese pig farmer shows the world how pigs should be treated” by Oona Mc Gee
in Sora News 24 on April 22, 2014
“Malawi: Farmer turns tomatoes to gold” by Mark Ndipita
in Barza Wire on November 9, 2015
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“A raw deal: the female chefs challenging sushi sexism in Japan” by Justin McCurry in The Guardian on December 25, 2015
“Growing the global economy through SMEs” by the Edinburgh Group
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“Alibaba Group Holding Market Cap” by YCHARTS
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“Banks just aren’t set up to understand small businesses” by Maija Palmer
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‘’Forbes Small Giants 2017: America’s Best Small Companies’’ by Bo Burlingham
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‘’Small Farms Are Feeding the World’’ by Colin Todhunter
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‘’50 Best Small and Medium-Size Companies to Work For’’ by Christopher Tkaczyk
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“Remembering Animation’s Legendary Isao Takahata” by David Sims
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“Chéri Samba – The Art Of Telling The Truth” by Ngalula Beatrice Kabutakapua
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“Artist Jeeyoung Lee Converts Her Tiny Studio Absurdly Elaborate Non-Digital Dreamscapes” by Christopher Jobson
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“jeeyoung lee handcrafts intricate and imaginative landscapes in her room-sized studio” by Nina Azzarello in Designboom on March 23, 2016
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“The Killing: meet Sofie Gr?b?l, star of the Danish hit thriller” by Andrew Anthony
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“At the end of the Wallander era, Nordic Noir has come into its own” by Hellen Vatsikopoulos in The Conversation on May 29, 2015
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“The success of the K-Pop industry” by Splashmans
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“How the Hindi film industry has found both fans and revenues in foreign shores” by Aekta Kapoor in The Economic Times on March 12, 2017
“Brewing craft beer comes of age” by Scheherazade Daneshchu & Lindsay Whipp
in The Financial Times on October 26, 2016
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“Electric rides: the best new e-bikes” by Martin Love
in The Guardian on March 19, 2017
“These 20 Artists Are Shaping the future of Ceramics” by Casey Lesser
in Artsy on February 22, 2017
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“’It’s a no-brainer: are hydrogen cars the future” by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
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“Can We Build Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs” by David Rotman
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“Ben Domenech Interviews Deirdre McCloskey on Inequality, Poverty, And Social
Connectedness” by Ben Domenech in The Federalist
“Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre McCloskey” by Diane Cole
in The Financial Times on April 8, 2016
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“How Freedom Made Us Rich” by Nick Gillepsie & Todd Krainin
in Reason on August 9, 2017
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“Rediscovering Albert Hirschman” by Robert Kuttner
in The American Prospect on May 16, 2013
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“Something startling is going on with antidepressant use in the world” by Skye Gould in Business Insider on February 4, 2016
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“Americans Are Getting Worse at Taking Sleeping Pills” by Cari Romm
in The Atlantic on August 12, 2014
“Americans consume vast majority of world’s opioids” by Dina Gusovsky
In CNBC on April 27, 2016
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“Greed in the Beginning of Everything”: Spiegel Interview with Tomá? Sedlá?ek by Romain Leick in Spiegel Online on March 23, 2012
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in EarthTalk on September 3, 2015
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in Eco Farming Daily on August 19, 2017
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in Live Science on October 11, 2011
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“Board Diversity at Fortune 500 Companies Has Reached an All-Time High” by Madeline Farber in Fortune Magazine on February 6, 2017
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in the South China Morning Post on February 12, 2018
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in The Financial Times on September 10, 2017
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‘’Financialization Has Turned the Global Economy Into a House of Cards: An Interview With Gerald Epstein’’ by C.J. Polychroniou
in Truthout July 23, 2017
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in Time Magazine May 12, 2016
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Coordonnateur General/Fondateur "HAITIAN CULTURAL LEAGUE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS" (LCHDH) (National Socio-Cultural Organization for the Defense of Human Rights)
4 年Hello Mr Herve j'ai y l'opportunité de lire le document sur la Globalisation, c'est très bien. Mais ?a reste un grand défi pour nous femmes et homme sur cette globe terrestre, tout mes compliments pour certaines vérités dans le document bonne chance et de prudence mon Ami. Gabriel Toussaint de la LCHDH, Ha?ti ?? bravo. [email protected], 774 503 2627
I've read it with full interest for the lavender part and for the shout out to women who are changing the world. I am also very close to the nature so I agree with the fact that we should reconnect with our true being in order to seek real peace. Jim Carrey once said "we can fight the war, play the game. But to find real peace we should let the armor go ".
Meio Ambiente, Energia e Sustentabilidade
5 年Brilliant work, deep and heartfelt. Yes, you are so right, we can make this world a better place. Not just with dreams, but by taking action. Deep inside we all agree. Let's do it!
Jornalista na UDESC
5 年It is up to each of us to start taking his steps toward peace. We have to leave the illusion that we are separate, we are one and in continuous process in transformation.